New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[rbelisle]

That seems to have worked for some shows, but I think I have a bad character that it doesn't know how to handle. I got the following error when I was trying to burn a movie:

describing videos

"Minnesota neighbors [Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau] rekindle a 10-year feud when
they"
"fall for the same widow [Ann-Margret]. [Comedy] Director: Donald Pet
rie Actor: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Daryl Hannah, Buck Henry,
Burgess Meredith, Kevin Pollak, Ossie Davis, Christopher McDonald"

{PG-13} was unexpected at this time.

Then the batch file terminates.

[pBS]

ahhh,yes those {} brackets mess it up...
if you're using the tv guide xml add-on [either i-xmltv or supercharger]
just got into your xmltv update bat and change those to either () or [] and it'll work fine...
[i have i-xmltv too]
edit this line to look like :
SET MVSwitches=/md/() /mr/[] /m#/[]

Enjoy

[pastro]

PBS, did you release your new version of showburner?

[pastro]

The reason I ask is that the version on the wiki 2.5 seems to have a newer file date than the version that I had. Does it include all the new features that you have been working on?
Thanks for your work on this, btw.

[pBS]

yea, it's got all the new goodies in it...also added a 'say list' feature,replacing the sizer profile...
[it says the show names in list, and the total size after...]
double checked the db error, everything's fine...

[pastro]

Great. I'm downloading right now!

[pastro]

For the new method of snapping the picture for the title by stopping the playback, when will it use this versus the other methods. If the stop is at the end or the beginning does it assume that it is just a normal playback and do it's own thing or how does it work?

[pBS]

if a show is in the playback position table, it will use whatever data's in there...
only if there's no entry in there, will it use the other methods..
so clear it out to use the other methods...
i may just make it look for folder.jpg and use that if found....
i can also add an easy way to make those folder.jpg's from the transcode menu..using same playback position method...
[since only 1 pic is needed per folder, would only have to do this for new series....so less messing with the existing playback positions..

maybe i can ignore any playback position past say,5 minutes? what do you think?
as that should be where most title shots are...
[and geez, if you wanted to resume within first 5 mins it shouldn't be too much bother if it's reset..]
will se what i can do with it...

[pastro]

if a show is in the playback position table, it will use whatever data's in there...
only if there's no entry in there, will it use the other methods..
so clear it out to use the other methods...
i may just make it look for folder.jpg and use that if found....
i can also add an easy way to make those folder.jpg's from the transcode menu..using same playback position method...
[since only 1 pic is needed per folder, would only have to do this for new series....so less messing with the existing playback positions..

maybe i can ignore any playback position past say,5 minutes? what do you think?
as that should be where most title shots are...
[and geez, if you wanted to resume within first 5 mins it shouldn't be too much bother if it's reset..]
will se what i can do with it...

I like the idea of the jpg and the ignore past 5 minutes, although with the prepadding of a couple minutes and some shows waiting till after the first quick comercial to put the title up, maybe that would be better at 10.

Also I'm not sure how to clear out the playback position as you mentioned.

It's great that right now everything runs within GBPVR.

I downloaded the new version last night and did a quick test. It worked perfectly. I did change the "rem say" to "say" in the batch file since I am on win2k. Speech really helps to understand what the program is doing. It is a simple thing to add speech to win2k and below so really anyone using your program should add this.

[pastro]

pbs,
A favor...
I'm using the msdn speech sdk and it behaves a little differently than the winxp version. The only weirdness is that when you have a comma next to a letter such as in the following say "testing ,,,,one two three"
The say program speaks the commas. If there is a space between the last comma and the "one" it doesn't say the comma. In your batch file there are a couple places where I change the file to put a space between the comma and the next word. Any chance that can be added to your master copy? It doesn't have a problem with say "test,,," only say ",,,test".
It's not a big deal. In fact the kids kinda like the DVD burning is complete comma comma.... thank you message. Hopefully there will be others that would find this beneficial that are using win2k going forward.