Burn audio CD (1 Viewer)

[egonspengleruk]

It would be excellent if you could work on the burner plugin.
It has so much potential but never was finished.

Basically MP would jump forward a huge amount if it was able to burn recorded TV to DVD and mp3s to CD. These are features most people expect from a HTPC nowadays.

The Burn Audio CD actually works already (just traced through code to find out how)....just not user friendly. Click on Audio -> Create Audio CD. Now navigate to where your MP3's are and click on each one in turn. You will find that a new box appears below the browser. This is the track to burn on the CD. If you clicked on the wrong track, click on the new button to remove it from the CD

Once you have selected all your tracks click on "My Burner" (crap name...I will redo the layout of this) and wait a few seconds. You will then get a new progress bar at the bottom of the screen and your CD will startup.


Right.....now the next bits. Do we want to burn audio CD's from here, or from MyMusic ? I think MyMusic would be better as you can then just click on a Burn Playlist button. Or do we want a Load Playlist button in MyBurner?

Egon

 

[Bram]

Defenately the first option. The most buetyfull solution would be to be able to select "Burn album to CD", and "Burn MP3 Album to CD". Just like you can rip a CD. I think the way ripping works would be the ideal wa y to do burning. Clean and simple. The only problem is that there are a lot more way's to burn a CD/DVD than to rip one.

I've got the plugin owrking to, now. But you are right. It isn't very user friendly. On the other hand... I'm excited it's working at all!

 

[egonspengleruk]

Bad news on the Video CD/DVD front. Theres no code behind it. So the burner plugin only burns audio/data cds.

Anyone got any ideas/applications to convert AVI/DVR-MS to DVD. Any command line apps we can call?

Egon

 

[Bram]

Could this be a solution? I'm not sure if it can be used as a commandline tool
http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

For ripping (while you're at it ), this might be a solution?
http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/index.htm

edit: Sorry, I just noticed that TMPgenc is Shareware (works for 30 days.) But you should realy take a look at the following...
http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html

It's the best freeware tool to burn DVD's. Very usable. Also for non-nerds (not including myself ). It can include subtitles with easy, and rip DVD's to. But I don't know if you can use it from command line. The reason why I mention it is because it uses freeware encoders for converting to MPEG2. Several.

It uses
* QuEnc -> http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/quenc.htm (Good quality, little slow)
* FreeEnc -> http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FreeEnc.htm (Good, Fast)
* NuEnc -> ? (SLow, very good quiality, 2 passes possible)
* HCEnc -> http://www.bitburners.com/HC_Encoder/ (Powerfull, MPEG2 only)

I think they all work i.c.w. AviSynth in AVI2 DVD.

 

[Ralph]

It would be excellent if you could work on the burner plugin.
It has so much potential but never was finished.

Hi Marcus,

unforunately the potential right now is just in the Screen. As Egon said

Bad news on the Video CD/DVD front.
Theres no code behind it.

That's the pity. I think that's the reason why Plugin was never finished. All option you can see in the screen have to be coded, first.
There is nothing you can drag and drop right now from any other Free or Opensource-Ware.

Anyone got any ideas/applications to convert AVI/DVR-MS to DVD. Any command line apps we can call?

Though a plugin that includes all code that's needed in a .dll would be nicer, I have rather a solution with commandline apps than nothing. So if you would like to make it, that would fine.
I didn't find any free or opensource program that can handle directly dvr-ms files for DVD-burning.
But as Bram already posted there are a lot of programs that can handles mpeg files.

Maybe you would like to use one of the programs that are used in this post:How-To burn a Video-DVD via MediaPortal?
These programs are bbdmux, DVDauthor, mplex, mkisoft, Rejig, PVAStrumento and ImgBurn.
Maybe you could add a dvr-ms to mpeg conversion, so this has not to been done manually, anymore?

Regards
Ralph

 

[mPod]

Just a short info, from the next build on MP doesn't crash anymore if the madlldlib.dll is in the plugin directory. The workaround is not needed anymore.

 

[egonspengleruk]

Just as an update for new users, I have just checked that the MyBurner can convert from DVR-MS to MPEG. So In theory we can now burn DVD's using Ralph's method below
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=10281

Bit long winded....I will keep looking for tools to make this creation easier

Egon

 

[egonspengleruk]

Found it A command line DVD creator under GPL
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
with a GUI (for testing)
http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl

Just downloading it and Cygwin to compile it. Then will have a look at including it in the MyBurner plugin

Egon

 

[Ralph]

Found it A command line DVD creator under GPL
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
with a GUI (for testing)
http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl
Egon

Hi Egon,

DVDauthor is also be used by the Plugin.
Maybe you can rewrite the script to improve the process?
Right now only one file or a all files in a specific folder can be burned. The selection of severeal files is not possible, yet.

All programs used are Free or Opensource-Ware:

These programs are bbdmux, DVDauthor, mplex, mkisoft, Rejig, PVAStrumento and ImgBurn.

Rejig will be used to compress a file if it's too big to fit on a DVD.
Imgburn will be used to burn the iso-file that has been created.

Would be great getting this done.

Regards
Ralph

 

[Bram]

I'm delighted!
Has there been any change in the plugin itself, so far? Because the IMPORTENT part is removed from the plugins description on the main page.

Or does the original method of install only work with the latest SVN?