[mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Edward Rosinzonsky]

I get the following error when projectx is executed from the script:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: initState
   at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphics2D.initState(int[], int, int)
(/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer
-gtk.so.6.0.0)
   at
gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphics2D.GdkGraphics2D(java.awt.image.BufferedIma
ge) (/usr/lib/lib-
gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.6.0.0)
   at
gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphicsEnvironment.createGraphics(java.awt.image.B
ufferedImage) (/us
r/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.6.0.0)
   at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.createGraphics()
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at
net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.subtitle.SubPicture$Picture.SubPicture$Picture(
net.sourceforge.dv
b.projectx.subtitle.SubPicture) (Unknown Source)
   at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.subtitle.SubPicture.SubPicture() (Unknown
Source)
   at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.common.X.<clinit>() (Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String, boolean,
java.lang.ClassLoader) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.
6.0.0)
   at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
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MythTV BurnDVD stopped due to error
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Running on FC4.  Installed ProjectX from src.  The projectX command I
specified is "usr/bin/java -jar /usr/share/projectx/ProjectX.jar"

Any Ideas?
Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Martin Bene
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 10:52 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

 
> By the way, many of my recordings are transcoded to mpeg4... 
> Should I assume this script won't transcode them properly?

Unfortunately: yes, you should assume that. The script not only won't
transcode them properly, it won't transcode them at all :-)

The scripts assume that the original files are mpeg2 in a DVD comaptible
resolution (720x576 for pal and 720x480 for ntsc; 704x576 and 704x480 are
also mentioned in the standard and should work, as should a few low-res
settings).

Transcoding differet formats is on the radar for the scripts, but not right
away.

Next thing I'll add is recoding mpeg2 audio to ac3 for ntsc DVDs - on pal,
mpeg2 is a required format for all players so no problems there. On NTSC ac3
is required and mpeg2 optional; just another way to introduce artifical
regional incompatibilities in the DVD standard. Works nicely on my system,
just need to bundle it up as a tarball.

After that, I'd like to have bitrate reduction using tcrequant - some of the
DVB stations I receive broadcast at bitrates of ~ 7500kb/s which comes to ~
4GB per hour. Meaning: a feature length film won't fit on a DVD as-is.

Once that works I might add transcoding of different formats - no promises
though: my system is DVB only, and I don't currently transcode anything, so
motivation is fairly low.

Bye, Martin