Burn audio CD (4 Viewers)

[mPod]

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?

Latest SVN. ;-)

No change to the plugin itself.

 

[egonspengleruk]

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

Hey Ralph,

Just downloaded and installed it. Works great.
It would seem that whoever wrote it based it on DVD Styler as that was the route I was going down before I remembered your app. Do you have the source for any of it/Can we get hold of any of the source? I have the source for DVD Styler but its written in wxWindows which im not familiar with. It has all the commands for the various tools but im not sure what files it passes around. I can work it out....but if we have the source it would save a lot of time.

Egon

 

[egonspengleruk]

Ignore above post.

I now know what the MpgIIDvd.exe does internally (at least for a single file).

First you need to split the mpg file into a video and audio part.
"mpgtx -f -d test.mpg -b test"
will produce test-0.mp2 (audio file) and test-0.m2v (video file).

Next you need to put it back together again (but adding in extra packets that DVD author needs)
"mplex -f 8 -S 0 -M -V -o output.mpg test-0.m2v test-0.mp2"

Next we make the VOB files for the DVD.
"dvdauthor -o OutputDir -x config.xml"

where config.xml is
<dvdauthor>
<vmgm>
<titleset>
<titles>
<pgc>
vob file="output.mpg"/> Add on < at the start
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

This will now create a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS dir in OutputDir. I dont seem to get any files in AUDIO_TS but the DVD still plays ok.

Next we make an ISO using
"mkisofs -V "MyDVDName" -o mydvd.iso -dvd-video OutputDir"

This will create mydvd.iso which when burnt to a DVD will come up called MyDVDName

Then you just burn the DVD using ImgBurn

Now I know how it all works, I will work on adding this to the MyBurner plugin

Egon


Edit Just realised that you can turn on the Debug tab to get similar info.....but it seems the app uses cPVAS which im not too sure what it does

 

[Ralph]

Edit Just realised that you can turn on the Debug tab to get similar info.....but it seems the app uses cPVAS which im not too sure what it does

As far as I know cPAVS has been used to demux, 'cause some recordings had
problems with bbdemux
BTW cPAVS is PVAStrumento can be found here: http://www.offeryn.de/pvas_2_1.htm

Regards
Ralph

 

[egonspengleruk]

As a teaser to you all, I have just made my first video DVD using the MyBurner plugin

Need lots more work on it before I release it, but not bad for a days work

Egon

 

[Bram]

Not bad at all! Looking forward...!

 

[SiLenTYL]

i really hope progress comes with this plugin (or its moved entirely into "My Music")

it would be great to have a "Burn to Audio CD" option...where we can select a source....ideally all SHARES provided by "My Music" or the current playlist

that way we should be able to get any MP3 or Audio CD, put it in a list, then make an Audio CD from them

what do u think?

 

[Bram]

Contextmenu integration and background-burning would be ideal.

The .wav files have to be deleted manualy now. It would be great if the deletion could be automated, after burning is completed.
Also.... I don't know how it works, but withAvi2DVD it is possible to integrate subs when converting from avi to DVD format. Again...I don't know how it works technicly, but it would be really nice if a subtitle file with the same filename and in the same directory as the movie automaticly could be integrated!

edit: If I understand correctly form the following website, it's possible to add subtitles with DVDauthor

http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/dvdauthor.html

 

[egonspengleruk]

Contextmenu integration and background-burning would be ideal.

The .wav files have to be deleted manualy now. It would be great if the deletion could be automated, after burning is completed.
Also.... I don't know how it works, but withAvi2DVD it is possible to integrate subs when converting from avi to DVD format. Again...I don't know how it works technicly, but it would be really nice if a subtitle file with the same filename and in the same directory as the movie automaticly could be integrated!

edit: If I understand correctly form the following website, it's possible to add subtitles with DVDauthor

http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/dvdauthor.html

Audio wav file deletion should be trivial to add Im mainly working on the Video side at the minute....but will add this when I get back to the Audio side
Yeap....I could probably add subtitles to the video...but where do you get the subtitle file from to start with?

Egon

 

[Bram]

I download them manually from the many differt sites offering them. This site for example -> http://www.divxsubtitles.net/ (good!).
It would be perfect if it was possible to download the subtitle files from withing MP but that, I understood from a topic I've started a short while ago, would be illegal becouse subtitles have copywrite protection. Otherwise it could be possible.

Suggestion: You could implement automatic detect for a file with a .srt (actually there are several extensions possible, but .srt is the most common) extension and the same filename as the moviefile, in the movie directory. Because these are the criteria that need to be met for using subtitles with vobsub (when watching avi/mpg/divx/etc. files). So most people who use subtitles will use it that way, I think. This could prevent having to select a subtitle file manualy and having to write the code for this interaction.