BurnDVD plugin (a preview, supports PAL only)

[tmrt]

...tho the menus probably won't look right..[would only need a slight mod of the plugin for menu placement]
and the comskip 2 chapters is easy..[and very usefull feature]
interested?

Most of the menu dimensions are defined in skin.xml already. With only a few modifications all PAL dependency can be moved into skin.xml. I just have not expected that anyone would miss NTSC since Showburner does its job as it should.

I do not have comskip installed and I wanted to have something simple working as fast as possible. I have seen in Showburner that it is fairly simple.

[kram_0]

In principle it should, but I never tried. I am not very familiar with the way dlls are managed in NET 2.0. It might need recompilation with references set to the 99.12 dlls.

Thanks tmrt.
If that's an option I would love the ability to generate PAL DVDs. I'm using a PVR350 output so I haven't upgraded - I'd need a better video card.

Has anyone else tried this plugin with 99.12?

[-=TJ=-Stefan]

Sound like a very good program I could use. Is it possible to initiate the burn from a MVP? Ofcourse when there is a DVD burner in the server and an emtpy DVD.

I ask this because I have a Windows 2003 server with GBPVR on it and 2 MVPs. All GBPVR actions I do with the MVPs.

[pBS]

Most of the menu dimensions are defined in skin.xml already. With only a few modifications all PAL depndency can be moved into skin.xml. I just have not expected that anyone would miss NTSC since Showburner does its job as it should.

I do not have comskip installed and I wanted to have something simple working as fast as possible. I have seen in Showburner that it is fairly simple.

yea, that would be great..[stick the pal/ntsc stuff in skin] i noticed only a few in the code itself so shouldn't be much to shift..

reason i wanted to do it as native plugin is it looks much nicer, can see the files waiting to get burned also..
and i noticed some references to say.exe in there...hehe
[the extent of my programming knowledge..only real thing i've written..lol]

also, i figured out how to pipe the output straight to cdrecord.exe to start burning as soon as you hit the button.. but more testing needed..

oh and ffmpeg can make files dvd compatible without the split/remuxing, all in one step...cuts a lot of time and temp files..
i pipe mpg->ffmpeg->dvdauthor all in one step, tho curious if your method is any faster....

i'll have to play with it some more to check out the workings...
i haven't had time to recompile, but it should be really easy to mod for a quick ntsc test..next couple days...

TJ: Is it possible to initiate the burn from a MVP? Yes

[tmrt]

say.exe in there...hehe
[the extent of my programming knowledge..only real thing i've written..lol]

I used say.exe for a while to indicate the end of burning, but at some point it started to crash on my laptop. I did not understand why so I commented it out.

It would be nice to have some kind of message at the end of burning especially when one initiates burning over MVP. As I understand say.exe is not capable of that. I do not know how to output a mesage to gbpvr when the plugin is not active.

i pipe mpg->ffmpeg->dvdauthor all in one step, tho curious if your method is any faster....

I tried this, but with my mpeg files generated by ATI-Theater-550 based card I could not figure how to force ffmpeg to insert NAV packets into the stream.

[tmrt]

I modified the code to do both, PAL and NTSC. NTSC is not really tested.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/BurnDVD

I still can not upload the instalation file to the forum. :confused:

[pastro]

I modified the code to do both, PAL and NTSC. NTSC is not really tested.

http://complex.ijs.si/~tmertelj/burndvdboth.zip

I still can not upload the instalation file to the forum. :confused:

Cool. I use showburner which works very well, but it will be great to have a full GUI.

[pBS]

I tried this, but with my mpeg files generated by ATI-Theater-550 based card I could not figure how to force ffmpeg to insert NAV packets into the stream.

mostly it's just about using -f dvd for output format..
here's my full line..

Code:

"%ffmpeg%" %test% -y -i "%~1" -sc_threshold 1000000000  -flags +cgop+ildct -target ntsc-dvd -f dvd -sameq -vcodec copy -acodec copy  - 2>NUL|dvdauthor.exe -o "%dvdtemp%" -t -c %chapters% -i post="call vmgm menu;"  -f -

of course adjust for pal..
it really cuts a lot of time and temp files from the already long process..

btw,did you compile your dvdauthor? can you get cmdline working in dvdauthor?
[i had to use old one]

[tmrt]

Code:

"%ffmpeg%" %test% -y -i "%~1" -sc_threshold 1000000000  -flags +cgop+ildct -target ntsc-dvd -f dvd -sameq -vcodec copy -acodec copy  - 2>NUL|dvdauthor.exe -o "%dvdtemp%" -t -c %chapters% -i post="call vmgm menu;"  -f -

I tried this in the first attempt while playing with ShowBurner, but it did not work.

btw,did you compile your dvdauthor? can you get cmdline working in dvdauthor?
[i had to use old one]

No. I use binaries from DVDAuthorGui and xml files to tell dvdauthor what to do.

[pBS]

it's working...and seems much easier on the cpu..
but not all that much faster cuz you're doing a similar thing the hard way...
i never thought of adding the files manually then using the xml only for the menus..genius!

this is the current ntsc line i'm using:

Code:

start /b  cmd  /s /c ..\ffmpeg\ffmpeg -y -i "%~1" -sc_threshold 1000000000  -flags +cgop+ildct -f dvd  -vcodec copy -acodec copy  -|dvdauthor.exe -o "%dvdtemp%" -t -c %chapters% -i post="call vmgm menu;"  -v ntsc+352xfull  -f -

but i'm having problems with the menu highlighting..it isn't working for me..[even with stock adddvdntsc.cmd]
the regions are active and clickable, but highlighting doesn't move and keys aren't useable..

i'm working on figuring out why..so far the spumux just isn't working right..