[mythtv-users] [Norton AntiSpam] Re: mytharchive DVD has no visible menu selection/'cursor'

[Kevin Slater]

On 9/20/06, Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> Kevin Slater wrote:
> > On 9/19/06, *Paul Harrison* <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
> > <mailto:mythtv at dsl.pipex.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Neil Bird wrote:
> >     > Around about 18/09/06 18:59, Brad DerManouelian typed ...
> >     >
> >     >> I had this problem as well playing the DVD on my OS X laptop. I
> >     can't
> >     >> remember the exact name of the theme. I think it's based on the
> >     >> MythCenter theme, though. Blue with chapter menus and all that.
> The
> >     >> selection is supposed to be yellow but I don't see it.
> >     >>
> >     >
> >     >    Yes, it's the 'full' MythCenter one I tried;  tested on xine
> >     and a DVD
> >     > player, both the same.
> >     >
> >     >    I tried & failed to find the selection overlay pixmaps in the
> >     mytharchive
> >     > dir. (like the set that came with mythburn);  are they generated
> >     on the fly now?
> >     >
> >     >
> >     Yes, The selection overlay images are generated on the fly.
> >
> >     I have a hunch what the problem may be. Is everyone seeing this
> >     problem
> >     in NTSC land by any chance?
> >
> >     Could you email me the chaptermenumask-1.png and chapterspumux-1.xml
> >     files that are created in the work directory used by MythArchive.
> >     Hopefully they will give me a clue has to what's happening.
> >
> >     Thanks, Paul H.
> >
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > since I don't know how many people saw your request and emailed you
> > what you requested, I put the requested files in a gzipped tar at the
> > following url:
> >
> > http://www.pinebluff.dyndns.org/~kslater/mytharchive-debug.tgz
> > <http://www.pinebluff.dyndns.org/%7Ekslater/mytharchive-debug.tgz>
> >
> > This is for an NTSC recording that was burned to DVD with MythArchive
> > using mytharchive-0.20-131.fc4.at
> > <http://mytharchive-0.20-131.fc4.at>. It seems to exhibit the problems
> > mentioned above.
> >
> > ...Kevin
> >
>
> Thanks, Kevin and others who provided the files unfortunately my hunch
> was wrong.
>
> Neil kindly make available an iso image that I could try and I can
> actually reproduce the problem both in xine and on a standalone player
> with the iso he created but all my DVD's created locally work fine. So
> one possibility is that we are using different versions of some of the
> tools that are used to create the DVD's. The most likely culprit is
> dvdauthor/spumux but it wont hurt to compare some of the other tools to
> be sure. If you could check your versions with mine.
>
> Here's what I'm using on gentoo:-
>
> spumux
> DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype


spumux
DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv

dvdauthor
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype


dvdauthor
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv

PIL-imaging module for python 1.1.4


PIL 1.1.5

mjpegtools 1.6.2 (mpeg2enc and png2yuv come from here)


mjpegtools 1.9.1


mplex
> mjpegtools mplex-2 version 1.6.2 (2.2.3)


mjpegtools mplex-2 version 1.9.0 (2.2.7)

...Kevin
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