[mythtv-users] mythburn

melliot at tpg.com.au melliot at tpg.com.au
Tue Apr 11 05:01:51 UTC 2006


Quoting Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu>:

> On 4/10/06, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> > I was able to get mythburn to work, but the dvds that it creates
> don't
> > *quite* work.
> >
> > In gentoo I had to use the cvs copy and the install script, the
> ebuild
> > just wasn't working for me.
> >
> > The intro menu shows up, and WOW that is impressive! I know it's
> just
> > a pre-recorded myth video, but it looks great!
> >
> > The menu half-works, but when I select one of the videos, the dvd
> > player stops. If I then hit play, the first video will play
> > (flawlessly), but there's no way to get to the second video.
> >
> > I have some information in the log file that may be useful in
> > debugging. The video I made was 2 hours in length, 2 one-hour
> segments
> > of video 2.2 gigs each. the script decided to requantize to fit on
> the
> > disc, but the end result is only 3.6gigs. I told it to reencode
> the
> > audio in AC3. I also selected the option to have chapter menus.
> >
> > here are some cuts from the logfile:
> >
> > > QSettings: error creating /.qt
> >
> > I'm assuming that is the result of the script running as user
> > "apache", which has no home directory, thus noplace to save
> > application settings. Not sure if that's a problem.
> >
> > > mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/store/mythburn/dvd': File
> exists
> >
> > I assume that is something that it continutes on and doesn't care
> > about, overwriting what's in the directory (since that's what it
> did).
> >
> > > ini load error: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
> /mnt/store/mythburn/temp/X.ini (No such file or
> > > directory)
> >
> > I get this everytime I load projectX, so I assume it's not a big
> deal.
> >
> > > !> missing syncword @  4032, @ 00:00:00.000
> > > !> found syncword @ 4608
> >
> > Somethng funky in the mpeg? it had this error for both mpegs, but
> the
> > mpegs and resulting VOBs themselves seem fine.
> >
> > > -> we have 3 warnings/errors.
> > > Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to > type
> FontStruct
> >
> > Can't find the font? not sure why that is, do I need to have a
> > particular font to make it work?
> >
> > > cat: /mnt/store/mythburn/temp/tempdvdauthor2.xml_1menu: No such
> file or directory
> > > cat: /mnt/store/mythburn/temp/tempdvdauthor2.xml_2menu: No such
> file or directory
> >
> > I assume these are the errors to beware of. It looks like the
> menus
> > aren't being created?
> >
> > I'm going to try a few other options (first creating a dvd without
> the
> > chaper menus) to see if I can get one to work. So far I LOVE it!
> it
> > looks great! I love the idea of using commercial skip points as
> > chapters instead of actually cutting them. It lets you skip
> > commercials on the dvd just like in myth, but you can still rewind
> if
> > it's not exactly correct. Very minimal effort required to get a
> > recording to a dvd.
> >
> >  - Jeff
> >
> 
> 
> More information - turning off the chapter menus made the disc menu
> work. The only problem that remains is that the intro screen for
> each
> video has text that is too wide for the screen. I assume that is
> because the font isn't correct (there was a warning about that in
> the
> log). What font should I be using and where can I set it? Thanks!
> 
> PS - this is AWESOME! I can click movies and hit "go" and find an
> iso
> sitting in the folder to be burned. Great work!
> 
>  - Jeff
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yep -same problem i'm having... (with the menu structures)


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