STV Import: SageMC Video Tools v2.0.1a (2/02/07)

[evilpenguin]

Ok, I know I'm starting to become the dev who cried 'plug-in', but I just hit a new and overly dramatic snag...

The Great News: I got a fantastic new job yesterday
The Good News: I'm only a few STVi tweaks away from being finished
The Bad News: I may have just signed a contract that says I can't finish this plug-in

So, long story short, I just need to run this by some people and show them that the only thing this plug-in is a threat to is good coding practices and then I'm back in business. But until that happens (hopefully very soon) I pretty much have my hands tied. Sorry!

[CadErik]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

The Bad News: I may have just signed a contract that says I can't finish this plug-in

Wow... hard to believe some people wouldn't want that plugin released... unless something about that is patented?? This sucks big time... I was very much looking forward to use it. Could you at least help fixing the 2.0.1a and get it working? If you could tell me where to look for having the menu send to working I would just do it.
If there is anything legal involved the "new" version might not see the light in this decade.

Erik

[evilpenguin]

No, its just that part of my new company does DVD software and, even though there's no overlap, I need to make absolutly sure this doesn't break any of the moonlighting policies. Its more me being extra careful then someone telling me to stop. As much as I love Sage, I love a paycheck even more

[CadErik]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

No, its just that part of my new company does DVD software and, even though there's no overlap, I need to make absolutly sure this doesn't break any of the moonlighting policies. Its more me being extra careful then someone telling me to stop. As much as I love Sage, I love a paycheck even more

Yeah I see makes sense. However you would not need to release anything per see... your project is GPL so if everything is commited in the project repository anyone could do it.
Also I wouldn't have any problem paying for a dvd plugin. I have to confess that I have even been thinking about BTV

Erik

[fyodor]

Do you think that you'll be able finish the non-dvd-burning parts of the plugin(i.e. normal video transcoding/recompression)?

[alon24]

Originally Posted by fyodor

Do you think that you'll be able finish the non-dvd-burning parts of the plugin(i.e. normal video transcoding/recompression)?

I seond that - for default stv

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by alon24

I seond that - for default stv

I'm sure that when it's released, there will also be an import for the default STV

John

[fyodor]

Hey Evilpenguin, has this been put on hold? Have you irresponsibly allowed your new job to interfere with your obligation to develop new software for us for free?

[motobarsteward]

OK, I've re-installed Sage 6.1 Client and followed the instructions to the letter. Any idea why I don't get the 'Send to DVD' options? I do get the ones under SageMC option and they are both set to enable so I think the import of the STVi went ok. Which STVi import ?button do I click? The one under settings or the one under setting-detailed setup

[edbmdave]

I have followed the instructions (as best I can..)

I installed DirMon2, ImgBurn, and uncompressed the zip using Winrar to my sagetv\sagetv directory.

I then run perl2dvdsetup, press enter on the wait for dirmon2 and sagetv to exit (they are not running), then selection options 1,2,3 for functions. (this is installed on a sagetv client.)

Next it prompts for the sagetv directory, but nothing I do will get me past this. All I can do is Control+C it. I can't type in the direectory, I can't press enter and get to continue. Nothing.

I don't see any files created in the sagetv folder for prefs either...

Help!

[motobarsteward]

This had me going a few seconds.A file selection window has popped up. It's probably hidden under the DOS window that you are now using!

[toricred]

Would the problem with SageMC not using this compression for auto compression be in this plugin or in MC? That's the only thing I really need right now. Everything else would be gravy.

[opy01]

I got everything installed per the intructions. I also assume I need to have DirMon2 running as a service, so I do. I told sage to compress a video and the qdvd file is created in the qdvd folder. Not too long after that a log file is created but the video is not compressed. In the Other programs folder in my C drive there are files created in there for the video I want compressed. Any clue on what to check would be great.

Edit: I got it. It does not work unless I have the "Other Programs" menu enabled in SageMC. I dont know why it wasnt enabled, maybe something to do with the iTV plug-in, but as soon as I enabled it they started compessing. Not bad either, 2 Gig file down to 500 Megs, I am really impressed. It never fails, I play with it for a couple of hours before asking for help and as soon as I ask for help I figure it out.

[toricred]

Any news on a possible update? If not, any suggestions on how to use a newer version of mencoder.exe?

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by toricred

Any news on a possible update? If not, any suggestions on how to use a newer version of mencoder.exe?

You can just replace the version of mencoder in the perl2dvd directory with the version you want.

John

[toricred]

I tried the latest version included with mediacoder and nothing would compress.

All I got were errors.

[toricred]

My real problem is the the volume on all the files that are compressed is really low. Maybe there's a way to adjust this in the profile?

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by toricred

I tried the latest version included with mediacoder and nothing would compress.

All I got were errors.

I just use one of the mencoder builds from here with no problems

John

[nyplayer]

toricred


If you are going to use Mencoder from mediacoder you need to copy additional DLLs over. What I did was copy everything over but did not include FFMPEG that is in the codec folder and everything works great.

Do not copy over the FFMPEG over because the version FFMPEG included in perldvd uses MPS to figure out bitrate and the the one included with mediacoder uses KPS.

[toricred]

I didn't read your entire post before I copied them all over and started several compressions. I stopped after only a couple and replaced ffmpeg. I haven't watched any of them so I don't know how bad it is yet.

By the way, how do I modify the profile to handle audio differently or can I just create a new profile?