New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

not sure where dvdburn.bat is from as showburner only uses burndvd.bat and yes,it's in the \third party\ folder...
as far as i know there is noone using dvdburn.bat unless it's XRecord or Video Archive..[which i'm pretty sure they converted to using dll's instead of a batch]
prolly just a typo...
EDIT:
i'm pretty sure dvdburn.bat is for recordings2 and it only burns the files if they exist already...
my program does all that for you in one step so no need for it unless you've already ripped your dvd's to a dir..

[stu8080]

Ive tried this recently, but was expecting to have some problems in that i use PAL rather than NTSC.

Ive found however that the DVD is produced and plays perfectly on my very cheap DVD player. I'm now concerned that these DVD's wont be playable elsewhere and i'm just lucky that either my DVD player or TV can accept NTSC signals??

Wherer exactly should problems arise when playing NTSC disks in a PAL country? (ie, do i need to test lots of TV's, lots of DVD players, or both?)

[pBS]

yes, probably will have some problems on other pal players, especially older ones..
the only difference between the 2 are framerate and image size...
NTSC is 480 or 240 pixels high at 29.97 fps...
PAL is 576 or 288 high at 25 fps...
you can adjust the current batch file to reflect these params and it willwork fine on pal...
odds are you've got a cheap multi-standard machine that will play either...as most will thesedays...but older players that are strict in the standard will not play it unless they have dual ability...
on computer they all play fine everywhere..
[so hard to test true pal unless have pal only tv]
i bought a dvd player for 17$ that plays both on either kind of tv..

the relevant bits to edit are the ffmpeg lines and the menus....and one in adddvd.bat in showburner dir..

[rbelisle]

I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but is there any way to troubleshoot what might be causing my problem with the
[PG-13] was unexpected at this time. detailed in http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=227?

[pBS]

hmmm,it's probably the length of the lines...pretty long there...
wasn't really designed to display that much info...[not sure it would even fit on the screen]
hmm...try skipping the descriptions, also, look into the actual text it's grabbing for that show, ar there any other weird characters in it?
[view it's description in GBPVR]
i can replace them if i know what it's choking on before processing..
i suspect more {} or something else with all that extended data...
look for the lines:
if exist info.txt snr info.txt ( [
and add new ones with:
if exist info.txt snr info.txt { [
if exist info.txt snr info.txt } ]

just in case its another bad bracket...
otherwise it's probably something else...
let me know..

[stu8080]

Thanks pBS - Given the price of your average DVD player these days (£30) i wont worry too much! I dont know anyone these days who has a DVD player that is more than a few ears old anyway!

[rbelisle]

Took all the 'echo suppression' off in the batch file and figured out that it is failing on the following line when executed. It looks like it is a filename parsing, nothing to do with the description.

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\showburner>for /f "usebackq tokens=1,* delims=_{}" %t in ('The Pink Panther (2006) [PG] [2]_20070114-05150700') do (echo %t)
[PG] was unexpected at this time.

It seems to not like the bracket at the end of 2006) because if I take out the ) then I get an error that it can't find the file. So, I'm thinking that it thinks the ) at the end of 2006 is being interpreted as the one at the end of the filename.

Seems if you change the batch file and add double quotes around the filename, everything works fine! Below is the section I changed.

if exist info.txt snr info.txt ' `
if exist info.txt snr info.txt { [
if exist info.txt snr info.txt } ]
if exist info.txt snr info.txt ) ]
if exist info.txt snr info.txt ( [
if exist info.txt snr info.txt ; .
if exist info.txt snr info.txt "&" -n-
%paus%
if exist info.txt for /f "tokens=*" %%z in (info.txt) do (call :describe "%%z")
%paus%
rem ***ray change below***
for /f "usebackq tokens=1,* delims=_{}" %%t in ("'%~n1'") do (set titl=%%t)
%paus%

You will see that around the '%~n1', I have put the double quotes. Not sure if that would break things for anyone else, but if not, you could incorporate into the batch file so that others don't run into the same problem.

[pBS]

ahhh,good catch...will have to add that...that's why i put the usebackq part in there but guess i forgot to add the quotes...
the extended show attributes give me fits with all the info and special characters...but i have i-xmltv on one machine so didn't think there was a problem..but i don't rename my files either...
glad ya got it worked out...

[stu8080]

pBS, ive just installed this on my main machine (previous was virtual clone for testing stuff), on the clone the only problem i had was ImgBurn didnt pick up the files and burn them autiomatically (i assumed it was down to VMware though and just burned the video_TS folder manually giving me a perfect DVD)

Now i try on my main machine i notice there is no .IFO file in the VIDEO_TS folder and ImgBurn picks up on this and asks me if i want to continue anyway.

Is a lack of .IFO file normal?
Where would i need to look to spot the problem if so?
If its not a problem how can i force ImgBurn to override this prompt?

[pBS]

yea, need those .ifo's cuz that's the menu's really...
[actually just info about the streams inside the .vob]
the menus are the video_ts.*
you can click on the VIDEO_TS.IFO to play a dvd from start..
to check where problem is, run from command line, and remove @echo off at beginning [or 'rem' it out]
you'll be able to see more and scroll back some...
or run it with "burndvd.bat >>burndvd.log" to have it save all that to a log file to read later..
sounds like menu creation or something in the dvdauthor part if no ifo's at all..
as it imports the mpgs, it converts to a .vob and .ifo of same name...
then the menu gets created after making the video_ts.ifo files...
did you re-install on the host machine? possibly it couldn't access a folder or something...[i believe they run with same user rights as gbpvr]
let me know what the log has in it..we'll go from there..