I am trying to use dvd-slideshow with an input file of jpegs and mp3 music. I am having the issue with ffmpeg quiting during final processing. I've tried to get the option to use mpeg2enc working and can't get it accepted. Here is my command line (I'm in the directory with all the components):

dvd-slideshow -mpeg2enc -f file.txt

I get an error that says "Input file -mpeg2enc does not exist"

If I put the -mpeg2enc after the -f option it gets ignored. I can't find an alternate option to include in the input file. Any ideas?

I'm running Kubuntu 7.10, all current, with dvd-slideshow, ffmpeg, etc. from the standard repositories.

TIA

Hi, I haven't used dvd-slideshow in a recent version of ubuntu, but in the past I couldn't get it to work. I tried out a version of fedora, I think it was fedora 6, and that worked. I eventually put in a fedora virtual machine just to use dvd-slideshow. I think the issue is that some of the programs dvd-slideshow depends on keeps changing the syntax of it's options, so it ends up being a little hit and miss. I would think putting everything you need into one big binary would solve this issue, with versions of those programs that you know for certain work, but they won't do that. I don't know why. My best advice, try a few other distro's out in virtualbox or vmware, and see if any of those work.

Good luck...let us know if you got anything to work...and how...

David

I'm using dvd-slideshow on Mandriva 2008, and it works on Mandriva. I know this doesn't fix your problem, but as budword says....

I looked at the man page, and as far as I can see, what you are entering looks to me as if it should work. If you find a fix, please post...

I found out that the -mpeg2enc option requires version 0.8.0. It wasn't part of earlier releases. I got a .deb of it from sourceforge and installed it. Then using the -nosmp -mp2 and -mpeg2enc options I got it to work. Then I found you need to use a "subtitle_type=render" in the input file to get the subtitles to show up on any given slide. I also added the following to that file to get nice looking subtitles:

subtitle_color="white"
subtitle_outline_color="#948568"
subtitle_font_size=24

The -w option on the command line also gives great results for wide screen TVs.

I'm still playing with it and learning as I go.