DVD burning mod (7/14/06 - v1.4.2)

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by peternm22

Should the SageTVTranscoder.exe process be using 100% of the CPU if it is only demuxing/remuxing? It seems as if the video is transcoding, and not just demux/remux. I'm using the DVD Long Play profile, using a Hauppauge PVR250.

My system specs:

A64 3000+
1GB RAM
SageTV 5.0.4 using SageMC 6.13a

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-Peter

Nope, during demux/remux it should only be using ~10%. However, if the script found an error when it made a test DVD for the video then it will force it to transcode, in which case it will use 100%. You can search your log file for "nav" and see if it says that there is no transcoding nessisary.

[peternm22]

I've attached my log files... not sure which one you need to look at, so I attached all of them

Thanks.

-Peter

[peternm22]

I searched all of the files for "nav", and I couldn't find it. What type of error would cause it to force transcoding? I've tried two different shows, both of them send the CPU to 100%.

Thanks.

-Peter

[peternm22]

I found this in one of the log files:

Generating mpeg for test DVD: "C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\SageTVTranscoder.exe" -i "P:\Video\ChappellesShow-2951020-0.mpg" -target ntsc-dvd -acodec copy -vcodec copy -t 10 "G:\DVD\Chappelles Show.dvdList.0.WorkFolder\ChappellesShow-2951020-0.test.mpg"
Creating DVD File Structure: "C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\perl2DVD\dvdauthor.exe" -x "G:\DVD\Chappelles Show.dvdList.0.WorkFolder\ChappellesShow-2951020-0.config.xml" 2> "G:\DVD\Chappelles Show.dvdList.0.WorkFolder\ChappellesShow-2951020-0.dvdInfo.txt"
Error found in test DVD, forcing transcode

Then I found this:

DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.12-alpha-2907.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing G:\DVD\Chappelles Show.dvdList.0.WorkFolder\ChappellesShow-2951020-0.test.mpg...
WARN: Discontinuity in audio channel 8; please remultiplex input.
WARN: Previous sector: 0.500 - 0.548
WARN: Current sector: 0.596 - 0.644
STAT: VOBU 16 at 4MB, 1 PGCS
ERR: Cannot infer pts for VOBU if there is no audio or video and it is the
ERR: first VOBU.

How can I stop these errors from occurring?

Thanks.

-Peter

[evilpenguin]

I never really found out why that error occurs, however, I do know that it happens much less often on a fragmented drive. Don't worry too much though, I've found a new way to fix that error without doing a full transcode and it'll be included it in the next version.

[peternm22]

Sounds good. I'll eagerly await the release of the next version

-Peter

[evilpenguin]

Testing is talking a lot longer than I anticipated () so I thought i'd share a little preview







And here's my favorite...

That's weird, that show used to be 30 minutes and now its 22 minutes... I wonder where that extra time went

[peternm22]

Those pictures aren't displaying for me. I copy-pasted the URL's for them, and a website comes up wanting me to "Login to your Backpack". Any chance you could post them somewhere else?

Thanks.

-Peter

[evilpenguin]

Good call, being able to see the pictures is pretty important. Should be fixed now.

[peternm22]

Looking good. Will the next release still be compatible with SageTV 5? Or will it only be v6 from now on?

-Peter

[JDizzy]

I like the new look very much as far as being very MC like...

I do not have the DVD Burning mod installed and the install looks a bit complicated.

I am running Sage v6 and latest version of SageMC.

Should I wait for your new release before attempting to install?

Will it be as complicated?
JD

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by JDizzy

I like the new look very much as far as being very MC like...

I do not have the DVD Burning mod installed and the install looks a bit complicated.

I am running Sage v6 and latest version of SageMC.

Should I wait for your new release before attempting to install?

Will it be as complicated?
JD

I'd wait, this new version is much easier to install than before (I hope!)

[JDizzy]

Yeah...

Hopefully you can get this debugged soon...the weekend is coming and that allows time to play with the toys...
-JD

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

That's weird, that show used to be 30 minutes and now its 22 minutes... I wonder where that extra time went

Are you cutting commercials in the next release???

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

Are you cutting commercials in the next release???

Yep, but only with .edl files, so now would be a good time to figure out how to get your comskipping software setup to output them

[evilpenguin]

I was playing around last night and I figured out how to do something kinda cool. Using the same utilities I use to put together my dvd menus I can also generate some Apple “Front Row”-esque reflections on the fly. Check it out…

Original:

Reflection:


Original:

Reflection:


I'm not sure how yet, but I have to figure out a way to use this

Update:
Or even better still

Or maybe not, giving it proper perspective is a pain in the ass, but this doesn't look that bad

Update2: in a menu?


... ok, I'm done screwing around, back to the matter at hand

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Yep, but only with .edl files, so now would be a good time to figure out how to get your comskipping software setup to output them

Cool! I am already using the edl comskip plugin, so I'm already outputting edl.

[pvrpenguin]

The new SageMC integration looks great. I can't wait to get my hands on it!

Is it possible for the DVD plug-in to just generate DVD image files and not do the burning? My burner is on another computer so I'd rather just copy the image files created by the plug-in and burn them manually using Nero.

[evilpenguin]

Yep, it'll do that.

[jbarr]

evilpenguin, I'm planning on using this initially with Standard SageTV. Will that work, or do I need SageMC? I really look forward to the ability to simply select a show, tell it to burn, and then it burns. This is one feature that I am truely looking forward to!!!