New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

excellent...with batch files it's always something silly...
i deleted 2 gigs by accident by doing same thing...[and not using safeguards]
glad it wasn't anything i really needed...lol
that whole dir situation will be changed for next version..[about a week from now] it will create the dir when it asks you where to keep temp during the install for now i'll just change it to a one level deep dir.named c:\dvdtemp! ]
it also makes a few logs for things like duration of process, etc. but i'll be cleaning all that up soon too..
any requests? [for next version]

[ydekmekji]

Here are my requests (since you asked)
* Be able to change the title on the title gray menu screen
* Some sort of warning that will tell you if it won't fit on one dvd
* Choose from a few backgrounds (with remote control)
* I know you mentioned you are not a big fan of this, but something to perhaps shrink down to fit. For example, if I add four 1 hour shows, it will shrink them to fit. I usually use rejig to do that.
* Finally, what if you had a way to invoke comclean to delete commercials, then add to dvdque and burn

[pBS]

ahhh,thought about all those...
you can already change the title, it's in the batch file..just edit..
selectable backgrounds coming..will make a few templates..
[background pic easily changeable in batch also..]
mencoder can cut commercials while re-encoding, if comskip outputting .edl files also...it also can make them dvd compatible in one step..
not sure of any way to shrink....to fit.. with it but it may be possible...
i hear all sorts of stories about how libav codecs can't do real cbr ever...
tho i remember a 'target size' quantizer option in one of them..

as far as warning of too much for one disk, as it is i have no mechanism to show this to the user given the structure of the framework...since i hijack the transcode menu's buttons,i'm limited to that..i thought about having it create a 0-byte file in the current dir that was titled 'too many bytes.mpg' to let users know..which you could delete or it would when the condition wasn't true anymore...also am goig to put a delete-last menu option for that reason...wish i could just write a stupid plugin to show all that but am still learning...can't even get the dshownet samples to run...

really this is just a framework to allow use of batch files upon the files from the menu...long as the transcode menu is there it will work..
users are free to use it for whatever fancy uses they'd like...
it started with the mencoder transcoder, and now this is an offshoot of that..
i just thought this was the last piece of the puzzle left for gbpvr..no easy way to burn the shows to dvd from the remote...['cept for the My Videos which i couldn't get to work for me..]
and then the question of menus..gotta have menus for multi-show discs..
so unless i get some help with sharpdevelop or someone who could make me a simple interface.... no warnings... will play with the filename thing and see how it goes..maybe even be able to show the whole list of pending files..
[i want to be able to do it all from mvp also...which it currently can!]

feel free to edit and share any cool stuff you come up with..
even the executable [fmpeg.exe] is an auto-it script you can de-compile and edit yourself! all just smoke and mirrors...lol

[ydekmekji]

I suppose this would have to be a plugin to do some of those stuff without editing the batch file.

So in a plugin you can type in your title--WAF would like it via remote rather than edit batch file.

[pBS]

that would require plugin...true...but eventually i might make it just that...
plugin would allow much more...but that's already being worked on with My Videos 5....he has nice menu creation gui stuff so you can do all that...
this was just meant to be a simple version to make dvd's...not the flashiest but it gets the job done...and less stuff to break hopefully...
as it is tho, you'll have to edit the batch file to chnge titles...
[hey,it's better than hardcoding! lol]

helping sis move to new house so more to come next week..
[caught 5 snakes there already! coral snakes and cottonmouths..very deadly!]
new mencoder/ffmpeg compression profiles also will be updated..

[mikeneron]

How long should it take to Add a video file to the DVD? Whenever I do this, it just says "The following file is being transcoded:

Source: source.mpg
Target: target.mpg

There are options on the bottom to Stop or Exit. It just sits on this screen forever. Even if I hit stop or exit and then try to transcode another file...as soon as I hit transcode the same thing comes back up with the previous file already in the source and target.

Maybe I am missing something obvious here? Let me know what logs to post if those would be useful in troubleshooting.

Thanks,
Mike.

[pBS]

how long does it take? normally it takes about 5 mins per hour show...
but that's to start to burn it...to add to the list it only takes a second...

to convert [compress] it takes considerably longer...
[such as the 'Encode Now' or other encoder profiles]

to just add the files to a dvd and burn,just selectfile then transcode using 'add' profile, and then select any file and transcode with 'burn' profile and it'll burn them...this takes about 30-45 mins..
just copying 4 gigabyte files takes quite a while on anyone's system..
and this one does it as fast as is possible...then the burn process is about 12-15mins...[usually about 45 total with preparation for full dvd]
you *can* stop it by hitting the 'stop' button on the transcode...
[exit just exits the dialog]
let me know if it never finishes...

[mikeneron]

I find that I will pick a file, then click on Transcode, then select "Add for DVD Burning" and click on Start. It then pops up the window that it is transcoding this file, but this goes on forever. I then have to click Exit on that and exit the entire GBPVR application. I then go back in and select my next file to add to the DVD and once again exit. I do this until I have the files I wanted added to the DVD. Then I go in one last time and select a file and then click on Burn DVD. It does the same thing, so I exit right out of the application and then can see the batch file running so I know that it works, just not sure why I have to exit the application each time I am adding a file to the DVD. Also would be nice not to have to click on a file to do the actual Burn DVD. Would like to just go straight to Transcode and then select Burn DVD and then hit Start.

[pBS]

yea,it shouldn't do that..normally on mine it just flashes for a second and then goes away...what version gbpvr are you using? may have to adjust for new version. i just updated last night..[to .97.13]
normally it would just flahsh breifly for adding,and stay on for the burn...[that way you can tell when it's done]
and 'stop' should kill the entire process...
see if that isn't working..let me know..

you don't have to exit for the burn, see if it doesn't stop by itself...

[mikeneron]

I am using version .97.13. What files are involved in that process? Maybe I changed a .bat file or something trying to get the burndvd to work. I know that I had to go back to version 6.0 of Nero in order for the burndvd to actually work.

I just tried installing GBPVR .97.13 and then showburner on my virtual machine (no prior GBPVR installs). I updated the burndvd.dat file with the profiles and the path for the dvdtmp/tmp1 folder. I went into my video library and chose a file and then clicked on transcode and it did the exact same thing...just sat on transcoding until I exited the GBPVR program. Perhaps I am missing something here?