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Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] Audio in dialogmovie

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

That is the place you can add extra audio to your video file. An extra 
language or an editors commentary for example.
Note that when you click on add, you can select an audio file. Then, the 
'assign audio settings' dialoge opens. There you'll need to choose a new 
language because you can not select track number 0. By adding a new 
language you automatically add a new audio track (starting with 1).

Hope this makes sense? I never used it because I normally add all audio 
tracks before I start author a dvd.

Blessings,
Jurgen

On 29-11-2020 21:11, vm...@ar... wrote:
> What is Audio for in:
>
> SourceToolBar -> All Sources -> Properties ... -> Audio/Subtitle -> Audio -> Add
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[QDVDAuthor-users] Audio in dialogmovie

[<vm...@ar...>]

What is Audio for in:

SourceToolBar -> All Sources -> Properties ... -> Audio/Subtitle -> Audio -> Add

[QDVDAuthor-users] Welcom to the list

[<vm...@ar...>]

Hello,

welcome to this list.

Roland :)

[QDVDAuthor-users] Qt5 translation of QDVDAuthor

[<vm...@ar...>]

There is a Qt5 translation of QDVDAuthor:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/qdvd

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] pretty weird navigation problem

[Varol O. <va...@mo...>]

Cool,

I am glad it worked out. Thanks for sharing.

Varol :)

On 07/24/2014 05:24 PM, Jurgen wrote:
> Oh well...
> nu there are 15 buttons in a grid and they are set up to wrap from 
> left to right and top to bottom. They are defined in order along the 
> first row, then the second, then the
> After some reading and a remark from my wife (what should I do without 
> her) who said that were a lot of button on one submenu I decided to 
> try less...
> Turns out that a 16:9 menu can hold less buttons than a 4:3 menu.
>
> Later I found this webpage about the problem:
> http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/298871-More-than-12-buttons-with-dvdauthor
>
> So, problem solved.
>
> Jurgen Hofmann
>
>
>
>
> On 07/23/2014 11:49 PM, Jurgen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Working on our latest family project I discovered a weird problem.
>>
>> The project has two videos, one mainmenu and four submenus.
>> Everything goes fine and I am able to watch the DVD... but...
>> When I go to the submenu I am able to select all button except the 
>> last two or three ('mainmenu', 'previous submenu' and next submenu').
>>
>> I have already tried this several times with other projects and they 
>> all worked well.
>>
>> I will attach the feedback...
>>
>> Blessings,
>> Jurgen Hofmann
>
>

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] pretty weird navigation problem

[Varol O. <va...@mo...>]

I looked at the dvdauthor.xml and from what I can peek, it looks ok to me.

... Submenu
<button name="14_Button_14" > { g4=0; button=1024;  g3=24; jump menu 
entry root; } </button>

--- Mainmenu
                 if ( g3 eq 24 ) jump menu 4;

There is a limit of 99 instructions per VOB I believe. Maybe you hit this ?

were you able to get it to work ?
It may be interesting to see if the buttons work when you remove some of 
the other buttons in the sub-menu, to shrink the jump table.

Varol Okan


On 07/23/2014 05:49 PM, Jurgen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Working on our latest family project I discovered a weird problem.
>
> The project has two videos, one mainmenu and four submenus.
> Everything goes fine and I am able to watch the DVD... but...
> When I go to the submenu I am able to select all button except the 
> last two or three ('mainmenu', 'previous submenu' and next submenu').
>
> I have already tried this several times with other projects and they 
> all worked well.
>
> I will attach the feedback...
>
> Blessings,
> Jurgen Hofmann

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] pretty weird navigation problem

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Oh well...

After some reading and a remark from my wife (what should I do without 
her) who said that were a lot of button on one submenu I decided to try 
less...
Turns out that a 16:9 menu can hold less buttons than a 4:3 menu.

Later I found this webpage about the problem:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/298871-More-than-12-buttons-with-dvdauthor

So, problem solved.

Jurgen Hofmann




On 07/23/2014 11:49 PM, Jurgen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Working on our latest family project I discovered a weird problem.
>
> The project has two videos, one mainmenu and four submenus.
> Everything goes fine and I am able to watch the DVD... but...
> When I go to the submenu I am able to select all button except the 
> last two or three ('mainmenu', 'previous submenu' and next submenu').
>
> I have already tried this several times with other projects and they 
> all worked well.
>
> I will attach the feedback...
>
> Blessings,
> Jurgen Hofmann

[QDVDAuthor-users] QT5 port ?

[wireless <wir...@ta...>]

Hello Team qdvdauthor,


I remember some time ago, a port to qt4 was discussed. Is there 
sufficient interest in a port to QT5?

