New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

yea, my say program uses either SAPI4 or 5 and the one i use is for Vista..SAPI 5.1..
it sounds most excellent! i got it from my streets n trips cd...
i almost put my own synthesizer in there...making a mp3 for each digit, and a couple of phrases would be all it needed...then anyone could have voice without any sapi at all.. yea i'll make those changes for next ver. no prob

but here's another idea...
as each files is added, i make a dummy file in a special directory with the same name, and update another filename in that dir with the current total..
so to see what's in the list, just go to that dir and read the filenames...
all cleaned up on exit and they'd be 0-byte files anyways...
i'm trying to keep MVP functionality...[voices don't work on MVP]
and maybe even append each file's size to the name...
an example of looking in this special dir would be like:

Code:

EastEnders_20070107_23002330.875meg.mpg
EastEnders_20070107_23300000.854meg.mpg
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson_20061230_00070107.1489meg.mpg
The Total is now 4.1 Gigabytes.mpg

doesn't that sound better? i can even leave the voices in too...
would just have to specify a dir that you can get to in vid library to put it all..

any thoughts anyone?

[pastro]

without any sapi at all.. yea i'll make those changes for next ver. no prob

but here's another idea...
as each files is added, i make a dummy file in a special directory with the same name, and update another filename in that dir with the current total..
so to see what's in the list, just go to that dir and read the filenames...
all cleaned up on exit and they'd be 0-byte files anyways...
i'm trying to keep MVP functionality...[voices don't work on MVP]
and maybe even append each file's size to the name...
an example of looking in this special dir would be like:

Code:

EastEnders_20070107_23002330.875meg.mpg
EastEnders_20070107_23300000.854meg.mpg
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson_20061230_00070107.1489meg.mpg
The Total is now 4.1 Gigabytes.mpg

doesn't that sound better? i can even leave the voices in too...
would just have to specify a dir that you can get to in vid library to put it all..

any thoughts anyone?

Thanks for making the changes.
On the new idea, do you mean that you would display the new file on the screen and also use voice - that would be perfect. That would make it much easier to use if you can't have voice.

[pBS]

yea, i think i will...will have to mod installer too but i think worth it..
was thinking about making the subdir in the current dir for easier access and a kind of 'log' of last dvd burnt for that folder..but would leave lots of dirs around, but only 1 per show dir..[tho would take almost no space,0 byte files]
like: e:\mpg\Dead Like Me\showburner\The total is 4.2 gigs.mpg
also, i might have a way to add pauses in the voice for yours, instead of all the commas... will you try it out to see if it works on win2k?
[basically it's just a 'say' line that has some code in the text itself..]
cuz not sure if the code will work on your setup..

[pBS]

well, because of use of <> probably not that easy..
easier to just split the lines...like:
say "dvd burning has completed"
say "thank you"

[stefan_k]

sorry, was away for some time.
(gbpvr is for me basically a box in the living-room, i also do not check the online-use-group of my microwave so frequent).

But real thanks for the little line:
-> i'll add it.

Stefan

[pastro]

well, because of use of <> probably not that easy..
easier to just split the lines...like:
say "dvd burning has completed"
say "thank you"

That will work great.
I can take editing the file to remove the rem say commands, since I don't think you have a way to tell if the speech lib is loaded for win2k. That would add more of a pain. Maybe something in the installer asking whether you have speech or not would be an option. Either way works fine for me.


It's weird that it has trouble on win2k. I have sapi 5.1 loaded. My winxp machine doesn't say the ,,,'s but my win2k machine does. I tested this by moving the say and interop lib to each machine. Winxp is an older version of the sapi lib, but not with streets and trips loaded. Mine has that as well. I don't know if that makes any difference.. Hmmm...

[rbelisle]

So I did what you said in http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=212

But I now get the error:

describing videos

"A vicious criminal [Paul Bettany] kidnaps the family of a bank-security expert"

"[Harrison Ford], forcing him to find a way to break into the theft-proof comput
er system he designed, to ransom his loved ones. [Suspense] Director:
Richard Loncraine Actor: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Mary L
ynn Rajskub, Robert Patrick, Robert Forster, Alan Arkin, Jimmy Bennett, Carly Sc
hroeder"

[PG-13] was unexpected at this time.

So it replaced the {} with [] but I still get the error... Any ideas?

[hansoffate]

where is the burndvd.bat and the dvdburn.bat

I can't find it to integrate into recordings2

[rbelisle]

You can find burndvd.bat in program files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party
Not sure about the dvdburn.bat. Don't see that one anywhere...

[hansoffate]

:EDIT: Yes, I am right, there are 2 dvdburn.bat and burndvd.bat

I found burndvd.bat in the Third Party folder. I still can't find the dvdburn.bat

-Hans