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

[Daniel A. Segel]

Paul Harrison wrote:
> 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.
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> 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
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> Try running the commands individually to see which part is failing.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> spumux -m dvd -s 0 '.../work/detailsspumux-1.xml' < '.../work/temp.mpg' 
>  > '.../work/details-1.mpg'
>
> After this you should have the final details-1.mpg file

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