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spit2k1
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 Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:44 am |
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Hi Everyone!
As the original author of MythBurn plugin for MythTV I have pleasure in announcing a replacement for it. This new application is a joint effort between myself and Paul Harrison (Paul doing most of the work!!).
Its stored in SVN alongside the official mythtv source. Full details can be found at this location...
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythArchive
Main Features of the DVD creation part of MythArchive
* Creates DVD's complete with a themed menu structure
* New menu themes can easily be added
* By using different themes you can do things like create auto play DVD's that have no menus etc.
* Can use not only Myth recordings but also files from MythVideo and any file accessible from your file system
* Can use mythtranscode to cut out commercials from mpeg2 recordings.
* If a file isn't an mpeg2 file or the file doesn't have a DVD compliant resolution it will be re-encoded using ffmpeg so it is DVD compliant.
* Can use any video file that ffmpeg can decode and re-encode to mpeg2.
* Can re-encode the audio stream to ac3 for better compatibility in NTSC countries.
* Tries to select the best audio track based on what you have selected as your preferred languages in Myth
* Can support two audio tracks per title. (not tested fully)
* Can use single layer or dual layer dvdr's
* Can use rewritable DVD+/- RW
* Can force an erase of a rewritable disc
* Can create an ISO image that can be moved anywhere on your file system possibly so you can burn it on another machine.
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Greg Frost
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 2:42 am |
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Well, all I can say is wow and thank you from the mythtv community.
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chopsuey
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 7:19 am |
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Yes thank you for you great contribution!
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jbman
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:59 am |
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very nice addition indeed. Will be keen to try this out and see how it works. Any reason why it needs to use a current svn?
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spit2k1
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:09 am |
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jbman wrote: very nice addition indeed. Will be keen to try this out and see how it works. Any reason why it needs to use a current svn?
Theres a complete mythui interface which I believe needs v18 of myth to work.
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cesman
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 10:25 am |
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From reading the page on the wiki, it looks like it needs SVN. I pulled an CVS from sourceforge a few days (before the announcement) ago however that wouldnt compile.
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misterflibble
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 12:52 pm |
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I compiled mytharchive and the most recent mythtv svn today without any problems. My first try was with a recovered recording that mythburn kept failing with. Unfortunately it failed because its date was apparently not right (in fact, it says 1969). Next I tried the new video transcode to put some AVIs on a disc, because that feature's too cool to pass up. The script failed when it hit some files that had apostrophes in them. I renamed the files and reselected them, but I noticed that the old names were still in the list when it came time to choose which to put on a dvd. Everything looked good this time, it managed to convert them to dvd format nicely after a few hours. Unfortunately it then bombed out on spumux using the mythcenter theme because the button coordinates were out of range (maybe I had too many recordings selected for the mythcenter theme?) Still working on getting a disc out of it. But the problems don't seem that major and I'm sure I'll get it working soon. The themes are really top-notch. Good work!
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chopsuey
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:00 pm |
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Did you use the directions from the Wiki to compile from SVN?
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misterflibble
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:13 pm |
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chopsuey: yes, I think my only change was setting the prefix to /usr/ since that's what I did for mythtv. Some of those dependencies had to be installed too, namely python2.3-mysqldb, and python2.3-imaging (although I can't guarantee I got all of these right since I havent got a disc done yet). I also used the directions from http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page ... hTVFromSVN to recompile mythtv first.
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sgreene
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 7:10 pm |
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Any chance of a Gentoo ebuild?
Quote: the versions are what are being used by me on Gentoo
Thanks.
shg
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chopsuey
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 12:58 pm |
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I compiled the latest mythtv from SVN and also compiled MythArchive from SVN and I tried to record two shows to a DVD/RW and I received the following error.
Code: 2006-05-06 12:44:00 mythburn.py (0.1.200604-1) starting up...
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Obtaining MythTV settings from MySQL database for hostname mythtv
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Obtaining date and time settings from MySQL database for hostname mythtv
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Processing Mythburn job number 1.
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Options - mediatype = 2, doburn = 1, createiso = 0, erasedvdrw = 1
2006-05-06 12:44:01 savefilename = ''
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Looking for: /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/MythCenter/theme.xml
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Loading font 0, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 23
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Loading font 1, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 18
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Loading font 2, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 16
2006-05-06 12:44:01 wantIntro: 1, wantMainMenu: 1, wantChapterMenu:1, wantDetailsPage: 0
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Final DVD Video format will be ntsc
2006-05-06 12:44:01 There are 2 files to process
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Pre-processing file '1046_20060505210000.mpg' of type 'recording'
2006-05-06 12:44:01 Deadliest Catch
2006-05-06 12:44:02 Video resolution is 720 by 480
2006-05-06 12:44:02 Pre-processing file '1012_20060505200000.mpg' of type 'recording'
2006-05-06 12:44:02 NUMB3RS
2006-05-06 12:44:02 Video resolution is 720 by 480
2006-05-06 12:44:02 *************************************************************
2006-05-06 12:44:02 Processing file 1046_20060505210000.mpg of type recording
2006-05-06 12:44:02 *************************************************************
2006-05-06 12:44:02 File codec is 'mpeg2video'
2006-05-06 12:44:02 File has a cut list - attempting to run mythtrancode to remove unwanted segments
2006-05-06 12:48:16 ------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 2753, in ?
processJob(job)
File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 2557, in processJob
processFile(node,folder)
File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 2445, in processFile
video, audio1, audio2 = selectStreams(folder)
File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 2152, in selectStreams
infoDOM = xml.dom.minidom.parse(os.path.join(folder, 'streaminfo.xml'))
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1919, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
parser.Parse("", True)
ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
2006-05-06 12:48:17 ------------------------------------------------------------
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paulh
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 3:12 am |
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misterflibble wrote: I compiled mytharchive and the most recent mythtv svn today without any problems. My first try was with a recovered recording that mythburn kept failing with. Unfortunately it failed because its date was apparently not right (in fact, it says 1969). Next I tried the new video transcode to put some AVIs on a disc, because that feature's too cool to pass up. The script failed when it hit some files that had apostrophes in them. I renamed the files and reselected them, but I noticed that the old names were still in the list when it came time to choose which to put on a dvd. Everything looked good this time, it managed to convert them to dvd format nicely after a few hours. Unfortunately it then bombed out on spumux using the mythcenter theme because the button coordinates were out of range (maybe I had too many recordings selected for the mythcenter theme?) Still working on getting a disc out of it. But the problems don't seem that major and I'm sure I'll get it working soon. The themes are really top-notch. Good work!
Thanks for trying it out. Its only by people trying it that the bugs can be found and eliminated.
I've added a few things to my TODO list that need to be fixed. If you could figure out whats up with the mythcenter theme, which button is out of bounds, that would be great.
Thanks, Paul H.
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paulh
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 3:17 am |
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chopsuey
Could you show me the streaminfo.xml file that caused this error.
It will be in one of the directories of the 'work' directory which is in the temp directory you told mytharchive to use.
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chopsuey
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:24 am |
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I tried to reproduce the error by doing the exact same thing and for some reason it completed without errors this time. I popped the DVD into my DVD player and everything looked great. If I come across this error again I will make sure to send you the streaminfo.xml file.
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misterflibble
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:34 am |
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Paulh: I'm in the process of a move right now, but as soon as I have my myth box running again, I'll try to reproduce the issue.
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