Reading the myth wiki description of using MythArchive, I should be able to change the images used in the chapter menus, etc by highlighting a recording to change on the last create dvd screen by pressing info.

When I do this the DVD size slide bar changes value (from SL to DL and back).

Has anyone been able to change these thumbnail images? I'm using the keyboard because I don't have a menu key on my remote so I'm pretty sure I'm using the right keys.

This is with stock R5E50. I did a search but didn't see any others with this issue.

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I read that as well, I have R5D1 w/.20 mythtv and I was looking for the same function, I thought the wiki mentioned an info button, I assumed in R5E50 the new Mytharchive GUI mode would have the INFO button I seem to be lacking. Maybe lacking isn't quite accurate, I believe if I select a recording an select the guide/menu button on the remote it does give me access to some of the items "title/thumbnails/etc?" I want to say it was under DVD root.

From the wiki I believe the thumb selection is done on a different screen. The select function changing the text details does work for me, but on a later screen you should be able to select the thumbnails.

I poked around in the scripts implementing this and it looked like I should also be able to choose the thumbnail by setting a bookmark in the video. That didn't seem to work either though.

I also have some issues on created iso (on disk). There is no highlight on the DVD menus so its difficult to navigate. I'm not even sure I'm having any affect without the visual feedback. This happens with the mythcenter and another theme (whose name escapes me), but I haven't tried the minimal (sic) theme yet.

When I created an iso of two movies, I get a successful iso, menus, music, but the movie itself is a wavy mess (like bad vertical sync, but the image does not roll). This is perhaps because of the way I'm playing it back, 'mplayer iso_file', maybe I need some other params, but I haven't checked the man page yet (but menus are displayed fine).

On another test iso with 8 cartoons, at least the first program played ok, didn't check all the way through or check a different cartoon. Still had the menu selection issue.

I'll keep poking at it...

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I'm running R5D1 with the .20 updated using the instructions provided by Cecil.

I was able to change the lead in image once, but now even though the displayed image from the menus is different. The lead in image created on the DVD is always the same.

I have never been able to create a good DVD. Even though the menus are displayed the content only ever contains 3 minutes of the program.

There must be a few bugs around.

I don't think the thumbnail selector is in R5E50. That change went into mythtv svn in early December (r12195). What's the svn change list cut off in R5E50?

The version used in R5E50 should only be two change lists entries back from the head of the 0.20-fixes branch. It was taken at changelist #12306, the only newer updates under /branches/release-0-20-fixes are:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/12325
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/12376

(Note that SVN lists the highest change list current at the time you checkout/sync even if it doesn't affect your branch. The last change on the 0.20 branch which is included is 12288.)

The thumbnail selector is only available on the svn trunk version. I've added a note to the wiki page to make that clear.

As for the other problems noted on this thread - All I can say is I've created maybe 100+ DVDs with > 99% success. I can only fix problems that I can reproduce.

One of the big problems is there is a lot of different programs required to create a DVD and any one of them could be causing problems. Even worse is one combination of tools may work fine on one distribution but not on another.

To give an example. I worked with one chap to help to find out what was causing the disappearing menu highlight problem that mlbuser mentions. We eventually tracked the fault down to what version of mplex he was using on Fedora Core. Downgrading to 1.8.0 fixed it for him. Someone else had exactly the same problem but was using a different distribution. I recommended he try the same version of mplex but he still had the same problem. So as you can see if things don't work it can be a nightmare finding out exactly why.

One tip to help create DVDs successfully if you use a PVR-x50 card make sure you set the recording profile so it creates DVD compatible files. That mainly means setting the resolution to one of the compliant DVD resolutions. That will mean there is no need to re-encode the file. It makes creating the DVD much quicker and eliminates one of the steps where things can go wrong.

If you use DVB make sure you have a good signal. The file may play fine in Myth but most of the tools needed to process the files don't like corrupted files caused by a bad signal.

I followed the thread paulh mentioned on gossamer threads (though I couldn't turn it up yesterday). Most of the versions in R5E50 are beyond the ones mentioned there.

Some of my recordings are DVD compliant (well 704x480), some aren't (480x480). This doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. ISOs created with the 480 source seemed to transcode just fine, while a movie recorded at 704x480 had many corruptions in the MPEG stream according to the mythburn log, and even the one that had no errors still generated the wavy ISO. The intermediate output mpg file (from work/1) played ok though so it was something about going to DVD format perhaps.

Anyway I will do some more experiments as I'd really like to get the 35 episodes of TheTick off my HD. I'm going to concentrate on getting DVD navigation working as that's really key. Individual recordings will have their issues, but that's affected a great deal by the recording quality which probably varies.

The thumb selection is not a big deal, it will come in a later release, I was just confused because the wiki generally reflects the latest svn while KM is a snapshot.

I regenerated an iso last night and I think this one is ok. Instead of 'mplayer mythburn.iso' I used xine:



xine does show the menu highlights and I can view the individual episodes. I couldn't find the scene selections (submenus), but I really don't care about those. I'll burn a disc tonight and see if it plays in a standalone player and myth DVD drive.

Burned a DVD-DL fine last night. It plays great on myth, but in my standalone phillips player it doesn't look very good. The picture is jumpy, something similar to how a low refresh rate monitor looks, but worse than that. Menus and episodes all behave the same. On my windows box it won't play at all as XP complains about my DVD-ROM region code, thanks MS.

So it does what I need, but I'm somewhat disappointed I can only view it with mythtv.

Obvious question here, have you set up the correct Video Format in MythArchive Settings (Utilities/Setup->Setup->Media Settings->Archive Files Settings)?
Bruce S.

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