Will do. I'll try it again tonight.

I asked:

>How about chapters? I just backed up Jerry Maguire and it has no chapters or at least when I hit the next chapter button it stops. Bad burn maybe or try again? Any way to adjust chapters? Like put them every 5 or 10 minutes?


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I think you got cut off?

I'm still getting movies without chapters so I'd like to just manually insert/specify them if possible. Is there a way to specify chapters every 5 or 10 minutes?

I haven't had time for programming lately.

you can manually insert chapters like so usually:

To add chapters every 10 minutes, do

and then...

Hi,

I've used your latest dvrequant script (0.182b_fixed) to backup 2 dvds so far. I've tested the backup via Xine and everything is working as it should be. But if I try my backup with my standalone player then the chapters are not working, when I press the >>| key then it go the beginning (so first chapter). I've noticed with Xine that the chapters are very small. maybe because you don't generate an xml file for dvdauthor???

Another thing, I've backuped an old film with a single mono sound track, and the sound has 0 for AID, so I have to hack your script to change the default 128 to 0 (because it didn't take it in consideration if I enter 0).

A part of that the movies are looking good on my standalone player... :-)

Just a stupid question, why did you restrict the number of sound tracks to 2? dvdauthor accepts a maximum of 8 sound tracks. maybe to get a better quality on the movie???

Regards,
Ced.

The chaptering did not work for your movie. It is a known bug on certain movies. I am working on it.

What you can fo for now is take the final.mpg file and feed it to Varsha DVD and specify 5 minutes interval chaptering. It's not the original chapters, but it does the job until I fix this for those movies that don't seem to work.

I will modify the code to accept such AID's.

Exactly.


New version 0.19b will be released this week. I will post when it's up on sourceforge.

For the first time I succesfully used the software K9copy from: http://k9copy.free.fr/

It is essentially the closest thing to Dvdshrink on Windows you can get on Linux with a nice GUI and all.

At fisrt it was buggy, but now the new version works well. It's a little slow, but no more than Dvdshrink on Windows XP.

It keeps all original content, chapters, etc...but shrinks it to fit 4.7gb DVD's.

You can choose which audio tracks and subtitles you get to keep, but you don't have a choice to discard movie title and only keep the ones you want.

It also autoburns the disc with K3B if you want.

The resulting disk works very well, BUT!!! Ther is a but. The video compression is not that good. Compared to using to using my script dvrequant the quality is not too ggod. The more movement on screen, the more macroblocks you see.

Maybe the author would need to change his requantization method.

Anyhow I still see usefullness for dvrequant. It's fast and simple and it keeps what we want to see. The main movie.

Version 0.19b on the verge of being released. A few more test. Chaptering works very well now and it's faster than before.

I tried to get k9copy to work but could not. It made a file that was too big to fit on a dvd, when I tried to burn it later k3b failed:
I tried to report this as a bug but the built in bug report on under the help menu would not accept it (some sort of no authorization has been given rejection). I also could not report it on kde's bugzilla, could not make it through the menu driven report process as it was not possible to enter k9copy as the application name. I reported all this to contact k9copy@free.fr but have received no reply. Guess they just don't care.

Also found it was very slow, Dvdshrink running under wine was at least twice as fast.

I have used your dvrequant a few times & like it but usually I want the 'features' as well as the main movie so most often use Dvdshrink/wine.

bump for the new version... can we have alpha release? :-)

Alpha released just for you guys...go to sourceforge and d/l it.

It works well so far as i know. Please report any bug..here or in source forge...but here I get to see faster.

Looks like some good changes. The chapter parsing is still not working 100% for me. I found that the second fractions are breaking the sed parsing in the unformat time routine. The fix for me was to cut the fraction from the chapter time as it is grepped from the track. I changed the CH_LIST line to cut the second fraction at that point eliminating the problem at the unformat_time routine.

SO:

CH_LIST=$( lsdvd -c -t $1 2>&1 | grep "Chapter:" | sed -r -e 's/^.* Length: ([^,]+).*$/\1/' )

becomes:

CH_LIST=$( lsdvd -c -t $1 2>&1 | grep "Chapter:" | sed -r -e 's/^.* Length: ([^,]+).*$/\1/' | cut -d\. -f1 )

That fixed it for me. (I think).

Just a cosmetic note. The log file has had the . removed in this version. For consistency I added the "." back to the log filename.

Good work! Thanks for all the effort..

Thanks for your feedback.

That was deliberate because as it is more practical for me to look for the file, but your right that it is unconventional for a log file. I will put it back the way it was.

As for your CH_LIST modification, as far as you know, if I use your version instead of mine, could it create problems on other platforms?

I can't think of a problem. The change is actually rather benign. Just a simple 'cut' command to pass the time without the fraction.

What you are seeing as:

00:09:16.253
00:09:39.286
00:08:10.143
00:09:49.210
00:10:55.143
00:13:35.043
00:08:06.186
00:08:48.053
00:12:05.010
00:13:27.286
00:07:41.076
00:13:20.120


Is being cut back to the following in my version.

00:09:16
00:09:39
00:08:10
00:09:49
00:10:55
00:13:35
00:08:06
00:08:48
00:12:05
00:13:27
00:07:41
00:13:20


This results in the sed command in the unformat_time routine not seeing the fraction at all.

I'm back! Steel_J, thanks for your help. Sorry I haven't replied in a while. After my last e-mail, I lost a close granmother and just decided to let a lot of stuff slide for a while. Eventually I'd like to try your program again because of it's great speed and simplicity. Perhaps after I get around to building a new machine I'll give it another go. This one seems to have problems. Thanks again.

Hey Morbid!

Sorry for your loss.

If you need to run your ideas for you new machine by someone before you buy don't be shy and post..I'll be happy to provide a second opinion...

As for dvrequant it will keep it's utility as a command line utility. Just like Tovid among all those GUI utilities popping up all over the place. For my part I use Tovid on de CLI. I don't use the GUI.

I will keep develloping and updating it but I have no plans to create a GUI for it.Second, diversity is the base of success and open source creation is driven by this. The more people work on creating a way to get something done, the more we get toward our common goal, which in this case is makink backup copies of our DVD movies...Hahahaha!

Linux, just like UNIX as managed to conserve it's most basic software principle: Do one thing, but do it well and do it fast.

Allright Boxcar.

I'am keeping your idea for version 0.19b