Demuxing (My videos) not working for me (need help)

[garetmax]

I've tried to follow the instructions for getting the MyVideosDemuxing to work. I've looked through the previous posts and through wiki but I must not have something right.

I'm not using the dvd buring functions in my videos as I have another program to burn to dvds. Do I need to enable these functions in the GB-PVR plugin config?

It looks like my postprocessing.bat is working as the demux_queue.txt is generated with my movies in there.

For my postupdateepg.bat file, I took out the del "D:\temp\demux.ajb" for testing and I did see the demux.ajb file in there. I don't get any errors in the postupdateepg.bat when I watch it, but the demux program just doesn't seem to be working as the files that should be demuxed aren't changed at all.

Here's my postprocessing.bat:
comskip %1
RenameRecordings.exe %1 > RenameRecording.log
rectracker %1 > rectracker.log
demux.exe -a demux_queue.txt %1

Here's my postupdateepg.bat:
cd c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr
PriorityRecording.exe > recording.log
zapimport garetmax amber11
rectracker -purge
Demux.exe -d "demux_queue.txt" "D:\temp\temp.mpv" "D:\temp\temp.mpa" "D:\temp\demux.ajb"
del "demux_queue.txt"
defrag G: -v -f

Here's my convert.bat:
D:\TIVO - Demux1\utils\pva\cmdshell\cPVAS.exe "D:\temp\demux.ajb"
D:\TIVO - Demux3\Utils\dvdauthor\mplex -f 8 -o %1 %2 %3
del "D:\temp\demux.ajb"
del %2
del %3

Are there any problems in my batch files?
Do I need to do anything with the file in the gui folder (PVAStrumento.exe) that I downloaded? I do have the cPVAS.exe file in the cmdshell folder as shown above. Did I even need these PVAStrumento programs if I'm not using GB-PVR to burn dvd's?
Do I need to download any other programs (DVDDecripter?, etc.)

I really want this demuxing to work so it will cut down time on dvd burning as I record a lot of movies.

What am I missing? :confused:
Thanks

[reven]

your convert.bat file should look like this

Code:

"D:\TIVO - Demux1\utils\pva\cmdshell\cPVAS.exe" "D:\temp\demux.ajb"
"D:\TIVO - Demux3\Utils\dvdauthor\mplex.exe" -f 8 -o %1 %2 %3
del "D:\temp\demux.ajb"
del %2
del %3

[garetmax]

I'm getting closer but still not there yet. :confused:

Those quotes in the convert.bat definitely help as another dos window pops up now and shows the file as demuxing. The files demux.ajb, temp.mpa, and temp.mpv are in the temp directory in my harddrive while its demuxing.

I watched the dos demux window and right before it went away another dos window popped up real fast but went away so quickly that I couldn't see what it showed.

I didn't have the dvdauthor program on my harddrive but I'm thinking maybe I needed that so I installed it. When looking at the files when unzipping the dvdauthor rar file, there are no associations for them. For example, the readme file just listed it as a "file" and not something like a worddoc or notepad doc. I don't see any executable files in dvdauthor either. All I see are files of these types, "file", "AM file", "IN file", "M4 file", "AC file", "Spec File". There are also 3 folders in there, "autotools", "doc", and "src" with more files in them. Is this correct?

Do I need the program mjpegtools for the multiplexing? What else am I missing or doing wrong? :confused:

[reven]

just try to get it working in dos. ie
try

Code:

C:\gbpvr\>demux.exe -a demux_queue.txt "D:\recordings\someshow\show.mpg"

which will make a demux queue
then try

Code:

C:\gbpvr\>demux.exe -d demux_queue.txt

which will create the ajb file (which pva needs) and execute the conversion.bat file

just edit out all the "del" lines so the files are left. so keep the .ajb file, and just run each line individually in the conversion.bat file until you find the problem.

[garetmax]

After I created the demux.ajb, temp.mpa, and temp.mpv files, I watched the convert.bat program from dos.

It at first looked like it was running the demuxing program again but it didn't open another dos window.

There were a some differences though.

I do see a couple alerts:
"Alert > loglevel = 2" (towards the top of the text)
"alert > audio 1: 21 audio frames missing at EOF (this was listed right after the listing of the new mpeg audio and mpeg video files)
Is this a problem or not? What does this mean?

More statistics are listed then it shows it running the mplex command from the convert batch file and says ..."dvdauthor\mplex is not recognized as an internal or external command, program, or batch file".

Looks like I need that mplex file in the dvdauthor which isn't in my files that were downloaded. There is an "install" file in there but it is only a "file" with no association to it. I'm not sure what to do next. I'm thinking I need to run that install file and it will make the necessary files that I need (mplex) but I don't know if I'm going in the right direction or what to do next. :confused:

Thanks for your help

[reven]

download dvdauthorgui it has most tools you need, just google it.

[garetmax]

Thanks Reven,

I'll try tomorrow.

[garetmax]

Reven,

I finally got it working.

I'm not exactly sure how I did it, but I ended up loading all of the dvd burning software for my videos and now it works. It seems that more than just the requirement for the PVAStrumento program is required as listed on the wiki.

The wiki site, dummies guide, also shows that the convert.bat file without the quotes around the programs and directories for cpvas.exe and mplex.exe. When installing the my videos program, the quotes are already missing from convert.bat also. I had to put quotes in my file for the demuxing to work.

Will you update the wiki documentation and the convert.bat files if those were truly the culprits and issues.

[reven]

quote from the wiki (my videos demuxing/remuxing tool).

Support
Common Problems

For filename you should have “” around them, if you a file called pva.exe in a directory C:\my utils\pva.exe, in order for it to work in the .bat file it must be like this:
”C:\my utils\pva.exe” -arguments %1 %2

and every where else the .bat files look fine, you only need quotes around the names if there is a space in the name somewhere. the "dvdburn.bat" on the dummies guide shows quotes around dvddecrypter, so its good enough how it is; i cant be bothered taking any more screenshots.

[garetmax]

Your right - I see that now. I missed it.


Thanks Reven