Surely this would depend on Varol's disposition and or participation
in such an effort.....


curiously,
James

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] multiple audio

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Hi Varol,

Looking at the dvdauthor.xml file I noticed that only one language is 
specified:

<titles>
    <video format="pal" aspect="16:9" resolution="720x576" />
    <audio lang="EN" />
    <pgc>
     <pre>audio=0; </pre>
     <vob file="output.vob" pause="0" chapters="00:00:00.000" />
     <post> if ( g5 gt 0 )  {
         if ( g5 eq 11 ) { g5=0; g2=1; g3=5; call vmgm menu entry title; }
         call vmgm menu entry title;
     }
      { g2=1; g3=5; call vmgm menu entry title; } </post>
    </pgc>
   </titles>

It is doing this per title which basically means that all the videos in 
the same title are labelled with that language tag?
So how do I solve this? Do I need to assign all videos to a different 
title? (knowing that on e can assign 99 titles in 1 titleset)

Hope to hear more,
Jurgen

On 07/08/2014 02:27 PM, Varol Okan wrote:
> On 07/06/2014 06:22 PM, Jurgen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am making a promotion DVD wit many short videos.
>> One of the video contains three audio tracks (English, Dutch, 
>> Malagasy/Bara).
>> The three tracks are not picked up in Qdvdauthor so this is what I 
>> did in the xml (in bold):
>>
>> <SourceEntry Pause="0" DisplayName="[15] - output" >
>> *<Audio AudioNumber="0" Lang="EN" />**
>> **<Audio AudioNumber="1" Lang="NL" />**
>> **<Audio AudioNumber="2" Lang="MG" />*
>> <SourceInfo Pause="0" BPS="192000" Size="2.04794GB" Bits="0" 
>> Format="pal" Titleset="3" Ratio="16:9" FPS="25" Length="02:07:53" 
>> AutoTranscode="false" AudioFormat="Stereo" MetaSubtitles="false" 
>> HasAudio="true" MSecPreview="79300" Sample="48000" 
>> Resolution="720x576" Status="Ok" >
>> <File>output.vob</File>
>> <Properties Pause="0" PostCommands=" call vmgm menu 5;" 
>> PreCommands="audio=0; " />
>> <Chapters>00:00:00.000</Chapters>
>> </SourceInfo>
>> </SourceEntry>
>>
>> However, the final result is that only the first (set in the xml) 
>> language is visible when I play the DVD and play around with the 
>> audio button on my remote.
>> Is there a way to make my DVD thingy obey my commands... Like "yes 
>> jurgen, your will is my command." ;)
>>
>> Jurgen
>
> It's been a long time, however I thought this used to work just fine.
>
> The place to start looking into this would be the generated 
> dvdauthor.xml file which is fed to dvdauthor.
> Ps. Sorry I forgot to add the yes-I-obey Jurgen button ;)
>
> Varol :)

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] Mask on a video in menu

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Great,

Thank you for your reply.
I noticed that my mask did not have a transparent part... So that was a 
bit dull :(

The menu sound is a logic choice. I have split up the video and the 
audio and solved it indeed by putting the sound separately under the menu.

So thanks again,
Jurgen

On 07/08/2014 02:22 PM, Varol Okan wrote:
> On 07/02/2014 06:18 AM, Jurgen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Two short questions.
>> Firstly, does anybody know whether I can use the mask option on a 
>> video (placed on a menu).
>> I know that it works on an image but cannot figure out whether or not 
>> it works on a menu-video.
>>
>> Second question:
>> When I use a video on the menu I do not hear the sound. So I need to 
>> put the sound separately under the menu, is this the only way?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Jurgen
> Jurgen,
>
> if I remember correctly movie objects ( buttons ) should handle masks 
> ( aka overlays ) properly.
> void MovieObject::drawContents (QPainter *pPainter, int 
> iRenderFrameNumber, int iTotalFramesToRender)
> {
>   if ( m_pOverlay )  {
>        m_pOverlay->drawContents ( pPainter, iRenderFrameNumber, 
> iTotalFramesToRender );
>        return;
>   }
>
> ...
>
> Sound is extra. This is because most often you want to create a silent 
> menu or have one audio track and many short videos stitched together.
>
> Varol :)
>

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] Mask on a video in menu

[Varol O. <va...@mo...>]

On 07/02/2014 06:18 AM, Jurgen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Two short questions.
> Firstly, does anybody know whether I can use the mask option on a 
> video (placed on a menu).
> I know that it works on an image but cannot figure out whether or not 
> it works on a menu-video.
>
> Second question:
> When I use a video on the menu I do not hear the sound. So I need to 
> put the sound separately under the menu, is this the only way?
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Jurgen
Jurgen,

if I remember correctly movie objects ( buttons ) should handle masks ( 
aka overlays ) properly.
void MovieObject::drawContents (QPainter *pPainter, int 
iRenderFrameNumber, int iTotalFramesToRender)
{
   if ( m_pOverlay )  {
        m_pOverlay->drawContents ( pPainter, iRenderFrameNumber, 
iTotalFramesToRender );
        return;
   }

...

