New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[mila06]

i can make a decent menu template for yal if i had a good small pal mpeg to work with..[720x576x25fps, less than one meg is fine...]

Sounds very good!!!

Here you are...... http://www.milaweb.dk/Banjos.zip

[stu8080]

Thanks pBS. Do you think that adjusting ffmpeg for PAL will allow the files to be processed, or will i need to try a different mux?

[stu8080]

Mila - any hance you could pm me a copy of the mux you use at the moment so i can see if that helps?

Ive tried Showshifter - (recordings just dont start recording) and TwinHam cyberlink mux (get error playing back file and need to reboot to watch file). Didnt bother with Intervideo as it reportedly gives many users bad recordings.

[mila06]

Mila - any hance you could pm me a copy of the mux you use at the moment so i can see if that helps?

Certainly I would, but you have to tell me where to look for it. I don't think i have changed the default MUX-settings from my init-install of GBPVR....
Can I find it in a log-file, or in the config ?

[stu8080]

you dont use one, im an idiot!

You only need them with DVB-T or ATSC devices... i didnt notice you used a PVR-150 when i posted!

Bummer, i really want this feature but i have no idea what changed in three months to stop my files being compatible with this brilliant little utility.

[joecool335]

HI,

I am having the same probable as the other guy above. I can transcode and everything else but no burn dvd button any where. I am using the original blue skin too. I don't know what to edit. Can anyone help.

Thanks,
Joe

[pBS]

well, if you've installed it [from the wiki page] and are using 99.5 gbpvr then if you look in video library then you'll see a transcode button...
highlight a file and hit this button and use the 'add to dvd' and 'burn dvd' profiles on the files...

for Stu: you ca run them thru a re-coder to fix them...like say ffmpeg using -f dvd or mencoder using -format dvd and just recompress the audio and see if that helps..
usually DVB cards produce .ts files so the mux is either making them into ps-mpeg style .mpg's or they're still .ts files renamed...
the mux's default settings are probably what's being used so if you can find how to set those permanently then you'll be in bussiness..
i use a little proggy i made with graphedit that uses the ati filters to remux really fast..[depends on how broken the files youu have are]

but i think jsut running them thru ffmpeg with -vcodec copy and -acodec mp2 and -f dvd should do it if it's just the audio...and won't lose and video info..
let me know if that works for you..

might try setting the mux output settings in the app they came with and setting them there...
otherwise, in the burndvd.bat at the top you'll see acodec and vcodec stuff..
adjust the line in adddvd.bat or make those "set acodec=mp2 -ab 128 -ac 2 " and leave vcodec=copy at top of burndvd.bat and see if that doesn't work for all files fed to showburner... [only if you check from cmdline with ffmpeg first]
[note: it will take much longer to burn,but won't alter original files at all..]

[stu8080]

but i think jsut running them thru ffmpeg with -vcodec copy and -acodec mp2 and -f dvd should do it if it's just the audio...and won't lose and video info..
let me know if that works for you..

Yes this works for me, if i run the file through ffmpeg first with the above settings, the output file is procesed by showburner correctly and gives me a perfect DVD.

However if i try to adjust either adddvd.bat or dvdburn.bat i get an empty VIDEO_TS folder :confused:

[pBS]

ahh,yes, probably because of the new ffmpeg options...
[i wrote the line when it was still the old one so it needs to be adjusted for new parameters...]

basically just use the same line as the re-code you did, and put it in adddvd.bat.....before the "|dvdauthor.exe etc etc...."
-i input filename should be the same as is in there already[i believe "%1" or similar], and output is just a "-"

also it needs -f dvd to make it right format...
i'll adjust this better for next release...then should be able to just adjust those [copy] variables in burndvd.bat to recompress anything..

[stu8080]

Thanks, ill give this a try