New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

yes, after some playing with it i found a few errors in the list management code...
now it's adding and subtracting correctly..
the skin issue is with the video library's transcode dialog, i don't use anything that 's not already there...so with or without my util there won't be any diff. in skins..[skins can't break my util, nor can my util break skins]
there was a slight problem with adding files i fixed last night...uploaded fixed batch already...

added some more new voice prompts so you'll know more what's going on..

other than that, just check your config.xml under the 'custom ffmpeg conversions' section and make sure that's right..
new upload will solve a lot of the problems in recent versions list management..

[pBS]

Hi all,

just a note from a german user. I have installed showburner yesterday and had no luck to use it. During several tries, I realised, that it does not work with Comunity Skin 1.0, which I use on my system (german XP, language for GBPVR is german). When I switch to BLUE or BLUEMCE, I got a prompt from showburner, how to use the file (not in Comunity Skin). But how do I burn the files? I already have an empty DVD in my drive and all files are selected to the burning list. Any comments or hints are appreciated.

Greetings form germany Peter

hmm, it should burn from the "burn dvd" selection...but if it doesn't you can manually kick it off..
just run the batch file with no arguments.."burndvd.bat"

i'll look into why it's not working for foreign language users...
[probably some text i'm testing for that is different in different language]

manually you can run from command line all options..

[Koenie]

Yeah found the burn DVD selection (stupidly did not think of pushing the right button)

As you suspected pBs the excess quotes problem is a windows language problem. I installed an english version and this works fine. On my dutch intstall it gives the extra "{ before and }" after the regular quotes. will try to find out wheter this is caused by the international options.

If you want to test something to make yr wonderfull litle tool compatible with other language version feel free to ask me to test it.

[mila06]

Hi pBS

I have just tried to install your new version. And i must say: Every thing is just working!!!!!!! I had to burn a show(i knew it would give me some problems - you know PAL).
Is't so fast and so funny with the voices(a little robot-like). BUT BUT BUT it seems like it burns my PAL-shows as PAL !!!!!
I will test a little more, but the first burned PAL show looks fine in a PAL-player :eek:
Have you made any fixing in that area? Maybe the menu-file is in NTSC-format, but the video looks fine.

EDIT:
One thing: It dosn't show the danish chars right in title and description. It looks right in the info.txt files .......

EDIT EDIT: Could ImgBurn automatic delete RW-discs?

[pBS]

Hi pBS

I have just tried to install your new version. And i must say: Every thing is just working!!!!!!! I had to burn a show(i knew it would give me some problems - you know PAL).
Is't so fast and so funny with the voices(a little robot-like). BUT BUT BUT it seems like it burns my PAL-shows as PAL !!!!!
I will test a little more, but the first burned PAL show looks fine in a PAL-player
Have you made any fixing in that area? Maybe the menu-file is in NTSC-format, but the video looks fine.

EDIT:
One thing: It dosn't show the danish chars right in title and description. It looks right in the info.txt files .......

EDIT EDIT: Could ImgBurn automatic delete RW-discs?

very good then..! just a bit of cleaning up the code and simplifying things..
ffmpeg should copy the files over with current format,[pal/ntsc] and i found i could force dvdauthor to try to make the compilation a 352x480, and if it wasn't correct, then dvdauthor auto-detects the size of the movie [meaning pal must get detected as movie type]
[i did this to make it detect the movie size so i wouldn't have to hard code it for every movie] but glad it works for you as well

now just adjuts the menus for the pal size/framerat and you should be set...

i haven't had time to mess with the pal stuff lately but glad it's workin for ya...

yea, the danish chars are a bit of a pain, dos char set only cuz of the nature of the beast...sorry..i try to search/replace them so at least something replaces it..if i have a a sample i may be able to fix it..

and yes, it should overwrite rw disks automatically..
if not there's a setting in the imgburn.ini you can edit for this...
[or the command line itself, i think add /overwrite]

[pBS]

Yeah found the burn DVD selection (stupidly did not think of pushing the right button)

As you suspected pBs the excess quotes problem is a windows language problem. I installed an english version and this works fine. On my dutch intstall it gives the extra "{ before and }" after the regular quotes. will try to find out wheter this is caused by the international options.

If you want to test something to make yr wonderfull litle tool compatible with other language version feel free to ask me to test it.

check the profiles as i had a version that wrote bad stuff to the profile section on some machines..may just need editing..i posted the correct profiles somewhere in this thread..

i think Mila is working on the last bits of the pal compliance, when we get that working we'll share it and i'll incorporate a switch to set for pal users...

oh and if yall want to hear a totally cool voice, try Microsoft Anna...it comes with the sapi 5.3 engine that comes with Vista, but i got it with my streets and trips cdrom and is also available with Nautralsoft's free screen reader...
just install it then uninstall and the voices and engine stay i believe..
it is like voicemail quality, much nicer on my system...
i can't seem to find it as a microsoft download, but the seperate one that came with my s&t cd is only 30 megs..

go into control panel and try out different default voices under Speech tab...

[mila06]

Hi pBS

I have been moving ahead with the PAL-thing. But i have some problems with the menu1.mpg.

I have resized the Texture, highlight1 and select1 til 720*576. I have edited the burndvd to use 720*576 and not 480, use pal-dvd option and not ntsc-dvd, but it will not create the menu1.mpg.
I have send you the same log-bits from, around the breakpoint, both the PAL and the working NTSC, also the jpegs that it creates.

Also the burndvd_milaPal.bat

It says something about some png-files that have 2 colores in the working NTSC-log, but thats where it breakes off in the PAL :confused:

Maybe it's something about the menu.xml ?

I am very close, i think.....

Could you please take a look ?

[pBS]

ahhh...yes not much info from error messages but i think i know where it's goin wrong..those .png's are a certain size and coincide with the menu.xml figures so if resizing it, the menu.xml will have to be adjusted ...[as well as the .pngs]

i think i'll have to make a new one just for pal users..so the green boxes line up right..
glad the rest is working ok..will get to it as soon as i can..
i'm pretty sure that will do the trick..

what does "Tryk pσ en vilkσrlig tast for at fortsµtte" mean?

[pBS]

try changing these two lines...:

Code:

"%ffmpeg%" -shortest -vframes 5 -loop -f image2 -aspect 4:3 -r 25 -i "menu%1.jpg" -i menu1.mp2 -y  -sameq -target pal-dvd -f dvd -ab 128 -vcodec mpeg2video -aspect 4:3 -acodec mp2 "menu_background.mpg"
spumux -v 2 menu.xml < menu_background.mpg > menu%1.mpg

notice the -r 25 [was 30] and -v 1 on spumux...should give us more info about why...
also, adjust the adddvd.bat in showburner dir and all other ffmpeg lines to have "-target pal-dvd"
and maybe you'll be in biddness..

[pBS]

also try adding " -v pal" to the lines with dvdauthor or dvdauthormenu..[including adddvd.bat in showburn dir]

by default, dvdauthor defaults to NTSC for everything it can't detect...and i suspect this is one of those things..