Greets to the list,
I've been using linux systems for a long time now, since
before redhat 3.0.3 came out anyhow, I still remember
the 1.xx series linux kernels...it all seems like such a
long time ago. Due to some kind of self-inflicted terse
interpretation of the GNU GPL, I myself don't use any
mainstream linux distro -- I'll build my own the $LFS
way, and it must be nearly a decade I've been doing that.
Be warned - time gets away from you as you get older (;
I live in a quiet rural area of .au where one of the things
my time is taken up by, is the installation & support of
numerous linux systems owned by local folks, who have
switched OS because they're sick and tired of computer
viri, the perceived threat malicious softwares present to
certain OS/system structures, and having to pay for any
service or protection from such things....and this is more
so lately, since the financial crisis struck....most all of
the installations for others are debian 4 or 5....
I've been watching and using qdvdauthor for quite some
time too, and I think I may have joined this list because
the 1.9.0 release ..imho....marks a milestone as far as
qdvdauthor's evolution goes. A lot of mysterious things
present in previous releases have been fixed/addressed,
and 1.9.0 seems to be quite a bit more stable. That said,
the add videos dialog is still giving you the same odds
of causing qdvdauthor to segfault for no apparent reason,
You can avoid this a lot by creating a suitable working
environment for qdvdauthor, before you even start the
process of creating a dvd...ie; like directory and file
locations that you can navigate to with the add videos
dialog without coming across -any- other video files
along the way (which qdvdauthor will try to index for
you, regardless of whether or not they are the files
intended for the dvd ;)....
What *is* working properly in in 1.9.0, is the ability
to engage in a rolling session of menu creation and
customization, checking the results (the vobs & friends)
with qplayer, then going back to more menu editing,
recreate the dvd structure, check it again, and you can
do it for hours on end until your vision goes all fuzzy,
and not see anything go wrong. Previous versions did
some weird things using a work cycle like that, like
changes not sticking and so on (but if you saved the
project as <another name> and then loaded that saved
project the changes you made suddenly appear ;) Seems
all fixed in 1.9.0....and regarding a previous thread here
about what happens at the end of playing a video in a
submenu (jump to main), that's fixed in 1.9.0 too.
The fill% bar and project size calculations are all wrong
here -- in one of my current projects, it displays 57% ,
2.45gb ; I haven't done the math, but that appears to be
-twice- the actual size (k3b reports the size to be 1.28gb
or such using the create video dvd dialog). Sometimes
I think PAL versus NTSC settings affects this..but then,
1.7.0 was getting this right...I think....
The rolling session thang above actually works so well,
I miss not having a call to qplayer (perhaps in tools) so
I can quickly pick up where I left off...play what you've
done to remind yourself what you were going to do next,
but currently I have to redo the create dvd thing (just the
menus) to get back to qplayer (inside qdvdauthor itself,
working on that actual project)...of course I can start this
outside the working qdvdauthor environment, but it'd be
nice to see qplayer intergrated as an editing tool as well...
This is really good though...1.9.0 that is. I'm currently
working on a structure with 4 submenus, 4 to 8 videos
in each, 'hidden' text-as-button objects (menu image is
also art presentation), and now I'm trying to add 'hidden'
content which you can access if you do something (or
nothing ;) specific...this is becoming big fun...
Tbh, I don't use the burner functions in qdvdauthor -
no real reason why, but I use k3b's create video dvd
shizzle to master the vobs to disk instead. Another
machine I'm building doesn't have any diskwriting
tools installed yet, so I might try satisfying qdvd's
deps for this and actually try the burn functions for
a change.....
.....Oh!...when, in the create dvd window,
you go down to the burn dvd block, and the checkbox
is unticked...the words beside that read something like
'Don't execute burn to dvd' or whatever -- this can be
counter-intuitive, because a lot of people think 'tick
the box to do the described action'....(I know, I know,
but when I show people this, that's how *their* head
is thinking ;) This happens in the other items as well.
If the wording were changed to 'do dvd burn' when
the box is ticked, and 'select to include this block' in
the unticked case, that clarifies all of this (for other
block items as well)...
<end subject>
Varol,
great work with 1.9.0 , I was so impressed, I tossed
a donation your way, but the SF page had an oops
on the way out...i received a pp receipt etc, but you
might want to check if you're a tiny bit closer to your
target....just incase automation has gone awry...
Regards,
Don
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