Sound is extra. This is because most often you want to create a silent 
menu or have one audio track and many short videos stitched together.

Varol :)

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] multiple audio

[Varol O. <va...@mo...>]

On 07/06/2014 06:22 PM, Jurgen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am making a promotion DVD wit many short videos.
> One of the video contains three audio tracks (English, Dutch, 
> Malagasy/Bara).
> The three tracks are not picked up in Qdvdauthor so this is what I did 
> in the xml (in bold):
>
> <SourceEntry Pause="0" DisplayName="[15] - output" >
> *<Audio AudioNumber="0" Lang="EN" />**
> **<Audio AudioNumber="1" Lang="NL" />**
> **<Audio AudioNumber="2" Lang="MG" />*
> <SourceInfo Pause="0" BPS="192000" Size="2.04794GB" Bits="0" 
> Format="pal" Titleset="3" Ratio="16:9" FPS="25" Length="02:07:53" 
> AutoTranscode="false" AudioFormat="Stereo" MetaSubtitles="false" 
> HasAudio="true" MSecPreview="79300" Sample="48000" 
> Resolution="720x576" Status="Ok" >
> <File>output.vob</File>
> <Properties Pause="0" PostCommands=" call vmgm menu 5;" 
> PreCommands="audio=0; " />
> <Chapters>00:00:00.000</Chapters>
> </SourceInfo>
> </SourceEntry>
>
> However, the final result is that only the first (set in the xml) 
> language is visible when I play the DVD and play around with the audio 
> button on my remote.
> Is there a way to make my DVD thingy obey my commands... Like "yes 
> jurgen, your will is my command." ;)
>
> Jurgen

It's been a long time, however I thought this used to work just fine.

The place to start looking into this would be the generated 
dvdauthor.xml file which is fed to dvdauthor.
Ps. Sorry I forgot to add the yes-I-obey Jurgen button ;)

Varol :)

[QDVDAuthor-users] multiple audio

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I am making a promotion DVD wit many short videos.
One of the video contains three audio tracks (English, Dutch, 
Malagasy/Bara).
The three tracks are not picked up in Qdvdauthor so this is what I did 
in the xml (in bold):

<SourceEntry Pause="0" DisplayName="[15] - output" >
*<Audio AudioNumber="0" Lang="EN" />**
**<Audio AudioNumber="1" Lang="NL" />**
**<Audio AudioNumber="2" Lang="MG" />*
<SourceInfo Pause="0" BPS="192000" Size="2.04794GB" Bits="0" 
Format="pal" Titleset="3" Ratio="16:9" FPS="25" Length="02:07:53" 
AutoTranscode="false" AudioFormat="Stereo" MetaSubtitles="false" 
HasAudio="true" MSecPreview="79300" Sample="48000" Resolution="720x576" 
Status="Ok" >
<File>output.vob</File>
<Properties Pause="0" PostCommands=" call vmgm menu 5;" 
PreCommands="audio=0; " />
<Chapters>00:00:00.000</Chapters>
</SourceInfo>
</SourceEntry>

However, the final result is that only the first (set in the xml) 
language is visible when I play the DVD and play around with the audio 
button on my remote.
Is there a way to make my DVD thingy obey my commands... Like "yes 
jurgen, your will is my command." ;)

Jurgen

[QDVDAuthor-users] Mask on a video in menu

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Two short questions.
Firstly, does anybody know whether I can use the mask option on a video 
(placed on a menu).
I know that it works on an image but cannot figure out whether or not it 
works on a menu-video.

Second question:
When I use a video on the menu I do not hear the sound. So I need to put 
the sound separately under the menu, is this the only way?


Kind regards,
Jurgen

[QDVDAuthor-users] Compilation fixes, bug reports

[Steven B. II <ul...@ya...>]

The enclosed patch (against the latest code in CVS) fixes compilation under Fedora Core 19 (i.e. ffmpeg 1.2.5) and Fedora Core 20 (i.e. ffmpeg 2.1.3), hopefully without breaking the build under older versions of ffmpeg.

Also, here are some bugs I've noticed.  Seems that most of these were reported by other people months ago.

1) Selected and highlighted colors are always black.

Can be patched by editing the generated highlighted.png and selected.png files, modifying the color palette, then rerunning spumux.
I dug around qdvdauthor/dvdmenu.cpp and qdvdauthor/buttonobject.cpp but haven't figured out the problem yet.

2) Only "up" property of buttons are set.

Can be patched by modifying the generated menu.xml to add "down", "left", and "right" entries, then rerunning the spumux command-line.

3) Multiple DVD menus generate an empty titleset, which fails under dvdauthor.

Can be patched by moving one of the videos into the empty titleset, and adjusting the commands to point to the video's new location.

