STV Import: SageTV DVD Burning v2.0d (12/5/06)

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by Deadbolt

Evil,

Is there a way to set up the system so that it runs as a priority of Idle so as to not interfere with other programs?

Thanks!
Deadbolt

In the perl2dvd.advanced.properties, you can change the priority to low, which should translate to idle.

General: Transcoding priority(low | normal | high | realtime | abovenormal | belownormal)=low

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by phunny

Cane someone help me. I'm following the directions on how to install the software for the DVD burning but running into problems. I am running V6.0.18.118 I already changed by STV when I loaded version 6 with Comskip and that is working.

I then tried to load the DVD Burning STVI and import it. Three times I tried it said it did but when I now click on a recoding I don't see the burning option. I installed the DIRmone and imgburn. I also lost the Google choice I noticed under media options. I only have weather as a choice.

Any ideas what to do?

I haven't tested out the STVi with the final version of SageTV v6, i'll do that tommorow.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by blade

I installed this plug-in last night and it appears to work very well. I do have a few problems though. When I view the shows being burned in Sage I have no status indicator. All I have is the title and an empty box. Also it didn't include any show info like the screen shots show.

If there are corresponding .jpgs with the .bat and shortcut files then that's a mystery. I keep hearing about people having problems with the OtherPrograms import, but I've never been able to reproduce them.

Originally Posted by blade

Is there a way to have the burning process run in the background so that it doesn't steal focus? It minimized Sage to the tray when I ran it yesterday. I use FSE if that makes a difference.

If you open up your perl2dvd.advanced properties, you should see a line...

General: Optional other programs special extension (_m for minimize to taskbar, _x for exit, blank for sage screen saver) =

Make sure that is blank. Also make sure SageTV is set to go to screen saver on sleep.

Flachbar is right about the other stuff.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by bclenney

When I select burn to disk nothing happens and this is the log generated. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brian


----------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to add2dvdq v2.0a
Staring Proccesing at

------------------Advanced Preferences--------------------
non-MPEG file info regEX = \d{1,2}x\d{1,2} -
Optional path to SageTV or SageClient executable relative burning computer for .bat file =
Optional other programs special extention = _x
Disable creating readable file names = 0
RegEX for stripping out illigal charactors in readable filename = '|"|\\|/|\||<|>|:|\*|\?|\&|\;|`
burnImage =
Found 6 advanced preferences
gm = C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\perl2DVD\gm.exe
burnImage = C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\perl2DVD\burnImage.jpg

Incorrect number of parameters

Make sure that you're using the latest version of the STVi, that's error usually happens when you have a mismatch in versions.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by ejhills

So I think this thing is installed... however i only see this Image Burn Graphic with a big blue dot. Once I saw the graphic with a yellow dot,, then it eventually changed to blu. And even once I saw the image burn graphic with a dvd logo. When I clicked that one it burned a dvd but it did nor burn the audio....

Any thoughts anyone????
Ed

Yeah, the status icons are a bit confusion, but better than nothing

It sounds like everything is setup properly, so that's good, but the no audio is bad. Have you tried playing the DVD in a standalone DVD player, also what type of show were you burning to DVD, HD or SD?

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by shawn

Hi everyone. First post for me here. I have had SageTV for about a week and love all the cool extras. I have installed the burn to DVD import and the .img file is created in my video folder. There is also a batch file xyz.dvdList.0.burn.bat that runs imgburn. I have 2 questions about this:

1. After all files are processed and I go to other programs in Sage and select the DVD I created, it opens the sageothers folder and puts Sage to sleep mode. It there a way to make it automatically burn the DVD when the files are ready?

2. If I manually run the .bat file to burn the DVD, it writes the leadin then crashes writing the image. OK, nevermind that, it just worked with AnyDVD disabled, so if you have AnyDVD, disable it!

Also, my image is slightly too large for the DVD. I read earlier in this post that it would reduce the image size before burning, but something isn't set up right for that to happen on my end. Sorry for the double post on this issue, but what do I need to get this to work as well?

My workstation is set to all three mode for DVD creation.

Thanks!

If the image is too large, than that means my bitrate equations messed up. A quick fix would be to open perl2dvd.advanced.pref and change

DVD: Target DVD Size in billion bytes =4.65

But to really help me out you could set

General: Save work folder log files to zip (0 means false, 1 means true) =1

recreate the dvd that was too big, and email me the zip file that gets created

[mattybonez]

Hi --

Originally Posted by phunny

I am running V6.0.18.118 I already changed by STV when I loaded version 6 with Comskip and that is working.

I then tried to load the DVD Burning STVI and import it. Three times I tried it said it did but when I now click on a recoding I don't see the burning option. I installed the DIRmone and imgburn. I also lost the Google choice I noticed under media options. I only have weather as a choice.

