Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] add an intro before the main menu?

[Z F <mail4me9999@ya...>]

Dear Varol,

--- On Wed, 11/24/10, Varol Okan <varokan@...> wrote:

 
> Simply click on your menu and "Add Intro ...". Make sure it
> is already
> in VOB format.

I have not used this feature so I cannot comment, but...

> 
> This will create the <fpc> tag.

In my experience, <fpc> flag is not supported correctly on
many DVD players. It is possible that I was doing something wrong,
but I could not get consistent results across different DVD players using the flag. This is not a fault of qdvdauthor.

I wanted the "intro" to be played exactly one time when DVD is inserted
and never to be played again. This could not be achieved with the <fpc>
flag even though, as far as I understand, it is designed for it.

What I ended up using is a register variable and putting the "intro"
as a separate titleset. (I noticed that commerial DVDs do not seem 
to use fpc flag either). 
Then in the vmgm menu, I have a statement in <pre> to check if the
register is equal to zero (default). If it is, I go on and play the intro titleset and set the register to 1. In this "intro" titleset, I have a check
in <pre> and <post> that if the register is equal to 1, go to the main vmgm entry.
This way the intro is never played again.

Lazar

> 
> Varol :)
> 
> On 11/23/2010 03:43 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > How do I add a short introductory video before the
> main menu? I want it 
> > to play automatically when the DVD is inserted then go
> automatically to 
> > the menu when it ends.
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Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] add an intro before the main menu?

[Varol Okan <varokan@mo...>]

That is actually pretty easy.

Simply click on your menu and "Add Intro ...". Make sure it is already
in VOB format.

This will create the <fpc> tag.

Varol :)

On 11/23/2010 03:43 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> How do I add a short introductory video before the main menu? I want it 
> to play automatically when the DVD is inserted then go automatically to 
> the menu when it ends.
>
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Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] add an intro before the main menu?

[Jurgen - gmail <jurgen.hofmann@gm...>]

Hey Gary.

This can be done by inserting a intro.
mainmenu -- DVDmenu -- Add Intro

good luck,
Jurgen

Op dinsdag 23 november 2010 21:43:37 schreef Gary Dale:
> How do I add a short introductory video before the main menu? I want it
> to play automatically when the DVD is inserted then go automatically to
> the menu when it ends.
> 
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[QDVDAuthor-users] add an intro before the main menu?

[Gary Dale <garydale@ro...>]

How do I add a short introductory video before the main menu? I want it 
to play automatically when the DVD is inserted then go automatically to 
the menu when it ends.

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] problem with movie buttons??

[QDVDAuthor <QDVDAuthor@us...>]

Gary,

I looked at the output.txt file and I see that the transcoding time was around 13 minutes. Can you tell me how long the generated video "/tmp/A-014/A-014/A-014.mpeg2" is ? It seems of the generated chapters, the last one 00:11:19.500  is set at 679.445 seconds, which would mean, that the whole video is less than 00:23:21.000.

The last transcoding line states :
Pos:1279.9s  42634f (25%) 151.25fps Trem:  13min 2922mb  A-V:0.066 [4568:192]^MPos:1280.0s  42635f (25%) 151.25fps Trem:  13min 2922mb  A-V:0.069 [4568:192]

So it seems that only 25% was converted to mpeg2 ( It should be around 1hour and 30min == 5400 seconds instead of 1280 seconds )

Looking at the command :
/usr/bin/mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -ss 0 -endpos 5448 -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:aspect=4/3:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=6600:keyint=15:acodec=mp2:abitrate=192 -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -ofps 30000/1001 -of mpeg -o "/tmp/A-014/A-014/A-014.mpeg2" "/home/garydale/mnt/media/video/to be burned/A-014/A-014.avi"


So the problem seems to be mencoder does not transcode the whole video ( from ss=0 to endpos=5448 ). You can try out the above command manually and see if this happens again.
You can also try one of the other available transcoding options. Maybe try ffmpeg instead.

Note: Please remember, that once the video is transcoded and you want to re-create the DVD you can simply un-check the transcoding part so you won't have to wait an hour.

Note2: If ffmpeg works better for transcoding on your system, you can click on [d]efault
http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/images/commandqueue.png

I hope this helped fixing your issue.

