Re: Dvdstyler question (Was: Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?)

[Z F]

--- Richard Rasker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Op maandag 10-12-2007 om 19:29 uur [tijdzone -0200], schreef flavio:
> > Mmmm I never really actually burned a dvd via DVDStyler, I
> usually
> > create an .iso image to be burned via k3b. But i could be that...
> > 
> > Error executing dvdauthor -o "/home/rr/dvd/dvd/" -x
> > "/home/rr/dvd/dvd/dvdauthor.xml"
> > 
> > ...sometimes i remember having some errors that would be because I
> had
> > done something with the folder or it was pointing to a wrong
> > direction. I see there are two dvd folders there, do they really
> > exist? Check where the dvdauthor.xml ism, if it is inside that
> folder.
> > I know this sound stupid but it was something I would do from time
> to
> > time and then the program wouldn't work. But in my case I guess it
> > wouldn't even pass the xine preview though. 
> 
> 
> Yes, the folder /home/rr/dvd/dvd/ exists, and it contains the three
> files dvdauthor.xml, menu1-0.mpg and title0-0-0.vob.
> 
> dvdauthor.xml:
> 
> 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> jump titleset 1 menu;
>   
> 
>   
>   
> 
>   
>   
> samenwerken
> 
>   
> 
> 
>   
>  chapters="15:00,30:00,45:00,1:00:00,1:15:00,1:30:00,1:45:00,2:00:00"
> file="/home/rr/dvd/dvd/title0-0-0.vob"/>
> call vmgm menu 1;
>   
> 
>   
> 
> 
> 
> All seems fine, as far as I can tell ... but then again, I'm not 100%
> certain -- I don't use GUI apps to go digging deep into xml file
> formats
> and commands. I'll check out what QDVDauthor does, though.

Dear Richard,

I am not 100% sure, but I think that the button is not defined
correctly.

instead of "samenwerken" it should have something like "jump titleset 1
title 1;" (without the "" marks...)

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Re: Dvdstyler question (Was: Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?)

[Richard Rasker]

Op maandag 10-12-2007 om 19:29 uur [tijdzone -0200], schreef flavio:
> Mmmm I never really actually burned a dvd via DVDStyler, I usually
> create an .iso image to be burned via k3b. But i could be that...
> 
> Error executing dvdauthor -o "/home/rr/dvd/dvd/" -x
> "/home/rr/dvd/dvd/dvdauthor.xml"
> 
> ...sometimes i remember having some errors that would be because I had
> done something with the folder or it was pointing to a wrong
> direction. I see there are two dvd folders there, do they really
> exist? Check where the dvdauthor.xml ism, if it is inside that folder.
> I know this sound stupid but it was something I would do from time to
> time and then the program wouldn't work. But in my case I guess it
> wouldn't even pass the xine preview though. 


Yes, the folder /home/rr/dvd/dvd/ exists, and it contains the three
files dvdauthor.xml, menu1-0.mpg and title0-0-0.vob.

dvdauthor.xml:



  

  

jump titleset 1 menu;
  

  
  

  
  
samenwerken

  


  

call vmgm menu 1;
  

  



All seems fine, as far as I can tell ... but then again, I'm not 100%
certain -- I don't use GUI apps to go digging deep into xml file formats
and commands. I'll check out what QDVDauthor does, though.

Thanks for the reply, best regards,

Richard Rasker


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Re: Dvdstyler question (Was: Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?)

[flavio]

Mmmm I never really actually burned a dvd via DVDStyler, I usually
create an .iso image to be burned via k3b. But i could be that...

Error executing dvdauthor -o "/home/rr/dvd/dvd/" -x
> "/home/rr/dvd/dvd/dvdauthor.xml"


...sometimes i remember having some errors that would be because I had done
something with the folder or it was pointing to a wrong direction. I see
there are two dvd folders there, do they really exist? Check where the
dvdauthor.xml ism, if it is inside that folder. I know this sound stupid but
it was something I would do from time to time and then the program wouldn't
work. But in my case I guess it wouldn't even pass the xine preview though.

Dvdstyler question (Was: Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?)

[Richard Rasker]

Op zaterdag 08-12-2007 om 10:26 uur [tijdzone -0200], schreef flavio:
> > QDVDAuthor  is an
> excellent DVD
> > Authoring GUI that pretty much does it all. Its come a long
> way and
> > will do just about everything you need to do for your DVD's,
> > including encoding the video.
> 
> Seems It can't make animated stylish menus like in big guy's
> DVDs.
> 
> 
> Talking about GUIs, QDVDAuthor has always been very promissing but
> also very unstable. I use and recommend DVDStyler (also based on
> dvdauthor), their documentation is also quite clear and the software
> is really easy to use. If you get the time to study spumux, dvdauthor
> and their xml, you'll be able to get very far, I myself have made a
> DVD that had like 100 menus and about 3000 navigation buttons. It'll
> be easier though to do complex structures like this via xml, not the
> GUI. 

