My Burner - now with Video DVD burning :) (1 Viewer)

[egonspengleruk]

Hey Noelix,

If you goto the settings page, and click on Leave Files For Debugging and try and burn the DVD again. You will now get lots of details in the MediaPortal.log file....can paste the log into Pastebin (http://pastebin.team-mediaportal.com/) and post the URL to it here. I can then see whats happening.

Egon

 

[egonspengleruk]

Shouldnt make any difference (i think) but can you try normal blue two?

Egon

 

[Noelix]

Here's the pertinent section of my MediaPortal.log file
(http://pastebin.team-mediaportal.com/11182)

I put together a zip of the temp files created by the process, and uploaded it to:
http://www.noelestep.net/noelixDVD.zip

 

[egonspengleruk]

Hey Noelix,

One of the conversion stages failed for some reason. Which caused all the others stages to run fast as no input files were available for them (really need to make it exit on a failure)
Will have a nose through the code over the weekend and see what could have caused that particular error.

Can you try renaming the "Heroes (10_30_2006).mpg" file to "Heroes_(10_30_2006).mpg" i.e. with no spaces in the filename and retry? Maybe something as simple as that.....

Its been a while since I looked at that the conversion code.....been concentrating on GUI updates at the minute.

Egon

 

[htpcMe]

I Have the same problem as Noelix.

I have narrowed it down to this command from the log file:

11-02 23:27:19.593750 [Info.][MPMain]: My Burner Plugin->BurnVideoDVD Class: Starting: Split MPG Audio and Video - mpgtx.exe - Exe Arguments: -f -d "D:\Recordings\VOX_Total Recall - Die totale Erinnerung_200610292215p1654.mpg" -b "D:\2Burn\DVD\VOX_Total Recall - Die totale Erinnerung_200610292215p1654-avsplit.mpg"

when I execute this command from the command line I receive this error ( I executed it in the proper syntax of course):

"D:\Recordings\VOX_Total Recall - Die totale Erinnerung_200610292215p1654.mpg is
not a valid mpeg file"

This error happens only with .mpg files. When I choose an .avi file the program works great and writes the dvd correctly.

Hope this helps

 

[htpcMe]

Just wanted to add, I tried an .mpg file without spaces and the problem still occurs.

I converted a dvr-ms file using the plug-in as well as the convert (compress) funtion in my tv. The effect was the same.

 

[egonspengleruk]

Cheers for that info.
Looking at it now....

Would it be possible to send me a small part of the MPG file so I can have a look at it?

Egon

 

[egonspengleruk]

I cant get that movie snippet you sent me to fail

Can you try the following for me? Download the latest version of MPlayer from http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip
Unzip and open a command window and CD to this dir. Now enter the following command

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 -ofps 25 -o MooCow.mpg InputFile.mpg

where InputFile.mpg is your file you want to burn (e.g. your Heroes (10_30_2006).mpg file)
This will convert the mpg file into a DVD compatible MPG file (puts extra packets in the right places)
Copy this file into your TempFiles/DVD directory.

Im assuming that in your TempFiles/DVD dir you have a Config.xml file from the last time you ran the Plugin (if you dont rerun the plugin). This file is what tells DVDAuthor.exe what files to include in the DVD.
Open this file up and look for "vob file". You will see your Heros.mpg file in there. Change the filename to "MooCow.mpg" (the output file from mencoder).

CD your command window to MediaPortal/Burner/ and the below two commands (changing c:/temp to your temp files location)

dvdauthor -o c:\temp\dvd\DVD_Image -x c:\temp\dvd\config.xml
(makes a DVD file system)
mkisofs -V "MyDVD" -o c:\temp\dvd\dvd.iso -dvd-video c:\temp\dvd\dvd_image
(turns the DVD filesystem into an ISO)

And now burn the ISO with whatever ISO tool you use...e.g. Nero.



What you will have done is to use another tool to process the MPG file (which hopefully will work) and then run all the steps needed to make a DVD (using lots of files from the previous run of MyBurner). If this works for your file I will change the DVD file processing over to using mencoder (thought about doing it a while ago but ummed and arred about it)

 

[egonspengleruk]

This error happens only with .mpg files. When I choose an .avi file the program works great and writes the dvd correctly.
Hope this helps

htpcMe,

Can you try the above as well but change the mencoder parameters from InputFile.mpg to InputFile.avi
This will then convert the AVI file using mencoder instead of the current system.

Do you find this faster/slower on your system?

Mat

 

[htpcMe]

I'll test it out and get back to you. Regarding send a piece of the .mpg file, it is over 1 GB in size. I don't know how I could just send a small piece of the file to you.