New Tool: ShowBurner DVD Burning [with menus]

[pBS]

All of them. I tried in PowerDVD, WMP 11, PowerCinema 5 & my stand alone dvd player hooked to my tv. Theres just one marked chapter a minute or so into the shows and thats it. Another thing that happens is if I try to fast forward faster then 2x or rewind... it jumps to the menu screen and I must re-start the show from the beginning.:confused:

ahh,sounds like bad input files...my program only makes them dvd compatible muxed, it doesn't correct any timeline errors or non-compatible files...they have to be dvd specs already...

try re-compressing them...
if they came from a capture card, make sure it's outputting proper framesize,etc for dvd...[720x480x29.97fps,mp2 or ac3 audio at 48,000khz,stereo,16 bit]

most capture cards can produce dvd compatible spec files if told to..gbpvr records them by default from hauppauge cards..[and most others]

usually the files have the 'vobu' sectors in there but they're blank, just spaces for the real info...
then when my program gets them, it fills in that info is all...then can have chapters...
but if the blanks spaces aren't there, it can't insert them...

[bigC]

Oh boy... thats sounds complicated. I'm still kind of a newbie with all this pvr business.

try re-compressing them...
if they came from a capture card, make sure it's outputting proper framesize,etc for dvd...[720x480x29.97fps,mp2 or ac3 audio at 48,000khz,stereo,16 bit]

Can you point me in the right direction? Where would I check these settings or change them? I record the shows in gbpvr with an ati theater 550 pro card. Thanks for the help.

What do you mean re-compress?:o

[pBS]

ahhh, may be an easier way to do it...i'm pretty sure it's a mux problem, basically just make sure you're recording at proper frame size/rate, and if there's an option in ati drivers to output a dvd type file then you should set that there..
not sure don't have one of those..

other than that, to re-compress, go into video library and highlight your file and hit 'transcode' button, you should see a popup listing profiles to use on file..
i don't think gbpvr built in profiles have anything that makes it dvd compatible..
so you'd have to add a line in config.xml...

open config.xml in notepad, go down to <CustomFFmpegConversions> section,
insert this as new line under that:
EDIT: added -ab 128 for bitrate of audio..

Code:

<Conversion name="Make DVD ready"  cmd=" -y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -sc_threshold 1000000000  -flags +cgop+ildct -target ntsc-dvd -f dvd -b 3000k -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec mp2 -ab 128 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".new.mpg" />

and then use 'transcode' button with that profile 'Make dvd ready' on your files...it will create new one with name originalname.new.mpg..
burn those .new.mpg files as they should work fine..

[kaiger]

ahh, you've stoppped it actually...it does take a few secs to do it's work, and no progress bar ,but it's working..
did the browse for directory dialog come up? if not, wait till it does...
[less than 1 minute tops]
it should just pop up a box asking where to put temp files, then one to ask where dvd burner is...then it's done..copying is done in background so won't see anything at first...

I tried again and let it sit for 10 minutes. I then attempted to unclick the 'script paused' and let it sit for another 10 minutes. No browse for directory dialog. Is there any log file produced by the script so I can see how far it's getting?

[pBS]

hmmm,nope not really...just does it's thing,,,
is the showburner dir open? it tries to delete it and if it can't, maybe that's why..
not sure what else could hang it up, it looks in registry for the location of gbpvr, and bases everything off that, then just copies the files, and modifies config.xml...adds a burndvd.bat to the \third party\ dir and it's done..

maybe have a file called snr.exe somewhere? it uses that to search/replace lines in config.xml..
what country are you in? that may cause it..looks for certain language..
is the showburner dir created? try deleteing it if so..

[kaiger]

Well now I feel dumb. I just deleted the showburner directory and it installed great. I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but it installed and I see the appropriate options under Video library.
Thanks

[pBS]

cool, yea it doesn't do much so not much to go wrong..
glad ya got it going...yea, i had a problem just like that where gbpvr wouldn't delete a file from manual recordings cuz i had the dir open at the time...

next version will have a dir list created under your recordings directory listing the files and their sizes..
like:
\recordings\dvdlist\EastEnders.500m.mpg,
\recordings\dvdlist\Dead Like Me.1200m.mpg,
\recordings\dvdlist\total-1700m.mpg

so you can see what files are waiting in cue....even MVP users!!

[jschoef]

First off, I got a ATI card the other day and it came with Catalyst media center...and it worked so bad. After some research and looking at the negative reviews on newegg.com, someone said they use your program (gdpvr) instead. I am very happy they posted that, it is very good.

Ok, now for the problem. When I burn with showburner, my DVD will only play for about 30seconds (opening credits) then it just goes back to the menu. Im thinking my crappy DVD player is sensing the upcoming commercial as the program being over...but im not sure.

So any fixes for that? Can I disable the auto commercial sensing?

Thanks in advance.

[paperchaser]

small problem/bug: files with an ampersand (&) in their names cause the menu generation portion to fail. I just changed the "&" to "And" in the .mpg file and then reran, it finished fine.

[clayton.erickson]

I'm sorry to ask this.. but I don't see how to install this. I placed it in my c:
\program files\devnz\gbpvr folder. I then looked for updateepg.bat but do not have one.
Can you give me a little more detail on how to use this?

Thanks,
Clayton