New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

yep, the new ffmpeg included with gbpvr v.99.x has broken my utility!
due to some syntax changes, the current version of showburner won't work with gbpvr version .99 so i am finishing up the changes necessary...
hope this one won't change much in future...

have also fixed the size voice so will now say 'less than 1 gigabyte' when total is less than a gig...

and added thumb snap just after first commercial to hopefully get better snaps...haven't added the folder.jpg instead cuz it just isn't the same to me...
would rather have a snap of the actual episode than the same pic for every one..[plus they are pretty sad quality from what i've seen...and often wrong image altogether]

will upload later today after further testing..
[fixed:now accepts long filenames for output dir]

[stefan_k]

Hi,
Just installed Showburner, and i'm happy to report that this worked really nice.
GREAT!

Just one hurdle:
-> I (well, at least in my setup) have to manually (by the normal transcode command) 'delete burning list' after having burned a dvd. If i do not do that, the list will keep alive, and a next 'added-file' will be added to the 1st list, generally resulting in a to-big file.
(and of course you did not want to re-burn the already burned files).
-> and on top of that: if i do not cleanup, but DO delete the show. Next time i startup showburner, it gets stuck because the file-list has a file that does not exsist anymore. Only cure: restart windows (oops).

looks to me that a simple 'delete list' command just after finishing the burning will be sufficient to get this solved. Unfortunately the .bat-file is a little more complex as i am capable of editing, so i did not dare to try it.

I am however a little wondered that i'm the 1st to report this. So, maybe i missed something

Stefan

[pBS]

yea, i left it that way on purpose,so people could burn a compilation more than once... but on further thought, i probably should delete after if successfull...
not hard to re-build the list...and yes the prob. about hanging when files don't exist would be fixed...

just add "del /q %dvdque%" just after the "say DVD burning is completed" line at bottom...
will add this to next upload...

[koz]

Thanks, pBS, for the great support and hard work on this project. The quotes in the dvdburn.bat were the problem as well as the newer gbpvr v.99.x issue. I installed the newer showburner 2.5 and it works outstanding. The only problem I have now is I can't play the burned DVD in my xbox. It plays in my PC's dvd-rom, but not the xbox (my only DVD player right now). Any thoughts?

[pBS]

hmmm,may be something in the new ffmpeg also..will check it out...still trying to figure out all the syntax changes...[mostly just different names for crap,go figure..]
and i couldn't figure out all my old params so i just left enough to make it compatible...probably needs the "-flags cgop" part cuz the rest should be part of the -target ntsc-dvd part...
actually they did fix the long mpeg file seeking for thumbs so still have to adjust for that...should be a new maint. release sometime here soon..
batch files are very tricky when it comes to quotes...

here's a cute little trick, do 2 things with one command: use && to run seperate commands on cmd line..
like: dir c:\ && echo "hello" && copy test.txt e:\


i'll let ya know when i get a better ffmpeg line...

[pastro]

I downloaded the latest showburner v2.5 and installed it and everything seems to have installed ok.
I went to the video library and selected an MPG file.
I then went to TRANSCODE and selected add for DVD burning. I select start and a window pops up that lists the source and target and closes very quickly as if it is done transcoding. The source MPG file is fairly large (It's a 2 hour recording).
I then reselect the same file and go to transcode again and this time I selected burn DVD. THe DVD burns but the only thing that shows up is the video_TS and the audio_TS dirs. Nothing is in them.
Any ideas what is wrong here? I am running 99.5.
I am also running win2k so there are no audio messages.

Transcoding to avi does work, so I don't think there is any issue there.
Thanks.

[pastro]

Is there a way to not burn the DVD but just to create the files in my temp dir from the burn list?
Thanks.

[pastro]

I'm running win2k so I added the speech sdk v5.1 and say.exe now works from the command line. Unfortunately I still don't get any speech from the showburner functions. Is there a way to enable it?
Thanks.

[pastro]

I'm running win2k so I added the speech sdk v5.1 and say.exe now works from the command line. Unfortunately I still don't get any speech from the showburner functions. Is there a way to enable it?
Thanks.

I edited the batch file and removed the rem before the say and now the speech works fine on win2k. The batch file is in the third party directory. I'm hoping this only gets written at install..

[pastro]

I downloaded the latest showburner v2.5 and installed it and everything seems to have installed ok.
I went to the video library and selected an MPG file.
I then went to TRANSCODE and selected add for DVD burning. I select start and a window pops up that lists the source and target and closes very quickly as if it is done transcoding. The source MPG file is fairly large (It's a 2 hour recording).
I then reselect the same file and go to transcode again and this time I selected burn DVD. THe DVD burns but the only thing that shows up is the video_TS and the audio_TS dirs. Nothing is in them.
Any ideas what is wrong here? I am running 99.5.
I am also running win2k so there are no audio messages.

Transcoding to avi does work, so I don't think there is any issue there.
Thanks.

Now it seems to be creating the files correctly. Not sure what happened the first time.