New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

Just wanted to let people know i've got my dvd burning plugin working very nicely now, and wanted to get feedback on other systems and suggestions....

New Version on wiki is latest, Will include all latest patches etc.,this post is outdated..fake ffmpeg.exe not needed!

New Features: Unlimited movies/disc, 1 menu page per movie, larger thumbnail snapshot, full title/subtitle/descriptions for each movie, comskip conversion to chapters for dvd, 'remove' only removes last file added....
working on: installer and may replace description lookup with sqlite commands, soon to include Imgburn.exe to burn instead of Nero! [free burner]

New Version on Wiki! download here.
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/ShowBurner

Basically it is a batch file that can burn a dvd, with menus created dynamically on the fly..
[even show titles etc. when used with Recinfo.exe addon]
Fast and only the space needed for final dvd structure is needed.. no temp files! [ok well almost..lol <1 meg]
it can be used from command-line or from the Transcode menu within GBPVR if used with my Mencoder plugin...

[!! If used from command line without my other plugin, you have to edit fmpeg.exe to ffmpeg.exe in batch file. !!]

It adjusts for up to now unlimited! movies per dvd,makes thumbnails and adds titles and burns the whole thing if you have Nero installed...
[adjust path in batch file]

It's a regular batch file you can edit for your preferences, and even make ffmpeg re-compress on the way if you want..[check the variables at top of bat file] tho it's a really advanced batch file!!...lol [carefull..]

If any questions or suggestions i'd love to hear from you..
and if anybody can compile me a dvdauthor 5.4 i can make it a bit better..[i have Linux source but newbie at cross-compiles]

planned enhancements: multi pages for menu/unlimited movies..
audio menu, background themes, comskip commercials for chapter points alternative burner..
Am starting this as seperate thread as the mencoder plugin is more of a framework and this is more an end app..

Typical start to finish time is 30mins-1hr for full 4.7g dvd..
[including menu creation]

[pBS]

sample dvd menu
FROM ORIGINAL VERSION v1

[sixgun]

Nice.

I have been looking for something like this for a while now.

Does it shrink the MPG files to fit on a DVD?

Regards.

[pBS]

nope...just adds the navu packets to the file and makes menu and burns...tho if you want compression, it is available... all of my shows are already dvd compatible files, they just need the nav packets inserted [dvd must have] so no recompress needed... but with just a couple changes you can have it re-compress all files added.. just change the &quot;vcodec&quot; in top of burndvd.bat to mpeg2video and acodec to mp2...and adjust the ffmpeg line in the batch to your compression likings..

after compressing tons of files, i've found no acceptable ways to compress to a large degree in a decent amount of time...re-compressing will make the burn process go from under an hour to several hours in total...even the fastest currently available ones are at best 2x realtime [30 mins to compress a hour show] and quality is severly degraded for any real space savings.. so if quality is an issue,don't recompress... it'll only take tons of time and you may not be happy with the end result .. i have a requantizer that can do a whole dvd in 15 mins but it can only compress to 80% original size [20% savings] and has to split and re-combine files which takes a bit of time too..excellent quality for the speed but very limited squeezing...[same method as in DVD Shrink,just simpler]

so just make this line:
set vidcodec=copy
look like:
set vidcodec=mpeg2video
in the burndvd.bat and you're all set..[audio would be passed untouched]
let me know if you have any problems..

[toomanyhandles]

OK, I"m not clear on Graphics Magic. Perhaps with a 'k'?

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/

??


Thanks,

[pBS]

that's it...kinda weird spelling...lol actually it's an offshoot of "image magick" for linux...[which is about same just bigger] would have been much easier if i could have just included it but the uploads won't let me.. so yea,just dl that and install and place the gm.exe and all .mgk and .dll into showburner dir and it'll make menus.. burndvd.bat could be adjusted to use gm.exe from it's standard dir. also...[i believe] just add it's path to the beginning of any "gm" command.. am looking for smaller alternatives...any suggestions welcome..

[pBS]

oh and also get Recinfo.exe utility if you want episode titles to appear above the thumbnail..

[ubu]

it can be used from command-line or from the Transcode menu within GBPVR if used with my Mencoder plugin...

Where is this Mencoder plugin? Can't find it on the wiki.

[pBS]

hmm,thought i put a link to it... try here... http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=13870 it's not really a plugin per se, and was wanting some other user testing before putting it on wiki.. i actually have made some improvements to it as well, but i think that's the current version in first post..[just made batch encoding changes] will upload an updated version in a few..

[ubu]

hmm,thought i put a link to it... try here... http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=13870

Ah! It's there now. Last night only the Showburner zip was showing up. Thanks.