BurnDVDX2 support issues.

[pastro]

Pastro: I have sucessfully used burndvdx2 to burn 'Bridgette Jones Diary' to an ISO then used DVDShrink to load and resize from 6.3gb to 4.3gb then saved as ISO then used imgBurn to burn to VD.

couple of thing to note, this whole process took up 16gb of space :- burndvdx2 did an ISO 6.3 and a dvd folder 6.3gb dvdshrink did another ISO 4.3 total=16gb+. Also this was just a straight mpeg (un edsited or cut with comskip). I couldn't get some settings within Burndvdx2 to work; widescreen 16:9, Smsmode and captions. All those options just quit out of brndvdx2 and back to main menu.

the installation of the plugin seemed fine so i don't know why these options wouldn't work but 16:9 is the only one i'd need so any help muchly appreciated.

The options are messed up because of a compatibility issue with the latest wizui dlls. JavaWiz sent out the new dlls to the developers but I didn't test the menu captions changing text using the old method and that problem slipped in.

JavaWiz has a fix and I posted it in the burndvdx2 support forum last night as well. A new version of burndvdx2 is close to ready - read below - and that will incorporate the new dll.
edit: dll in this thread
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...=burndvdx2

I have a beta working of the shinrk feature. I haven't tried it on PAL or 16:9 so I don't know how dvdshrink will react to those. Right now it uses about double the space since it creates the disk and shrinks it to another temp folder then burns. You have to install the latest dvdshrink for it to work. I'll test a little more then hopefully get it out.

[pastro]

Pastro: I have sucessfully used burndvdx2 to burn 'Bridgette Jones Diary' to an ISO then used DVDShrink to load and resize from 6.3gb to 4.3gb then saved as ISO then used imgBurn to burn to VD.

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The beta is ready that does the shrink before the burn. You can have a project with more than 4.7GB allocated and then let dvdshrink transcode them to size before the burn/isowrite/filewrite.

I could use someone to beta test it especially PAL and/or 16:9
Let me know if anyone has a little time to test this out.

[gEd]

I'll give it a go pastro.

I have a number of 16:9 PAL recordings I need to achieve as my archive drive (400GB) filled up today.

So will I be able to create compressed iso files (via dvdshrink) with this version? I was wondering if that might be an interesting (read faster) way to compress my recordings rather than converting them to xvid.

[pastro]

I'll give it a go pastro.

I have a number of 16:9 PAL recordings I need to achieve as my archive drive (400GB) filled up today.

So will I be able to create compressed iso files (via dvdshrink) with this version? I was wondering if that might be an interesting (read faster) way to compress my recordings rather than converting them to xvid.

DVDshrink creates a 4.7gb output if the source is > than that. If it is less, I don't think it does any compression. Will that help you?

[gEd]

perhaps not in the way that I had been thinking (using dvdshrink as a faster compressor) but I would still be happy to test it out (time permitting)

[pastro]

perhaps not in the way that I had been thinking (using dvdshrink as a faster compressor) but I would still be happy to test it out (time permitting)

Ok great - I'll send you a PM with the details once I get it packaged up.

[yoda]

Pastro:
I'll be happy to try out the beta as well but probably not until the weekend. All my recordings are in PAL and will require 16:9 as well.

So just to be clear this will use dvdshrink to compress the mpeg (after an iso has been generate by imgburn) and then automatically pass this to imgburn to burn, without user intervention, from the standard burndvdx2 interface?

If so this would be great for ME :-)

[pastro]

Pastro:
I'll be happy to try out the beta as well but probably not until the weekend. All my recordings are in PAL and will require 16:9 as well.

So just to be clear this will use dvdshrink to compress the mpeg (after an iso has been generate by imgburn) and then automatically pass this to imgburn to burn, without user intervention, from the standard burndvdx2 interface?

If so this would be great for ME :-)

Very close to what you said except it doesn't generate the intermediate ISO it runs on the output from dvd author.
Here is what happens now if shrink is on.

Runs DVDauthor creates DVD file structure in temp\burndvd
If DVD is > 4.7 GB runs dvdshrink and outputs to shrink dir in temp\burndvd dir
Runs Imgburn on shrink dir to burn a DVD or create and ISO.

If shrink is off, or you don't have dvdshrink installed, or the disk is < 4.7gb, it runs the old method.

I'll PM the beta details.
Thanks for looking at it.

[yoda]

Pastro
I have run some tests with the new beta version and note the following:

DVDshrink steals focus and always pops up in front of gbprvr.

If i set it to comskip to cut and set the cuts with the skip tool then i end up with only half a film. always 52mins??? :-(

With comskip off and no use of skip tool then i get the full movie on DVD everything as expected :-)

With comskip set to chapters i get full DVD plus chapter skipping to end of each ad break as expected. :-)

I have seen a couple a errors with cannot find video ts file but click ok and it continues.

I couldn't get the sms mode to work with my Hauppauge 45 button remote, but i haven't figured how to make that work anywhere in GBPVR, so thats probably my fault.

all other option buttons seem to work and function as expected.

I'm no programming expert and i wouldn't say that this was an exhaustive scentific test but aside from the the first two points and a couple of read errors for the video file this version will help those who are now using digital streams and are not easily able to change the size of incoming MPEG files. So thanks for making this plugin.

If you want to see any log files then let me know which one and where and i shall post here.

[pastro]

Pastro
I have run some tests with the new beta version and note the following:

DVDshrink steals focus and always pops up in front of gbprvr.

If i set it to comskip to cut and set the cuts with the skip tool then i end up with only half a film. always 52mins??? :-(

With comskip off and no use of skip tool then i get the full movie on DVD everything as expected :-)

With comskip set to chapters i get full DVD plus chapter skipping to end of each ad break as expected. :-)

I have seen a couple a errors with cannot find video ts file but click ok and it continues.

I couldn't get the sms mode to work with my Hauppauge 45 button remote, but i haven't figured how to make that work anywhere in GBPVR, so thats probably my fault.

all other option buttons seem to work and function as expected.

I'm no programming expert and i wouldn't say that this was an exhaustive scentific test but aside from the the first two points and a couple of read errors for the video file this version will help those who are now using digital streams and are not easily able to change the size of incoming MPEG files. So thanks for making this plugin.

If you want to see any log files then let me know which one and where and i shall post here.

Good input thanks yoda.
On the chapter cutting issue, do you get the correct cuts for the first 52 minutes or are the cuts in the wrong place too? How long was the video to start with.
For the DVD shrink taking focus, the autoit script is correctly running in the background. Unfortunately it brings up dvdshrink in the foreground. Not sure if that can be fixed or not, but I will take a look.