Hello,
Now that you mention dvdstyler: I have an annoying problem with it
(version 1.5.1), and perhaps someone here can tell me what goes wrong.
Adding m2v and ac3 files (rendered with Cinelerra), a background, and
buttons etcetera all works just fine, but when given the command to
actually burn a DVD, it encounters an error when executing dvdauthor:

Generating DVD
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi 
Send bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
INFO: Locale=nl_NL.UTF-8
INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
ERR:  Parse error 'syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting COLON_TOK' on token 
'' 
ERR:  Parser failed on code 'samenwerken'.
Error executing dvdauthor -o "/home/rr/dvd/dvd/" -x 
"/home/rr/dvd/dvd/dvdauthor.xml"

Does anyone know what causes this? It's a bit annoying, because it seems
my DVD project stumbles at one of the final hurdles ...

And oh, would using QDVDAuthor make any difference? I believe it also
relies on dvdauthor, so I wonder if it'll make a real difference ...

Thanks in advance,

Richard Rasker


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RE: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

[Hannu Vuolasaho]

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?
> To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:25:17 -0800
> 
> 
> --- Hannu Vuolasaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Title 1 
> > chapter 1 scene 1 of the show
> > chapter 2 scene 2 of the show
> > chapter 20 scene 20 of the show
> > Title 2
> > chapter 1 interview 1
> > chapter 2 interview 2
> > Title 3
> > chapter 1 behind the scenes
> > 
> > Is there any easy way to get this kind of structure in DVD?
> 
> 
> Qdvdauthor should do the job for you.

I never learned use that program. Or atleast not yet. I felt it someway messy. 
I'll give it a try on next project.
> 

> However, the description of the menu you provided is incomple.
> Do you want buttons to go directly to chapters? or you simply
> what thee titles with chapeters in them?

Actually I did want scene selection but I didn't kow how to do it so I just 
drop it. My solution was to find some examples from the net and read man pages 
and modify them. Lot of command line processing. and trial and errors. And if 
my CPU could speak, it would whine about same jobs all the time :)

Anyway I have now the poster of the show and underneath there is two choises. 
The show and teaser. Show has chapters beginning at every scene. DVD player 
returns back menu after played title.
 Oh and most proud I'm the 7 second audio loop. It should at leas get watcher 
to choose what to watch. So irritating popsong.

I want to thank you guys for your pointers. I checked those aplications and 
documentations and I feel I save time because of you. And I think I've learnt 
something. And next project will be more beautiful and pro looking. Maybe I'll 
share the Valencia 2007 Las Fallas fireworks with you :) The editing wont be 
most important thing in that video :)

> Never could understand how to use DVDStyler though...

And first tool which was recomended by my friend for DVD creation was Pinnacle. 
I tried and wished myself back home to my slow PC (Dualcore Opteron). School 
has harder hardware for the rendering job.

I don't understand why it is so hard to support RAW, type 1 and type2 DV...

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Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

[Z F]

--- Hannu Vuolasaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have this small problem. In Cinelerras manual there is easy to
> follow instructions to make DVD. On track has been enough for me. I
> have this time edited the show ready and exported it to RAW DV.
> interviews and bhind of scenes are different RAW DV clips.
> 
> Now I want to split it to chapters and burn it to DVD. I've been
> reading different howtos trough but nothing answered my problem. 
> 
> Title 1 
> chapter 1 scene 1 of the show
> chapter 2 scene 2 of the show
> chapter 20 scene 20 of the show
> Title 2
> chapter 1 interview 1
> chapter 2 interview 2
> Title 3
> chapter 1 behind the scenes
> 
> Is there any easy way to get this kind of structure in DVD?


Qdvdauthor should do the job for you.

However, the description of the menu you provided is incomple.
Do you want buttons to go directly to chapters? or you simply
what thee titles with chapeters in them?
Do the titles have to play one after the other or at the end of each
it has to jump to the main menu? Think about this and qdvdauthor
mostlikely will do the job for you. Never could understand how to use
DVDStyler though...


  

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Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

[flavio]

>
> > QDVDAuthor  is an excellent DVD
> > Authoring GUI that pretty much does it all. Its come a long way and
> > will do just about everything you need to do for your DVD's,
> > including encoding the video.
>
> Seems It can't make animated stylish menus like in big guy's DVDs.


