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

[Paul Harrison]

Kevin Slater wrote:
>
>
> On 9/20/06, *Paul Harrison* <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com 
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: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>
>     > <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>
>     > < 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
>   

With a lot of help from Neil Bird we think we may have narrowed things 
down to the version of mjpegtools you are using. He downgraded to 
version 1.8.0 from FreshRPM's and that seems to have fixed things for him.

Paul H.