Steven Boswell

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] QT3 dependency problems on Debian 7.1

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Forgot to mention:
The same command goes for Spumux:

export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC; spumux




On 11/19/2013 08:01 PM, Jurgen wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> I think the 'no default video format' problem can be solved:
>
> Set the launch button for QDVDAuthor like this:
> /*export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC;  qdvdauthor*/
>
> That is to say, when you start Qdvdauthor, you have to do it with the
> complete line as above. (Change ntsc into pal as you wish).
>
> Hopefully this works.
>
> Jurgen
>
> P.s.: Please reply to the group as well. That way your questions will
> archived for future users.
>
>
> On 11/19/2013 07:45 PM, Tony Ross wrote:
>> Making progress but have a problem, please ... I installed genisomage
>> which has replaced mkisofs on Debian, and made changes to qdvdauthor.ini.
>>
>> I'm attempting to create a PAL iso image of a background picture
>> (resized to PAL), a single button that takes a single transition to a
>> single video which exists as ntsc, making the needed option change to
>> '"ffmpeg -i "/tmp/Plan9/file/file.ac3" -i "/tmp/Plan9/file/file.m2v"
>> -aspect 4:3 -target pal-dvd ...'
>>
>> Everything seems to work well until "spumux -m dvd "/tmp/Plan9/Main
>> Menu VMGM/menu.xml < ..." when there occurs "INFO: no default video
>> format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL", but the command
>> completes successfully with exit status 0:
>>
>> $ spumux -m dvd "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/menu.xml" <
>> "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/menu.mpg" > "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu
>> VMGM_menu.mpg"
>> DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.7.0.
>> Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
>> Send bug reports to <dvd...@li...>
>>
>> INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
>> INFO: Picture /tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/highlighted.png had 2 colors
>> INFO: Picture /tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/selected.png had 2 colors
>> INFO: Constructing blank img
>> INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
>> INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.
>> INFO: Max_sub_size=744
>> INFO: 1 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.16
>> $ echo $?
>> 0
>>
>> The same INFO regarding video format occurs with dvdauthor, although
>> unsuccessfully:
>>
>> $ dvdauthor -x "/tmp/Plan9/dvdauthor.xml"
>> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
>> Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
>> Send bug reports to <dvd...@li...>
>>
>> INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
>> INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
>> STAT: Picking VTS 01
>> ERR:  no video format specified for VTSM
>> $ echo $?
>> 1
>>
>> even though dvdauthor.xml natively contains:
>> ...
>>       <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576" />
>> ...
>>
>> "PAL" and "pal" both produce the same error. The empty AUDIO_TS and
>> VIDEO_TS directories do get created in the proper place however.
>>
>> Attached is the dvdauthor.xml that is the problem. I'd be grateful if
>> anyone could advise on this (apparently) last hurdle.
>>
>>
>> On 11/14/2013 02:32 AM, Tony Ross wrote:
>>> Jurgen, it was very helpful, thank you.
>>>
>>> I found the qdvdauthor package in "precise", so I added that repository,
>>> retrieved the gpg key, did an apt-get update, and when I attempted to
>>> install qdvdauthor I was presented with the necessary dependencies:
>>> libqt3-mt, videotrans and dvd-slideshow. Those I then installed and
>>> qdvdauthor was straightforward.
>>>
>>> Again, thank you.
>>>
>>> Varol, compiling Qt3 of any version met with the same errors as
>>> previously
>>> stated for some unknown reason.
>>>
>>> Thank you as well, and I'm happy to be using your excellent program
>>> again,
>>> this time on Debian 7.1 "Wheezy".
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/14/2013 12:28 AM, Jurgen wrote:
>>>> Tony,
>>>> Would it be possible to install Qdvdauthor with synapyic (or other
>>>> package manager)?
>>>> The repository I normally use is this one:
>>>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu
>>>> YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE
>>>> main
>>>> I think this works for Debian as well.
>>>> If you install it with a package manager is will be easier to see the
>>>> missing dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully this is helpful,
>>>> Jurgen
>>>>
>>>> On 11/14/2013 12:43 AM, Varol Okan wrote:
>>>>> You should also be able to compile qt 3.x from source on your
>>>>> system if
>>>>> all else fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have Debian so won't be able to help much more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Varol :)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/13/2013 04:07 PM, Tony Ross wrote:
>>>>>> I recently installed Debian 7.1 after very successful Qdvdauthor
>>>>>> usage
>>>>>> on Ubuntu and CentOS. Meeting the QT3 dependency is seeming
>>>>>> impossible
>>>>>> on Debian 7.1 though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have a list of precisely what packages are needed,
>>>>>> please?
>>>>>> Any additional advice would be most welcomed.
>>
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[QDVDAuthor-users] Missing attributes from button tags in spumux menu.xml files

[Torsten C. <tor...@eB...>]

Dear list,

it seems I recently posted a message before my confirmation for joining 
the list was processed... Hence again:

--------8<--------

Hi there,

admittedly, I am not using the latest version of qdvdauthor due to the 
fact that my OS (Debian) only provides an amlost 2 years old 2.00300 
version. Anyway, I wonder if the following is a bug or just the result 
of me being to dumb to use qdvdauthor correctly:

For a DVD, I created several menus with several buttons each. For each 
button, I explicitly defined which button to go to next when hitting any 
of the up/down/left/right direction keys. I am able to recover this 
information in the qdvdauthor project xml file. However, when actually 
creating the dvd, only the "up" attribute ends up in the generated 
spumux menu.xml files.

