New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

Simon, try this alternate burndvd .bat file for pal files..
run it from command line and let me know if it fails anywhere..
if no failures, check the output in dvd player if possible..
let me know how it goes...may need to adjust the thumbnails positions..
so far everything works in .97.x GBPVR...

[ydekmekji]

I'm really excited to use this, but I don't get it. YOu have that cool gray thing with the four thumbnails, and I have no idea how to get to that menu. Also when I transcode to burn to dvd, it just deletes the file (or moves it, but i have no idea where)

[pBS]

it should have replaced the original file...so no new filename to look for..
tho it does keep the original, it renames it to *.org.* [for example test.mpg -> test.org.mpg]
you can edit the batch file to have it delete those if you wish..
did you get the newest version from the wiki? i added alot plus an installer..
the batch file is getting cleaned up as i left alot of docs and examples for tweakers..and working on PAL compatibility..[need tester,i only have ntsc]
[only works with NTSC video right now..]
look and see if the original file isn't smaller...if you click on the cmd window when it's running,you can see progress while it's working...

[ydekmekji]

hmmm ok... now where do i find the menu page then?

[pBS]

no menu page to find...it creates them on the fly to put on dvd...
when you choose 'burn dvd' from transcode menu, it takes all the files 'added' to the dvdburn list and converts them to dvd compat. files,then makes menu and creates dvd structure all in one step..
it will leave a background.jpg in the showburner dir but only after creation..

so to burn a dvd, first add files to dvd burn list using "Add for DVD Burning" from transcode menu...do this for all files you wish to add...
Then highlight any file,hit transcode and select 'burn dvd'.
it will then create dvdsrtucture,and if you have Nero and adjust the nero line in burndvd.bat to point to your nerocmd.exe, it will burn the dvd to disk...
it will leave the dvd folder there until next burn, tho burning again overwrites it..

the only time you'll see the menu is if you view the dvd you burn or play the dir it creates the dvd folders in..

[ydekmekji]

i followed these directions--and then poof, it stopped like after 1 min.

There was a dvdauthor.exe stackdump file:

Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=0040CBE3
eax=10102198 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=10102188
ebp=0022ED68 esp=0022ED30 program=C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\showburner\dvdauthor.exe, pid 3404, thread main
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs=0000 ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame Function Args
0022ED68 0040CBE3 (10101360, 10101360, 00000000, 00000001)
0022EDA8 00404A19 (10101BF0, 10101340, 0022EE51, 00000003)
0022EE10 00411FF5 (0000000A, 101001D8, 10100090, 0022ED98)
0022EFE0 61004DD2 (0022EFF8, 00240178, 0022F044, 002469D0)
0022FF90 6100594F (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
End of stack trace

[pBS]

ok...hmmm,i remember only one thing made that happen...now to remember what it was...
ok...so did you edit the dvdburn.bat file and correct the temp dvd file list location? e.g.
rem ******* Below is location for que file
set dvdque=dvd-que

and if it is correct, what is inside that file? are the files you wish to burn inside it? [it's just a text file that lists the files for adding to dvd]
if they're not in there, then they haven't been added...just add them manually if you can..[full path and quotes like: "d:\mpg\temp.mpg" ....one per line]
then re-run the burndvd.bat from command line..
[note,you can add files from command-line too..type: burndvd add "c:\file.mpg" ]


if the files were there and it starts,then on to next section..
does the window say ffmpeg is doing anything?
if you can capure the output of that window[Alt-space, Edit,Mark,copy etc.]
and post the txt i can help more...
sounds like dvdauthor doesn't like one of the files...
also if you're trying to do PAL it won't work yet..

[ydekmekji]

yes the file is correct. It contains
exactly what i'm needing to burn

[xHerbiex]

pBS,

I've been trying to use this but not very sucessfully.

I got mencoder.bat to work from command line but I had to change line 10 which was "goto :%2" to "goto :%1".

I haven't been able to get burndvd.bat to work right yet. attached is a zip where I rem'd out the echo off. Any help would be appreciated.

1st error:
DVDAuthor can't find the temp directory. Is this by design or am I supposed to manually create?:confused:

2nd error:
recinfo can't seem to find the mpg file in the database although the path & file name look correct. Note that I'm using the SQLite dbf.

3rd (and finally fatal error):
DVDAuthor near bottom is looking for .mpg.txt in wrong place I think (but maybe I'm wrong). It's looking in C:program files\devnz\gbpvr\showburner.

[pBS]

ok..it's not able to create the dir i think...dvdauthor can create the video_ts dir,but not the root dir of it so make sure that d:\dvdtmp\tmp1 dir is already there...[i assumed it would make it all itself since it creates the video_ts, but i suppose not..]
so just make sure that dir exists and then try again and let me know..
hoping that was it..