Any ideas what to do?

I had the same issue with as you. I exited Sage and checked the Sage.properties file. The evilpenguin/dvd/enabled setting in Sage.properties was set to "false". I change the value to "true" and when I reopened Sage, the "burn to DVD" option was there.

After that, the utility worked flawlessly.

Good Luck,
Mattybonez

[rsagetv99]

where do we send zipped error logs to?

[pitir]

Originally Posted by mattybonez

Hi --



I had the same issue with as you. I exited Sage and checked the Sage.properties file. The evilpenguin/dvd/enabled setting in Sage.properties was set to "false". I change the value to "true" and when I reopened Sage, the "burn to DVD" option was there.

After that, the utility worked flawlessly.

Good Luck,
Mattybonez

I'm having the same issue, but I don't have an evilpenguin setting in my sage.properties file. Sage never seems to get the DVD options after running the STVi.

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

where do we send zipped error logs to?

Evil, did you get my error logs?

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

Evil, did you get my error logs?

No it didn't go through, can you just attach it to the forum?

[rsagetv99]

Here's one, I have two more if you need them.

EDIT: It was too big so I removed the CleanNCut batch log (11Mb) let me know if you need that one, but I did not see any errors in it.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

Here's one, I have two more if you need them.

EDIT: It was too big so I removed the CleanNCut batch log (11Mb) let me know if you need that one, but I did not see any errors in it.

Ok, got the log file, now I just need to know what I'm looking for

edit: Ok judging from the size of the CleanNCut batch file and the fact that it took 8 hours to complete I'm guessing the problem is with your version of mencoder.

Try downloading this version of mplayer, and replace my mencoder with this new one.

[Homebuilder]

Hi, Just installed sagetv 6.19. Tried to install the DVD Burn as instructed but doesnt seem to work.

What I have and what I did...

Sage Server Did not install any dvd burn stuff.
Sage client..

installed dirmon2 on client, didnt even open after install
installed imgburn on client, didnt even open after install

Ran perl 2dvd... on config, selected 1,2,3 ( all on this machine) Keep in mind the files to be burned are on the server.
Said edit out commercials... but no showanalyzer is installed yet..

For work folder, I selected to keep on client, C:sageothers/work

imported both stvi's
added other programs screen.

restarted...

First tried burn to video dvd on an imported divx... didnt do anything.

Then tried burn to dvd on 3 imported mpeg2 files.
Files show up in other programs, but nothing else...

put in blank DVD...

Looked in sage others:

have three short cuts and three jpegs for the three shows I tried to burn... but doesnt seem to be burning.
No logs in work folder...


Questions...

can I do all three parts on one client, and nothing on server?

Can work folder be on client in sageothers folder?

Will it prompt for a blank DVD is none in dvd player?

Do I need to somehow config dirmon to auto start? or was that done in the per2dvd script?


What am I missing LOL ?

[Homebuilder]

Anyone?

[evilpenguin]

Ok, first thing to check is if there are any qdvd files in your qdvdfolder. If there are, then make sure that dirmon is running and is monitoring that directory.

Let me know if those things are working.

[Homebuilder]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Ok, first thing to check is if there are any qdvd files in your qdvdfolder. If there are, then make sure that dirmon is running and is monitoring that directory.

Let me know if those things are working.

Found the qdvd folder, has files in it...

Wasnt dirmon supposed to be set up automatically?

Opening up task manager, I do not see what could be dirmon.

When I open the dirmon GUI, I see an entry under job management for perl2dvd.

Under global settings, have a place to check to start automatically as service... its not checked. Next to that check box it says current status not installed ( that mean service isnt installed? Dirmon has to be installed since I am looking at it.. )

So.. do I just check that box? or? how should I set up dirmon to work with dvdburn?

Thanks,
Neal

[evilpenguin]

Read this link, it should get you going...

http://zadigian.backpackit.com/pub/836584

[nyplayer]

EP,

Something is wrong with my UNC path translation can you look at it.

Translate full paths to UNC paths =m:\sagem::\\janedserver\m$\sagem,=n:\sagen::\\janedserver\n$\sagen,=o:\sagem::\\janedserver\o$\sageo

Thanks

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

EP,

Something is wrong with my UNC path translation can you look at it.

Translate full paths to UNC paths =m:\sagem::\\janedserver\m$\sagem,=n:\sagen::\\janedserver\n$\sagen,=o:\sagem::\\janedserver\o$\sageo

Thanks

You shouldn't need those extra '=', just the first one.

=m:\sagem::\\janedserver\m$\sagem,n:\sagen::\\janedserver\n$\sagen,o:\sagem::\\janedserver\o$\sageo