As example, please find an excerpt from my qdvdauthor project and the 
corresponding menu.xml below:

- Qdvdauthor project file (with ButtonObject subtags removed for clarity):
...
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->Burden down" Left="CS2->CS1" 
Action="jump+-+Konzert+-+00:14:46.640" Right="CS2->CS3" PreAction="" 
ButtonName="CS2->Ansage Steffi" Up="CS2->CS3" SourceEntry="Konzert" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->Nobody knows" Left="CS2->Burden down" 
Action="jump+-+Konzert+-+00:17:02.800" Right="CS2->Burden down" 
PreAction="" ButtonName="CS2->Burden down" Up="CS2->Ansage Steffi" 
SourceEntry="Konzert" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->Go down, Moses" Left="CS2->Nobody knows" 
Action="jump+-+Konzert+-+00:19:07.600" Right="CS2->Nobody knows" 
PreAction="" ButtonName="CS2->Nobody knows" Up="CS2->Burden down" 
SourceEntry="Konzert" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->Soon and very soon" Left="CS2->Go down, 
Moses" Action="jump+-+Konzert+-+00:21:39.560" Right="CS2->Go down, 
Moses" PreAction="" ButtonName="CS2->Go down, Moses" Up="CS2->Nobody 
knows" SourceEntry="Konzert" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->MM" Left="CS2->MM" 
Action="jump+-+Konzert+-+00:24:32.720" Right="CS2->MM" PreAction="" 
ButtonName="CS2->Soon and very soon" Up="CS2->Go down, Moses" 
SourceEntry="Konzert" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->Ansage Steffi" Left="CS2->CS3" 
Action="jump+-+Chapter Selection 1+-+" Right="CS2->CS3" PreAction="" 
ButtonName="CS2->CS1" Up="CS2->MM" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->Ansage Steffi" Left="CS2->CS1" 
Action="jump+-+Chapter Selection 3+-+" Right="CS2->CS1" PreAction="" 
ButtonName="CS2->CS3" Up="CS2->Resume" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->CS1" Left="CS2->Resume" 
Action="jump+-+vmgm+-+" Right="CS2->Resume" PreAction="" 
ButtonName="CS2->MM" Up="CS2->Soon and very soon" >
    </ButtonObject>
    <ButtonObject Down="CS2->CS3" Left="CS2->MM" Action="resume+-++-+" 
Right="CS2->MM" PreAction="" ButtonName="CS2->Resume" Up="CS2->Soon and 
very soon" >
    </ButtonObject>
...


- Spumux menu.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<subpictures>
  <stream>
   <spu transparent="fefffe" force="yes" end="00:00:00.0" 
select="/tmp/swing-low-konzert-20130203/Chapter Selection 
2/selected.png" start="00:00:00.0" 
highlight="/tmp/swing-low-konzert-20130203/Chapter Selection 
2/highlighted.png" >
    <button up="06_CS2->CS3" y0="100" y1="154" x0="327" 
name="01_CS2->Ansage_Steffi" x1="538" />
    <button up="01_CS2->Ansage_Steffi" y0="160" y1="214" x0="292" 
name="02_CS2->Burden_down" x1="508" />
    <button up="02_CS2->Burden_down" y0="220" y1="274" x0="247" 
name="03_CS2->Nobody_knows" x1="484" />
    <button up="03_CS2->Nobody_knows" y0="280" y1="334" x0="219" 
name="04_CS2->Go_down,_Moses" x1="485" />
    <button up="04_CS2->Go_down,_Moses" y0="340" y1="394" x0="175" 
name="05_CS2->Soon_and_very_soon" x1="499" />
    <button up="08_CS2->Resume" y0="50" y1="88" x0="470" 
name="06_CS2->CS3" x1="586" />
    <button up="05_CS2->Soon_and_very_soon" y0="480" y1="518" x0="58" 
name="07_CS2->MM" x1="209" />
    <button up="05_CS2->Soon_and_very_soon" y0="480" y1="518" x0="450" 
name="08_CS2->Resume" x1="638" />
    <button up="07_CS2->MM" y0="50" y1="88" x0="140" name="09_CS2->CS1" 
x1="273" />
   </spu>
  </stream>
</subpictures>

Funny, eh?

