ZProcess: Subtitles srt bug

[fvfv]

Thanks for your wonderful app.

I am using version 1.0.996. I believe is the latest.

This miight not be a bug, but for some reason, when using an srt file to transcode an episode of 24, the mencoder command line added

-sub "D:\\24 Season 2 Episode 19 - 2am-3am.status.srt". the word ".status" is not on the original file name.

The avi file is : "D:\\24 Season 2 Episode 19 - 2am-3am.avi"
the srt is : "D:\\24 Season 2 Episode 19 - 2am-3am.srt"

Now, I don't know if you know this, but mencoder has the command line
"-autosub", which will read a file with the same name of the avi , ending in srt and it will work wonderful.

May be in the future, you could allow us to include the command line on an external xml or ini file, same as Sub's config.xml.

Thanks for your support.

[zehd]

Thanks for your wonderful app.

I am using version 1.0.996. I believe is the latest.

This miight not be a bug, but for some reason, when using an srt file to transcode an episode of 24, the mencoder command line added

-sub "D:\\24 Season 2 Episode 19 - 2am-3am.status.srt". the word ".status" is not on the original file name.

The avi file is : "D:\\24 Season 2 Episode 19 - 2am-3am.avi"
the srt is : "D:\\24 Season 2 Episode 19 - 2am-3am.srt"

Now, I don't know if you know this, but mencoder has the command line
"-autosub", which will read a file with the same name of the avi , ending in srt and it will work wonderful.

May be in the future, you could allow us to include the command line on an external xml or ini file, same as Sub's config.xml.

Thanks for your support.

Not a bug. The .status file is created if you have the 'Use Status Subtitle' checked under 'Experimenting' under the 'Transcode' tab.

It will also supercede the standard srt name. To view the srts using the default naming pattern, make sure 'Use Status Subtitle' is unchecked and 'Use Subtitles' is checked under the 'more' section...

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(Note - in the above illustration, the checks are reversed from what you want...)

I did not want to use the "-autosub" because I did want to specify differently named files, including the status file.

Eventually the status subtitle will be used to show many different parameters used by ZProcess. It can be used for troubleshooting. Currently if the first and only subtitle you see is 'ZProcess is transcoding with MEncoder' then you have the status subtitles enabled...

[fvfv]

Thanks. I did not notice that check mark on the screen.

On a different subject, related to the MVP, under the Transcode Tab, where you give the option "After Transcoding: MVP Use Cache. Resume if able. Does this option give me the ability to "resume" playing an avi that I watched half way before, before having to start from the beginning ?

This would really be pretty awesome, as basically the only way to watch avis on the MVP is to start from the beginning and pretty much refreain from using FFWD and FREW.

Also, based on the same technique that you use to transcode Avis and VOB's, will there ever be an option to watch ISO dvd Images ?

Thanks for a great app.

[zehd]

Thanks. I did not notice that check mark on the screen.

On a different subject, related to the MVP, under the Transcode Tab, where you give the option "After Transcoding: MVP Use Cache. Resume if able. Does this option give me the ability to "resume" playing an avi that I watched half way before, before having to start from the beginning ?

This would really be pretty awesome, as basically the only way to watch avis on the MVP is to start from the beginning and pretty much refreain from using FFWD and FREW.

Also, based on the same technique that you use to transcode Avis and VOB's, will there ever be an option to watch ISO dvd Images ?

Thanks for a great app.

"After Transcoding: MVP Use Cache. Resume if able" - when the transcode is finished, a copy of the fully transcoded file is saved in the backup folder. If you stop the viewing of that file and then want to start viewing again, GB-PVR and ZProcess does not have to start transcoding over again. It retrieves a copy of the saved file out of the backup folder into the MVP Temp location. You can then shuttle around ff and rw.

About ISOs, don't know. Don't think so. An ISO, usually is a verbatim image of an encrypted CD / DVD. I doubt if I will ever try to employ decryption methods. That would make me feel dirty.

[fvfv]

I should have been more clear.

I am talking about unencrypted dvds, like the ones processed by dvdshrink.

mencoder can read them , just like an avi file.

I suppose that Sub needs to implement something similar to what he does with avis, based on the file extension, and give us the ability to put a command line argument and executable in config.xml, based on file extension.

This way the MVP could play back iso files "directly" using zprocess as the back end. But zprocess is already rich on determining correct A/R and cache settings.

[zehd]

I should have been more clear.

I am talking about unencrypted dvds, like the ones processed by dvdshrink.

mencoder can read them , just like an avi file.

I suppose that Sub needs to implement something similar to what he does with avis, based on the file extension, and give us the ability to put a command line argument and executable in config.xml, based on file extension.

This way the MVP could play back iso files "directly" using zprocess as the back end. But zprocess is already rich on determining correct A/R and cache settings.

I'll be honest. Although I think playing DVDs on the MVP is great (and I've never got xDVD to work) I think that I won't have the time to add that to ZProcess in the near future. I've been able to tweaks here and there, but this might be too much for me right now...

Give xDVD a try. It might work for you...