Talking about GUIs, QDVDAuthor has always been very promissing but also very
unstable. I use and recommend DVDStyler (also based on dvdauthor), their
documentation is also quite clear and the software is really easy to use. If
you get the time to study spumux, dvdauthor and their xml, you'll be able to
get very far, I myself have made a DVD that had like 100 menus and about
3000 navigation buttons. It'll be easier though to do complex structures
like this via xml, not the GUI.

The only thing I still wonder how to do is to create the choice for the
subtitle on the menu, like chosing MENU -> SUBTITLES and from there chosing
"english, spanish, portuguese" and pressing play on the video. I'll be very
grateful if anyone knows hos to do this.

Also, a very simple hit-and-run program is ManDVD. The simplest, very
efficient for simple jobs, I used it to do a 3-monitor installation that had
to run three different videos in sync without pressing play on the dvd.

Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

[Jonas Wulff]

With dvdauthor (not qdvdauthor, so no fancy gui) you can just use a mpeg
file as the menu background. 

A snippet of the dvdauthor xml file should look like this (assuming
this is menu #1 adressed in the  section)



jump title 10;
...
jump menu 1;



Jonas


On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 15:50:24 +0700
IL'dar AKHmetgaleev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Seems It can't make animated stylish menus like in big guy's DVDs.
> 

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Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

[IL'dar AKHmetgaleev]

На Sat, 8 Dec 2007 02:32:51 -0600
"Matt Pfingsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> записано:

> QDVDAuthor  is an excellent DVD
> Authoring GUI that pretty much does it all. Its come a long way and
> will do just about everything you need to do for your DVD's,
> including encoding the video.

Seems It can't make animated stylish menus like in big guy's DVDs.

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Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

[Matt Pfingsten]

QDVDAuthor  is an excellent DVD
Authoring GUI that pretty much does it all. Its come a long way and will do
just about everything you need to do for your DVD's, including encoding the
video.

On Dec 8, 2007 12:57 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Quoting Hannu Vuolasaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have this small problem. In Cinelerras manual there is easy to
> > follow instructions to make DVD. On track has been enough for me. I
> > have this time edited the show ready and exported it to RAW DV.
> > interviews and bhind of scenes are different RAW DV clips.
> >
> > Now I want to split it to chapters and burn it to DVD. I've been
> > reading different howtos trough but nothing answered my problem.
> >
> > Title 1
> > chapter 1 scene 1 of the show
> > chapter 2 scene 2 of the show
> > chapter 20 scene 20 of the show
> > Title 2
> > chapter 1 interview 1
> > chapter 2 interview 2
> > Title 3
> > chapter 1 behind the scenes
> >
> > Is there any easy way to get this kind of structure in DVD?
>
>
> As you probably realize, Cinelerra itself does not include DVD
> authoring. Once you have the video clips in MPEG2 format, you will
> need to use dvdauthor or something like it. I did a DVD similar to
> what you are describing (+ relatively complicated subtitling) by
> writing the input file for dvdauthor in a text editor and using the
> command line tools. This may or may not be 'an easy way' from your
> point of view. There are several graphical user interfaces for
> dvdauthor, so it should be possible to use it without writing the
> input commands. I'm not familiar with the GUIs.
>
> The somewhat sparse documentation for dvdauthor is at
>
> http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
>
> Mikko
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Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

[mhuhtala]

Quoting Hannu Vuolasaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



Hi!

I have this small problem. In Cinelerras manual there is easy to   
follow instructions to make DVD. On track has been enough for me. I   
have this time edited the show ready and exported it to RAW DV.   
interviews and bhind of scenes are different RAW DV clips.


Now I want to split it to chapters and burn it to DVD. I've been   
reading different howtos trough but nothing answered my problem.


Title 1
chapter 1 scene 1 of the show
chapter 2 scene 2 of the show
chapter 20 scene 20 of the show
Title 2
chapter 1 interview 1
chapter 2 interview 2
Title 3
chapter 1 behind the scenes

Is there any easy way to get this kind of structure in DVD?



As you probably realize, Cinelerra itself does not include DVD  
authoring. Once you have the video clips in MPEG2 format, you will  
need to use dvdauthor or something like it. I did a DVD similar to  
what you are describing (+ relatively complicated subtitling) by  
writing the input file for dvdauthor in a text editor and using the  
command line tools. This may or may not be 'an easy way' from your  
point of view. There are several graphical user interfaces for  
dvdauthor, so it should be possible to use it without writing the  
input commands. I'm not familiar with the GUIs.


The somewhat sparse documentation for dvdauthor is at

http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html

Mikko




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