So... I wonder if any of you have experienced similar problems and if a 
solution is known.

Thanx in advance for any helpful hints --

     Torsten

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] QT3 dependency problems on Debian 7.1

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Hi Tony,

I think the 'no default video format' problem can be solved:

Set the launch button for QDVDAuthor like this:
/*export VIDEO_FORMAT=NTSC;  qdvdauthor*/

That is to say, when you start Qdvdauthor, you have to do it with the 
complete line as above. (Change ntsc into pal as you wish).

Hopefully this works.

Jurgen

P.s.: Please reply to the group as well. That way your questions will 
archived for future users.


On 11/19/2013 07:45 PM, Tony Ross wrote:
> Making progress but have a problem, please ... I installed genisomage 
> which has replaced mkisofs on Debian, and made changes to qdvdauthor.ini.
>
> I'm attempting to create a PAL iso image of a background picture 
> (resized to PAL), a single button that takes a single transition to a 
> single video which exists as ntsc, making the needed option change to 
> '"ffmpeg -i "/tmp/Plan9/file/file.ac3" -i "/tmp/Plan9/file/file.m2v" 
> -aspect 4:3 -target pal-dvd ...'
>
> Everything seems to work well until "spumux -m dvd "/tmp/Plan9/Main 
> Menu VMGM/menu.xml < ..." when there occurs "INFO: no default video 
> format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL", but the command 
> completes successfully with exit status 0:
>
> $ spumux -m dvd "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/menu.xml" < 
> "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/menu.mpg" > "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu 
> VMGM_menu.mpg"
> DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.7.0.
> Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
> Send bug reports to <dvd...@li...>
>
> INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
> INFO: Picture /tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/highlighted.png had 2 colors
> INFO: Picture /tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/selected.png had 2 colors
> INFO: Constructing blank img
> INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
> INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.
> INFO: Max_sub_size=744
> INFO: 1 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.16
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> The same INFO regarding video format occurs with dvdauthor, although 
> unsuccessfully:
>
> $ dvdauthor -x "/tmp/Plan9/dvdauthor.xml"
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
> Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
> Send bug reports to <dvd...@li...>
>
> INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
> INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
> STAT: Picking VTS 01
> ERR:  no video format specified for VTSM
> $ echo $?
> 1
>
> even though dvdauthor.xml natively contains:
> ...
>      <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576" />
> ...
>
> "PAL" and "pal" both produce the same error. The empty AUDIO_TS and 
> VIDEO_TS directories do get created in the proper place however.
>
> Attached is the dvdauthor.xml that is the problem. I'd be grateful if 
> anyone could advise on this (apparently) last hurdle.
>
>
> On 11/14/2013 02:32 AM, Tony Ross wrote:
>> Jurgen, it was very helpful, thank you.
>>
>> I found the qdvdauthor package in "precise", so I added that repository,
>> retrieved the gpg key, did an apt-get update, and when I attempted to
>> install qdvdauthor I was presented with the necessary dependencies:
>> libqt3-mt, videotrans and dvd-slideshow. Those I then installed and
>> qdvdauthor was straightforward.
>>
>> Again, thank you.
>>
>> Varol, compiling Qt3 of any version met with the same errors as 
>> previously
>> stated for some unknown reason.
>>
>> Thank you as well, and I'm happy to be using your excellent program 
>> again,
>> this time on Debian 7.1 "Wheezy".
>>
>>
>> On 11/14/2013 12:28 AM, Jurgen wrote:
>>> Tony,
>>> Would it be possible to install Qdvdauthor with synapyic (or other
>>> package manager)?
>>> The repository I normally use is this one:
>>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu
>>> YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE
>>> main
>>> I think this works for Debian as well.
>>> If you install it with a package manager is will be easier to see the
>>> missing dependencies.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this is helpful,
>>> Jurgen
>>>
>>> On 11/14/2013 12:43 AM, Varol Okan wrote:
>>>> You should also be able to compile qt 3.x from source on your 
>>>> system if
>>>> all else fails.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have Debian so won't be able to help much more.
>>>>
>>>> Varol :)
>>>>
>>>> On 11/13/2013 04:07 PM, Tony Ross wrote:
>>>>> I recently installed Debian 7.1 after very successful Qdvdauthor 
>>>>> usage
>>>>> on Ubuntu and CentOS. Meeting the QT3 dependency is seeming 
>>>>> impossible
>>>>> on Debian 7.1 though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have a list of precisely what packages are needed, 
>>>>> please?
>>>>> Any additional advice would be most welcomed.
>
>
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Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] QT3 dependency problems on Debian 7.1

[Tony R. <yno...@ho...>]

Making progress but have a problem, please ... I installed genisomage 
which has replaced mkisofs on Debian, and made changes to qdvdauthor.ini.

