shrinkta has problems with dvdauthor 0.6.14 but ok with dvdauthor 0.6.11

[Arthur Marsh]

Hi when running shrinkta 0.1.8-0.3 on Debian unstable, it called
dvdauthor and produced the following error:

DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>

ERR:  Must first specify -t, -m, or -x.

Downgrading dvdauthor to 0.6.11 solved the problem.

However, the manual page entries for both versions dvdauthor appear
identical and even a comparison of the output of calling dvdauthor with
no arguments doesn't give much more of a clue:

< DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
< Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
---
 > DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
 > Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
5c5
< syntax: dvdauthor [-o VTSBASE] [options] VOBFILE(s)
---
 > syntax: dvdauthor [-o VTSBASE | -n] [options] VOBFILE(s)
9c9,12
<           do not need to specify any other options, except -o.
---
 >           do not need to specify any other options, except -o and -n.
 >
 >       -n skips writing any files, for testing purposes.  MUST occur
before any
 >           other options.
15c18
<               352x288, 352x240, nopanscan, noletterbox.
---
 >               352x288, 352x240, nopanscan, noletterbox, crop.
78a82,83
 >       --allgprm or -g enables the use of all 16 general purpose
registers.
 >

Any pointers that could be passed on to the shrinkta maintainers would
be welcome.

Arthur.


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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Arthur Marsh wrote:

> Hi when running shrinkta 0.1.8-0.3 on Debian unstable, it called
> dvdauthor and produced the following error:
>
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>
>
> ERR:  Must first specify -t, -m, or -x.

Are you able to see the actual command line being passed to dvdauthor?


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[Arthur Marsh]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote, on 2008-04-13 10:10:

> Arthur Marsh wrote:
>
>> Hi when running shrinkta 0.1.8-0.3 on Debian unstable, it called
>> dvdauthor and produced the following error:
>>
>> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
>> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
>> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>
>>
>> ERR:  Must first specify -t, -m, or -x.
>
> Are you able to see the actual command line being passed to dvdauthor?

Not until I run shrinkta through strace - which would be horribly slow.

strings `which shrinkta`|grep dvdauthor

gives:

Please check you have the dvdauthor package correctly
%s/dvdauthor.mpg
dvdauthor
can't spawn dvdauthor process
dvdauthor normal exit
dvdauthor signaled to death
dvdauthor_mpg
dvdauthor -T -o %s

so maybe the last line is the command being used.

Arthur.


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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Arthur Marsh wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote, on 2008-04-13 10:10:
>
>> Arthur Marsh wrote:
>>
>>> Hi when running shrinkta 0.1.8-0.3 on Debian unstable, it called
>>> dvdauthor and produced the following error:
>>>
>>> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
>>> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
>>> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>
>>>
>>> ERR:  Must first specify -t, -m, or -x.
>>
>> Are you able to see the actual command line being passed to dvdauthor?
>
> Not until I run shrinkta through strace - which would be horribly slow.

Another way might be to fool it with a dummy "dvdauthor" script elsewhere in
your PATH, which prints out its arguments instead of running the real
dvdauthor.


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[Giacomo Comes]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:19:01PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:

> Hi when running shrinkta 0.1.8-0.3 on Debian unstable, it called
> dvdauthor and produced the following error:
>
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>
>
> ERR:  Must first specify -t, -m, or -x.
>
> Downgrading dvdauthor to 0.6.11 solved the problem.

Since dvdauthor 0.6.12 there has been a change if you use
dvdauthor without a xml file.
 
> Any pointers that could be passed on to the shrinkta maintainers would
> be welcome.

a command like:

dvdauthor <options> -o <dest dir> <src dir>
must be changed to
dvdauthor <options> -o <dest dir> -t <src dir>

such sintax is backwad compatible, it will also work
with dvdauthor 0.6.11 so such change is really easy to
implement.

Giacomo

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[Arthur Marsh]

Giacomo Comes wrote, on 2008-04-15 04:14:

> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:19:01PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>> Hi when running shrinkta 0.1.8-0.3 on Debian unstable, it called
>> dvdauthor and produced the following error:
>>
>> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
>> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
>> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@...>
>>
>> ERR:  Must first specify -t, -m, or -x.
>>
>> Downgrading dvdauthor to 0.6.11 solved the problem.
>
> Since dvdauthor 0.6.12 there has been a change if you use
> dvdauthor without a xml file.
>  
>> Any pointers that could be passed on to the shrinkta maintainers would
>> be welcome.
>
> a command like:
>
> dvdauthor <options> -o <dest dir> <src dir>
> must be changed to
> dvdauthor <options> -o <dest dir> -t <src dir>
>
> such sintax is backwad compatible, it will also work
> with dvdauthor 0.6.11 so such change is really easy to
> implement.
>
> Giacomo

Thanks, could this change be documented in the dvdauthor man page and
when running dvdauthor without any parameters?

Regards,

Arthur.


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