DVD Burning!

[reven]

Quote[/b] (luke @ Jan. 24 2005,06:19)]anyone have an idea why on one of my dvd players i can't ff and rewind the dvds i make using this plugin? it works on one of my players but not the other. i'm guessing it's something in dvdauthor. is there an option i can change in conver.bat to fix this? when i use ulead to create the dvd it works fine on both players but i'd much rather burn through gbpvr, it makes life easier.

nah you cant change anything in the convert or dvdburn batch files to change this. try using dvdauthorgui (just google it, or goto videohelp.com) and try burning a dvd with that, and see if you can fastforward etc. if you can i probably can change the xml file dvdauthor so it works on your system.

[luke]

i made one with dvdauthorgui and it worked just fine.

thanks,
luke

[reven]

is there any option to export the xml file they use, or any way to see the xml file. i cant remember if you can, and to busy to check now for myself. but if you can can you post the xml file used. the documentation on the xml files to use is really vague, and isnt done all that well.

[luke]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dvdauthor dest="N:\temp\testdir">
<!-- DO NOT edit the 2 lines above -->
&lt;vmgm&gt;
&lt;/vmgm&gt;
&lt;titleset&gt;
&lt;titles&gt;
&lt;video format=&quot;ntsc&quot; /&gt;
&lt;pgc&gt;
&lt;vob file=&quot;N:\temp\testdir\title1.mpg&quot; chapters=&quot;00:00:00.00&quot; /&gt;
&lt;post&gt;exit; &lt;/post&gt;
&lt;/pgc&gt;
&lt;/titles&gt;
&lt;/titleset&gt;
&lt;/dvdauthor&gt;

[reven]

theres not a lot different between that one and the one i use, i dont have the &lt;post&gt; and im not sure if i have &lt;vmgm&gt; and the top two lines, and dont have the format. it maybe the format causing the problem (wild guess here). can you run dvdauthor.exe (not the gui, just the commandline version) using that xml (remove the top two lines and the chapter=&quot;00:00:00.00&quot on a demuxed mpeg file and see if it works
to run dvdauhtor use these commands
dvdauthor.exe -o DVDPath -x xmlfile.xml
then run this
dvdauthor.exe -o DVDPath -T
its case sensitive so you must use uppercase T.

then if you have nero burn it with nero, otherwise just run the dvdburn.bat with this
dvdburn.bat C:\dvds\DVDPath
replace the c:\dvd\dvdpath with the actual DVDPath.

the problem also might be that theres no chapters (not even 00:00:00.00), so if it doesnt work, try burning a dvd (in the plugin) that has a comskip file.

ps i hope you have dvd+-rws

[luke]

ok. goin' to bed now but i'll give that a try tomorrow.
thanks for your help.

i realize now that my comparison may not have been &quot;apples to apples&quot;. the discs that did not FF and Rewind had two shows (two chapters) while the ones created using dvdauthorgui, which worked fine, had only one show (no chapters). so maybe the chapter stuff does have something to do with it. i'll play around with it and let you know. thanks again.

yes, i have +RWs