I'm attempting to create a PAL iso image of a background picture 
(resized to PAL), a single button that takes a single transition to a 
single video which exists as ntsc, making the needed option change to 
'"ffmpeg -i "/tmp/Plan9/file/file.ac3" -i "/tmp/Plan9/file/file.m2v" 
-aspect 4:3 -target pal-dvd ...'

Everything seems to work well until "spumux -m dvd "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu 
VMGM/menu.xml < ..." when there occurs "INFO: no default video format, 
must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL", but the command completes 
successfully with exit status 0:

$ spumux -m dvd "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/menu.xml" < "/tmp/Plan9/Main 
Menu VMGM/menu.mpg" > "/tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM_menu.mpg"
DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvd...@li...>

INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
INFO: Picture /tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/highlighted.png had 2 colors
INFO: Picture /tmp/Plan9/Main Menu VMGM/selected.png had 2 colors
INFO: Constructing blank img
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.
INFO: Max_sub_size=744
INFO: 1 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.16
$ echo $?
0

The same INFO regarding video format occurs with dvdauthor, although 
unsuccessfully:

$ dvdauthor -x "/tmp/Plan9/dvdauthor.xml"
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.0.
Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi fontconfig
Send bug reports to <dvd...@li...>

INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01
ERR:  no video format specified for VTSM
$ echo $?
1

even though dvdauthor.xml natively contains:
...
      <video format="pal" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576" />
...

"PAL" and "pal" both produce the same error. The empty AUDIO_TS and 
VIDEO_TS directories do get created in the proper place however.

Attached is the dvdauthor.xml that is the problem. I'd be grateful if 
anyone could advise on this (apparently) last hurdle.


On 11/14/2013 02:32 AM, Tony Ross wrote:
> Jurgen, it was very helpful, thank you.
>
> I found the qdvdauthor package in "precise", so I added that repository,
> retrieved the gpg key, did an apt-get update, and when I attempted to
> install qdvdauthor I was presented with the necessary dependencies:
> libqt3-mt, videotrans and dvd-slideshow. Those I then installed and
> qdvdauthor was straightforward.
>
> Again, thank you.
>
> Varol, compiling Qt3 of any version met with the same errors as 
> previously
> stated for some unknown reason.
>
> Thank you as well, and I'm happy to be using your excellent program 
> again,
> this time on Debian 7.1 "Wheezy".
>
>
> On 11/14/2013 12:28 AM, Jurgen wrote:
>> Tony,
>> Would it be possible to install Qdvdauthor with synapyic (or other
>> package manager)?
>> The repository I normally use is this one:
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu
>> YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE
>> main
>> I think this works for Debian as well.
>> If you install it with a package manager is will be easier to see the
>> missing dependencies.
>>
>> Hopefully this is helpful,
>> Jurgen
>>
>> On 11/14/2013 12:43 AM, Varol Okan wrote:
>>> You should also be able to compile qt 3.x from source on your system if
>>> all else fails.
>>>
>>> I don't have Debian so won't be able to help much more.
>>>
>>> Varol :)
>>>
>>> On 11/13/2013 04:07 PM, Tony Ross wrote:
>>>> I recently installed Debian 7.1 after very successful Qdvdauthor usage
>>>> on Ubuntu and CentOS. Meeting the QT3 dependency is seeming impossible
>>>> on Debian 7.1 though.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a list of precisely what packages are needed, please?
>>>> Any additional advice would be most welcomed.

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] QT3 dependency problems on Debian 7.1

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Good to hear! Indeed a great DVD tool


On 11/14/2013 11:32 AM, Tony Ross wrote:

Jurgen, it was very helpful, thank you.

I found the qdvdauthor package in "precise", so I added that repository,
retrieved the gpg key, did an apt-get update, and when I attempted to
install qdvdauthor I was presented with the necessary dependencies:
libqt3-mt, videotrans and dvd-slideshow. Those I then installed and
qdvdauthor was straightforward.

Again, thank you.

Varol, compiling Qt3 of any version met with the same errors as previously
stated for some unknown reason.

Thank you as well, and I'm happy to be using your excellent program again,
this time on Debian 7.1 "Wheezy".


On 11/14/2013 12:28 AM, Jurgen wrote:
Tony,
Would it be possible to install Qdvdauthor with synapyic (or other
package manager)?
The repository I normally use is this one:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu
YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE
main
I think this works for Debian as well.
If you install it with a package manager is will be easier to see the
missing dependencies.

Hopefully this is helpful,
Jurgen

On 11/14/2013 12:43 AM, Varol Okan wrote:
You should also be able to compile qt 3.x from source on your system if
all else fails.

I don't have Debian so won't be able to help much more.

Varol :)

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] QT3 dependency problems on Debian 7.1

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Tony,
Would it be possible to install Qdvdauthor with synapyic (or other 
package manager)?
The repository I normally use is this one:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu 
YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE
main
I think this works for Debian as well.
If you install it with a package manager is will be easier to see the 
missing dependencies.

