BurnDVDX2 support issues.

[pastro]

wrong thread - sorry

So the comment about CS3 is intended for skiptool? I ran burndvdx2 on CS3 and it did come up ok. There might be an issue with skiptool copying the skins over.

[gEd]

no i mean I added a new post to the wrong thread.

Skiptool works ok in CS2 although buttons in skipeditor are too big and overlap one another.

In Burndvdx2, skiptool crashes out when using CS3.

This is using the Sassari skin. I haven't tried any other CS3 skins/settings yet.

I haven;t had time to study the problem in more detail and besides, I don;t really understand how the xml skin files work.

[pastro]

no i mean I added a new post to the wrong thread.

Skiptool works ok in CS2 although buttons in skipeditor are too big and overlap one another.

In Burndvdx2, skiptool crashes out when using CS3.

This is using the Sassari skin. I haven't tried any other CS3 skins/settings yet.

I haven;t had time to study the problem in more detail and besides, I don;t really understand how the xml skin files work.

Could you post your pvrx2 logs?

[pastro]

The files in the legacy skin directory that are bundled with community3 are old and cause problems when you try to cut commercials. Replace these files with the ones in the blue skin and you should be ok.
gbpvr/skin/blue/burndvdx2/

This is likely an issue with any skin besides blue, since I only check to see if the files are there and not if they are the latest.

[pastro]

a couple of quick points:

It doesn't work with CS3 (can;t recall if the old one did or not). The problem is with the skip tool screen. It flashes up and then disappears back to the menu. default blue is fine.

I thought that the old memcoder process used to run at low priority, perhaps I'm wrong. Anyway it would be good if it did so as not to affect the performance of gbpvr.

still testing.....

thanks for the new release!

In third party there are the following files:

ADDDVDNTSCmencoder.cmd
ADDDVDNTSC169mencoder.cmd
ADDDVDNTSCsub169mencoder.cmd
ADDDVDNTSCsubmencoder.cmd

The files start with
"..\mplayer\mencoder"

I think you can change that to:
start /low /b /wait "mencoder" "..\mplayer\mencoder"

And it will run at low priority.

[vmq]

BurnDVDX2 is a great plugin, but I am currently having trouble burning a DVD with subtiles. I am trying to burn a DVD from two (medium quality) recordings of gbpvr, each of the two ~1h long files has a corresponding .srt file (generated with mpg2srt) and displays the captions in PVRX2 just fine.

The problem seems to be that BurnDVDX2 is not using this files, but generates its own (temp0.srt, temp1.srt, ..) srt files. Two problems here, by comparing the srt files you see that the tempX.srt files are ~5 sec offset (earlier) from the correct srt files, this is consistent with watching the DVD - the subtitles are several seconds early.

Secondly, for some reason, buildDVD.log shows this problem

Code:

INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.

and only subtitles for the first 4 min are in the temp0.srt. See the buildDVD.zip attachment.

Is there a way to force BurnDVDX2 to use the srt files that are already present?

[pastro]

BurnDVDX2 is a great plugin, but I am currently having trouble burning a DVD with subtiles. I am trying to burn a DVD from two (medium quality) recordings of gbpvr, each of the two ~1h long files has a corresponding .srt file (generated with mpg2srt) and displays the captions in PVRX2 just fine.

The problem seems to be that BurnDVDX2 is not using this files, but generates its own (temp0.srt, temp1.srt, ..) srt files. Two problems here, by comparing the srt files you see that the tempX.srt files are ~5 sec offset (earlier) from the correct srt files, this is consistent with watching the DVD - the subtitles are several seconds early.

Secondly, for some reason, buildDVD.log shows this problem

Code:

INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.

and only subtitles for the first 4 min are in the temp0.srt. See the buildDVD.zip attachment.

Is there a way to force BurnDVDX2 to use the srt files that are already present?

There is a value in the skin that tells how much to retime the captions. Sounds like yours is not so far off because the default offset is 5 seconds. The value is called:
<SrtOffsetTime>5</SrtOffsetTime>
it is in:
gbpvr\skin\Blue\burndvdx2\skinNTSC.xml or skinPAL.xml

On my system here, the retime comes out about right and I don't see any error.

Not sure about what is happening with the SRT file. Can you zip up and post the srt file that is causing trouble? Is it generated with mpg2srt?

I do need to be able to retime the captions because when you trim the beginning or cut commercials the srt file would be wrong.

[vmq]

There is a value in the skin that tells how much to retime the captions. Sounds like yours is not so far off because the default offset is 5 seconds. The value is called:
<SrtOffsetTime>5</SrtOffsetTime>
it is in:
gbpvr\skin\Blue\burndvdx2\skinNTSC.xml or skinPAL.xml

On my system here, the retime comes out about right and I don't see any error.

Not sure about what is happening with the SRT file. Can you zip up and post the srt file that is causing trouble? Is it generated with mpg2srt?

I do need to be able to retime the captions because when you trim the beginning or cut commercials the srt file would be wrong.

OK, lets ignore the offset for now. Yes, I generated the .srt files with mpg2srt. I attached the srt files that were sitting beside the .mpg files in the recordings directory and the two srt files that were generated in .../BurnDVD/.

The only abnormal thing was that I used SkipTool and than comclean.bat first to cut the advertisement and then generated the .srt files with mpg2srt. No comskip cut file needed/present for BurnDVDX2.

[SIZE="1"]I wanted to report this in a separate post, but here it comes: I found out that when I use mpg2srt on these mpg files that the time stamps in the .srt files are the same as if generated from the uncut mpg file, just fewer. So I tried to ReTime - but BBDMUX.EXE/mplex1.exe as well as mencoder.exe fail on this mpg generated by comclean.bat. I finally ended up demuxing/muxing it with ProjectX and mplex1. Now mpg2srt was happy again and generated correct srt files.[/SIZE]

Then I started BurnDVDX2, generated an iso and found that in one of the two chapters the subtitles end prematurely after ~ 4min.

[pastro]

OK, lets ignore the offset for now. Yes, I generated the .srt files with mpg2srt. I attached the srt files that were sitting beside the .mpg files in the recordings directory and the two srt files that were generated in .../BurnDVD/.

The only abnormal thing was that I used SkipTool and than comclean.bat first to cut the advertisement and then generated the .srt files with mpg2srt. No comskip cut file needed/present for BurnDVDX2.

I wanted to report this in a separate post, but here it comes: I found out that when I use mpg2srt on these mpg files that the time stamps in the .srt files are the same as if generated from the uncut mpg file, just fewer. So I tried to ReTime - but BBDMUX.EXE/mplex1.exe as well as mencoder.exe fail on this mpg generated by comclean.bat. I finally ended up demuxing/muxing it with ProjectX and mplex1. Now mpg2srt was happy again and generated correct srt files.

Then I started BurnDVDX2, generated an iso and found that in one of the two chapters the subtitles end prematurely after ~ 4min.

Ok I see the trouble. For whatever reason, I thought there was only three lines of captions possible. Your file has a caption with four lines which is causing trouble with my program that retimes the captions. I'll get that fixed up. Btw, if you cut commercials with burndvdx2 it uses mencoder and seems to have an ok timeline. When the commercials are cut I try to fix it up the srt file as well. You might want to check out cutting commercials that way as an alternative.

[pastro]

Here is the fix for the four lines of captions in the srt file.
Let me know if this works ok.
The dll goes in gbpvr\plugins\burndvdx2
I'll update the install also.