[vdr] Re: Howto place multiple recordings to one DVD?

[peter.dittmann@philips.com]

I use 0.0.12j too and it still fails on the Philips code.

I don't know if DVDAuthor is to blaim.
The structures in the IFO files seem resonable (IfoEdit).
The only anomaly seems that VMGM_PGCI_UT->LU_1 seems to contain a first menu with zero cells (which is legal but I havn't seen that on commercial discs).

Anyway I'm working on the Philips code for an automotive system and it seems an internal race condition in the code.
It tries to pause the still-picture-VOBS at it's end but realises that the presentation thread is allready finished.
So it end up in error correction which means it's skipping to the next VOBS. Which in turn goes to the next menu.
It seems some kind of design error caused by extremely short VOBS + the sequence in VMGM_PGCI_UT

I had to create a nasty hotfix to ignore this condition and to fake the still.
So my self recorded DVD run ok now on our automotive system ;-)

You may indirectly solve it if vdrconvert would allow video sequences in the menu that are  more than 1..2 seconds long.

Peter

P.S. before asking: our player code does not run on the Philips home player plattform; different interfaces



                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                        
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Andreas Breitenbach wrote:
> Juri Haberland wrote:
>>>
>>> I like to have more than recording on one single DVD, to save DVD space.
>>>
>>> Is there anybody out there who has already a solution for that issue?
>>
>> Well, vdrconvert already does it, at least for me. Just choose all
>> recordings and add them to the DVD list, then start the DVD build.
>
> Interesting!
>
> I tried it, but it does not accept more than one recording.
> Which version are you using?

I use 0.0.12j.

>> Unfortunately, all DVDs produced by vdrconvert/dvdauthor have problems
>> on my stand-alone Philips DVD player - the menus just show up for a
>> second then the recording starts. All software players show the menus as
>> they should. Must be a dvdauthor bug.
>
> Did you tried the dvdauthor patch?
>
> http://vdrconvert.vdr-portal.de/releases/index.html

Yes, I'm currenty using this version, but plan to update to the latest
together with a patch from the dvdauthor-users ML, which hopefully
resolve this problem. But using anything else than the version the
vdrconvert script was designed for is asking for trouble. So I'll have to
dig deeply into the scripts and the usage of dvdauthor :(

Cheers,
Juri



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