Varol :)


On Monday, November 22, 2010 03:28:25 pm Gary Dale wrote:
> Switching between MPlayer and Xine didn't have any impact.
> 
> I suspect that some formats provide easier calculations than others. The 
> particular video was XVid format. If I use avidemux to convert it to 
> mpeg2 first, then I don't get the error.
> 
> 
> On 22/11/10 11:18 AM, QDVDAuthor wrote:
> > Gary those are good observations.
> >
> > However I suspect the issue to be simpler. Can you please send me the file that is generated through [ Tools ->  Feedback ...] this way I can take a look at the dvd structure that is being created.
> >
> > A note to the chapter generation etc. QDVDAuthor is using MPlayer, or Xine to determine the length of the movie, and to get the screenshots of the movie.
> > You can switch between xine and MPlayer under [ Tools ->  Setup ... ->  Media Backend ]. xine seems to have a hard time with mpeg2 streams length calculations.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Varol :)
> >
> > On Sunday, November 21, 2010 04:08:43 pm Gary Dale wrote:
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Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] problem with movie buttons??

[QDVDAuthor <QDVDAuthor@us...>]

Gary those are good observations.

However I suspect the issue to be simpler. Can you please send me the file that is generated through [ Tools -> Feedback ...] this way I can take a look at the dvd structure that is being created.

A note to the chapter generation etc. QDVDAuthor is using MPlayer, or Xine to determine the length of the movie, and to get the screenshots of the movie.
You can switch between xine and MPlayer under [ Tools -> Setup ... -> Media Backend ]. xine seems to have a hard time with mpeg2 streams length calculations.

Regards,

Varol :)

On Sunday, November 21, 2010 04:08:43 pm Gary Dale wrote:
> The chapter

[QDVDAuthor-users] problem with movie buttons??

[Gary Dale <garydale@ro...>]

I'm running v2.0100 (build: mar 23 2010) from the debian-multimedia 
repository.

I'm getting an error when creating some DVDs with movie buttons. 
Sometimes I've been getting an error message claiming that there are 
fewer chapters than the movie actually contains (see below, which is 
from a project with seven chapters).

It's only when I looked at the output.txt file in the project's folder 
in the /tmp directory that it started to make sense. The project is 
creating vts_01_1.VOB which actually has four scenes starting in it. 
However, it seems to be two minutes shorter than the original video at 
the point that it ends. That is, if I match the ending frame in the .VOB 
file with the corresponding frame in the original video, the .VOB shows 
a time that is two minutes less than the original video.

Therefore dvdauthor can't find the scene when it's calculating chapters.

I understand from previous encounters with MPEG/DVD video that there are 
several ways that can be used to calculate the total playing time of a 
clip. Apparently the method used to calculate which chapters should be 
included in the .VOB file doesn't match the way dvdauthor is using to 
set the menu jumps.

The chapter jumps themselves (in DVDs I've previously created) seem to 
go to the right spot, but I've noticed that the chapter previews don't 
always seem to be where I've set them. I'm not sure if that is related 
or not. However, I suspect that the way qdvdauthor is calculating 
locations in the movie is off, which is causing both problems.


INFO: Video pts = 0.231 .. 1280.277
INFO: Audio[8] pts = 0.231 .. 1280.079
STAT: VOBU 2569 at 742MB, 1 PGCs
CHAPTERS: VTS[1/1] 0.000
CHAPTERS: VTS[1/1] 57.357
CHAPTERS: VTS[1/1] 679.445
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: ntsc
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x480
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: mp2/2ch,  48khz 20bps, 'en'

ERR:  Cannot jump to chapter 4 of title 1, only 3 exist
ERR:  in VTSM pgc 0, <pre>

Re: [QDVDAuthor-users] unable to add movies to project

[Varol Okan <varokan@mo...>]

Gary,

you can look at this tutorial and I will probably create another one
this weekend which explains the usage of the "Add Organize Videos" dialog.
http://www.qtdvd.com/guides/FewClickWizard.html

Note: while this flash demonstration focuses on the FewClickDialog, it
is also covering the Dialog you are talking about.

The main idea behind this dialog is to group videos and add the groups
to the DVD.

You can also simply click on the All videos tab to open a simple file
selection dialog.

I hope this helped a bit.


On 11/13/2010 02:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm running v2.0100 (build: mar 23 201

[QDVDAuthor-users] unable to add movies to project

[Gary Dale <garydale@ro...>]

I'm running v2.0100 (build: mar 23 2010) from the debian-multimedia 
repository. While I try to follow the quick-start guide, it fails quite 
quickly. There is no Add Movie button, the Add Movie Source from the 
DVDauthor menu opens a dialog but doesn't let me select a movie, and the 
Add Movie from the DVDmenu menu seems to add a button.

The add/organize videos button when I select the videos tab in the left 
panel does the same thing as the Add Movie Source menu item. It allows 
me to browse to the movie but selecting it does nothing.

Because of this, I can build nice menus with movie buttons but can't 
connect the buttons to a chapter in a movie.

I've tried purging and reinstalling but that doesn't work either.

Any ideas?