On 03/10/2010 00:54, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2010/10/02 17:53 (GMT+0100) David Coe composed:
>
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>> dvdauthor -o outputlocation -x filename.xml -t "Name of the Recording"
>
>>> which produced the following output:
>
>>> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.18.
>>> Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi
>>> Send bugs to<dvdauthor-us...@lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>>> ERR:  Unknown XML node type 10
>
> I asked on the dvdauthor mailing list. The answer there is the XML file is
> improper format for dvdauthor, needing to be<!DOCTYPE dvbauthor>  instead of
> <!DOCTYPE dvbcut>. No way from looking at the dvdauthor man page for me to
> figure out the difference.
>
>>> Dropping the -t option produced no difference in result. I looked on
>>> http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ and Googled without finding any 
>>> explanation
>>> for that message.
>
>> Could you compare the output of your "filename.xml" with the dvbcut's
>> on-screen output for options #1 or #2? They should look similar (even
>> identical) and be recognisable XML scripts.
>
> To me, big difference:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/dvbcut-xmloutput.txt
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/dvbcut-exportwindow-menu1.txt

The bit that you want is at the end of your second file:

<dvdauthor dest="movietitle">
   <vmgm />
     <titleset>
         <titles>
               <pgc>
                       <vob file="movietitle-1.mpg" 
chapters="00:00:00.000,00:01:14.441,00:05:01.267,00:10:03.002,00:15:55.854,00:20:36.668,00:24:40.579,00:29:58.229,00:35:43.307,00:42:32.950,00:48:04.815,00:52:53.770,00:59:44.280,01:02:44.560,01:07:26.709,01:10:15.511,01:14:27.429,01:18:59.301,01:21:19.140,01:25:22.450"
 
/>
                       <vob file="movietitle-2.mpg" 
chapters="00:00:00.000,00:01:14.441,00:05:01.267,00:10:03.002,00:15:55.854,00:20:36.668,00:24:40.579,00:29:58.229,00:35:43.307,00:42:32.950,00:48:04.815,00:52:53.770,00:59:44.280,01:02:44.560,01:07:26.709,01:10:15.511,01:14:27.429,01:18:59/>
               </pgc>
         </titles>
     </titleset>
</dvdauthor>

where I've cut-and-pasted a second MPG file to show how it's done :-).

> Note there seems other trouble. VLC (1.2.0-git) pretends to play the content
> in the .mpg dir created by dvbcut export menu option 5, but it's audio only.
> When I export with dvbcut menu options 1 or 2, VLC does the same playback
> imitation as with the option 5 result. If I try menu options 3 or 4, dvbcut
> just exits.

You should be able to play both the original .ts and edited .mpg files 
in something like Mplayer. Jerky (on both Windows and Linux machines) 
may mean defective codecs or not enough CPU horsepower.

I use one of the two MPEG Program Stream/DVD options. Usually it's #1 
(DVBcut multiplexer) but sometimes #3 (libavformat) handles a dirty 
signal a bit better.

> Then again, the #1 menu option .mpg does play (jerky) in Kaffeine, and has no
> way I can see to skip to next/previous chapter to test if chapters got
> created. My STB that recorded the .TS in the first place also plays the mpeg
> (over the network), and also lacks ability to skip to chapters.

The MPG file produced by DVBcut is (very nearly) the transport stream 
produced your tuner. It doesn't know anything about chapters until you 
author your DVD, for example, with the above XML file driving dvdauthor.

>> I tend to assemble my DVDs from a composite XML file describing a
>> collection of broadcast and edited episodes so don't often use Ralph's
>> direct piping to dvbauthor.
>
> Likely I'll want to do that eventually, but for the time being I just want to
> be able to get some DVD resembling what's so easy to do recording an original
> program source with my Pioneers DVR-460&  DVR-633 OTA or from satellite (but
> with considerable quality loss).

You'll get there. There's shed-loads of documentation on all this sort 
of stuff - it's just scattered all over the place!

-- 
David Coe

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