Re: [Encode2mpeg-users] Problem with ImageMagick and menu creation

[Giacomo C. <enc...@us...>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:14:46AM -0800, Phil H wrote:
> Hi, thanks for encode2mpeg.
> 
> When using the -menu -menufix -dvd options in mpeg mode, I'm finding that the process hangs at building the root dvd menu.  Top shows that ImageMagick's 'convert' binary is running (using cpu), but nothing seems to be happening, other than a 0-byte temp file appearing and disappearing ad infinitum.
> 
> I've also discovered that ImageMagick's 'display' binary will launch from a shell, but not from KDE's menu if I add it there.
> 
> Since I had, er,  a bit of a permissions goof-up with chmod on the /usr tree a while back (now largely fixed, I thought), I'm wondering if this is some subtle permissions issue?  I've uninstalled and reinstalled ImageMagick, but no change.
> 
> Details are:
> 
> 
> $ ls -l `which convert`
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4784 Nov 22 03:25 /usr/bin/convert
> 
> Versions are as follows (on Fedora Core 5):
> 
> ImageMagick-6.2.5.4-4.2.1.fc5.7
> encode2mpeg-0.6.1
> dvdauthor-0.6.11
> 
> 
> dvdauthor has been patched with encode2mpeg's provided patch as well as those from lxdvdrip. I have a very recent subversion build of mplayer via anonymous access, but that shouldn't make any difference since that tree is only for bugfixes on the last stable release ( if it's the same as their cvs tree used to be).
> 

I cannot tell from what you say where the problem is:
it can be a bug in ImageMagick, a bug in encode2mpeg, a problem with your
system, a wrong encode2mpeg usage, etc.

Please follow the instructions available on the main web page when reporting
a problem:

1) use the last release (0.6.2)
2) run encode2mpeg with the option -debug plus the same options that cause 
'convert' to run forever
3) send me the log and debug file

The debug file can be big. Compress it with bzip2 before sending it.
Also you can send the debug/log files to my email address instead of the 
mailing list.

Giacomo