[mythtv-users] [Norton AntiSpam] Re: MythArchive: dvdauthor problems

[Daniel A. Segel]

Paul Harrison wrote:
> tom roth wrote:
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>> On 17/06/06, *tom roth* <rawdlite at googlemail.com 
>> <mailto:rawdlite at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 17/06/06, *tom roth* < rawdlite at googlemail.com
>>     <mailto:rawdlite at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>>         On 16/06/06, *tom roth* < rawdlite at googlemail.com
>>         <mailto:rawdlite at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>>             the dvdauthor problems i encountered in mytharchive seem
>>             to be caused by dvdauthor.xml.
>>             by patching 'MythCenter - Autoplay/theme.xml' to set
>>             'wantIntro: 0, wantMainMenu: 0, wantChapterMenu:0,
>>             wantDetailsPage: 0'
>>             i was able to create a very basic dvdauthor.xml, that did
>>             not cause dvdauthor to segfault.
>>             now mytharchive finishes succesfully.
>>             i will now add the deleted entries one by one to see what
>>             caused the segfaults.
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>>             tom
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>>         it seems  dvdauthor segfaults were caused by an empty
>>         details-1.mpg that dvdauthor.xml referenced.
>>         now lets see whether i can find whats causing details-1.mpg to
>>         be empty.
>>
>>         tom
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>>     it seems it is caused by spumux. my  detailsspumux-1.xml looks
>>     like this:
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>>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>     <subpictures><stream><spu force="yes" highlight="" select=""
>>     start="00:00: 00.0"/></stream></subpictures>  
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>>     can anyone please tell me what it should look like instead ?
>>     also can someone explain to me what i would miss if i just copied
>>     temp.mpg to details-1.mpg ?
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>>     
> The detailsspumux-1.xml is OK nothing wrong there that I can see.
>
> details-1.mpg is the small details page that is shown just before the 
> video proper starts. Its only used by the GANT and MythCenter - Autoplay 
> themes. Its actually a small mpg created from a PNG image file 
> "details-1.png" is this png file created OK?  Do the other themes work 
> OK?. The main menu and the chapter menu are all created in the same way.
>   
I just checked for my most recent attempt, and while the details-1.png 
file looks fine the details-1.mpg file is 0 bytes. If I try to run 
dvdauthor manually and point it at the dvdauthor.xml file it just hangs.

Daniel