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

[Paul Harrison]

Daniel A. Segel wrote:
> Paul Harrison wrote:
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>> Daniel A. Segel wrote:
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>>> Paul Harrison wrote:
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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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Daniel
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>> Try running the commands individually to see which part is failing.
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>> png2yuv -n 125 -v0 -I p -f 25 -j '.../work/details-1.png' | mpeg2enc -b 
>> 5000 -a 3 -v 1 -f 8 -o '.../work/temp.m2v'
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>> After this you should have a temp.m2v file.
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>> mplex -f 8 -v 1 -o '.../work/temp.mpg' '.../work/temp.m2v 
>> /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/music/silence.mp2'
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>> After this you should have a temp.mpg file.
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>> spumux -m dvd -s 0 '.../work/detailsspumux-1.xml' < '.../work/temp.mpg' 
>>  > '.../work/details-1.mpg'
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>> After this you should have the final details-1.mpg file
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> This is the point it fails at. I get this:
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> root at mythtv:/video/temp 17>spumux -m dvd -s 0 
> '/video/temp/work/detailsspumux-1.xml' < '/video/temp/work/temp.mpg'> 
> '/video/temp/work/details-1.mpg'
> DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> INFO: Locale=C
> INFO: Converting filenames to ANSI_X3.4-1968
> temp: Unable to load file ().
> WARN: Bad image,  skipping line -1
> WARN:  Read 0, expected 4
> INFO: 0 subtitles added, 1 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: -0.00
>
> Statistics:
> - Processed 0 subtitles.
> - The longest display line had -1 characters.
> - The maximum number of displayed lines was 0.
> - The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
> - The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
> - The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes.
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> All the other files up to this point look good. The temp.mpg file is 
> readable and contains the proper 5-second image.
>
> Daniel
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Try updating to the latest svn. 

I still cannot reproduce this problem? Anyway I've worked around the 
problem by simple not calling spumux when creating the details mpeg 
files - its not really need as long as there are no buttons on the 
details page. None of the current themes do.

Paul H.