Hopefully this is helpful,
Jurgen

On 11/14/2013 12:43 AM, Varol Okan wrote:
> You should also be able to compile qt 3.x from source on your system if
> all else fails.
>
> I don't have Debian so won't be able to help much more.
>
> Varol :)
>
> On 11/13/2013 04:07 PM, Tony Ross wrote:
>> I recently installed Debian 7.1 after very successful Qdvdauthor usage
>> on Ubuntu and CentOS. Meeting the QT3 dependency is seeming impossible
>> on Debian 7.1 though.
>>
>> Does anyone have a list of precisely what packages are needed, please?
>> Any additional advice would be most welcomed.
>>
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Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] QT3 dependency problems on Debian 7.1

[Varol O. <va...@mo...>]

You should also be able to compile qt 3.x from source on your system if 
all else fails.

I don't have Debian so won't be able to help much more.

Varol :)

On 11/13/2013 04:07 PM, Tony Ross wrote:
> I recently installed Debian 7.1 after very successful Qdvdauthor usage
> on Ubuntu and CentOS. Meeting the QT3 dependency is seeming impossible
> on Debian 7.1 though.
>
> Does anyone have a list of precisely what packages are needed, please?
> Any additional advice would be most welcomed.
>
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[QDVDAuthor-users] QT3 dependency problems on Debian 7.1

[Tony R. <yno...@ho...>]

I recently installed Debian 7.1 after very successful Qdvdauthor usage 
on Ubuntu and CentOS. Meeting the QT3 dependency is seeming impossible 
on Debian 7.1 though.

Does anyone have a list of precisely what packages are needed, please? 
Any additional advice would be most welcomed.

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] Compiling error

[Varol O. <va...@mo...>]

Jurgen,

I thought I fixed this issue.

ffmpeg is constantly evolving ( changing ) their API and is causing the 
build to fail. So in the file
QDVDAUTHOR/qrender/local_ffmpeg.sh

there is a part which retrieves the file
http://qdvdauthor.sf.net/ffmpeg_location.txt

this file points to
http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.6.3.tar.bz2

instead of the latest ffmpeg snapshot.

So if you are connected to the internet, AND you have wget installed it 
should work.
Of course you can also simply replace the line:

theLib="http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2"
with
theLib="http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.6.3.tar.bz2"

that should do the trick.

Varol :)


On 11/12/2013 05:44 AM, Jurgen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried to compile qdvdauthor 2.3.1 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qdvdauthor/).
> But it is failing. I have tried several options.
> Attached you will find the outcome of the commands configure-n and 
> configure-c.
>
> Please tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jurgen

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] No VOBUs found in my submenu

[Jurgen <jur...@gm...>]

Okay, found it.

My main video was a bit messed up.
It was a PAL 720x576 23,9 format and that had to be a frame rate of 25.

Main thing was my multiple audio stream. I noticed that I can not add an 
extra stream in Qdvdauthor. The stream does simply not get assigned with 
an extra stream number (1, 2, 3 etc.). This way Qdvdauthor complains 
about editing the master audio stream and thus not allows it. I injected 
the two stream manually with Mplex.

Furthermore adding subtitles did not went well so I had to do that 
manual with spumux. In Qdvdauthor I choose a solid colour white, and 
outline set on 1 color black, and outline transparency on 0 (zero). This 
resulted in a .png bigger than spumux can handle. In stead I used the 
following settings: solid colour white, and outline set on 2 colour 
black, and outline transparency on 25. For some reason this setting 
worked well.

So in the end it turned out not to be an error in the submenu but in the 
main video.

_*For the interested among you:*_
_Mplex your video:_
First save the audio stream separate from the video. For this see this 
howto: 
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=tutorial:converting_to_dvd
Than add the streams together with Mplex: mplex -f 8 -o output.m2v 
video.m2v track-1.mp2 track-2.ac3
Note that you use -f 8 and not -f 9, as -f 8 adds empty VOBU's which you 
need in Qdvdauthor.

_Spumux two subtitle streams:_
export VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL; spumux -s 1 subtitle_0.xml < input.m2v > 
output-with-first-stream.m2v
export VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL; spumux -s 2 subtitle_1.xml < 
output-with-first-stream.m2v > output-with-two-streams.m2v

Note that the first command (export VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL;) must be given in 
order to tell spumux with what kind of format your working. I am working 
with Kubuntu so maybe with other distro's this would not be applicable. 
To make Qdvdvauthor run properly I have to start the application like 
this: export VIDEO_FORMAT=PAL; qdvdauthor
For a further explanation about spumux: 
http://www.bobdroog.nl/2009/11/13/create-a-dvd-from-mpg-and-add-subtitles-using-spumux-in-bash/


Have fun!
Jurgen