Menu Background image blurry

[Light Wizzard]

I use a custom png file 720x576 (used DeVeDe background image as
template, pasted in my image and saved it in Gimp), I started out with
a 1920x1080 (worked fine last burn), thought that was it; 720 didn't
help; the first image in VTS_01_0.VOB is blurry; to the point you can
not see it clearly, pixelated look; the next images are not; but the
Bluray/DVD players (3), I have only shows the blurry image at the
Menu, as if it wasn't advancing the image frames and only playing the
first image; which is encoded into the iso on the hard drive, so I
ruled out the DVD burner; also I have a wav file, which plays fine on
one player, but is broken on another; other then that it works fine; I
just did a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 12.04 x64 running in KDE,
with DeVeDe 3.21.0; I did not have this problem in Ubuntu Studio
11.10, but I have not burned a DVD in 6 months; but at that time I
used the same layout, mkv is source video, which the movie plays fine,
the menu has a background image and a wav file.

[Light Wizzard]

I forgot to mention that I compile ffmpeg from source on 12.04, where
the 11.04 version I used the repo;
I did this to try to solve another issue; so I will reinstall it on
another install and use the repo, and retest this again, or uninstall
ffmpeg and install it from the repos,
After un-checking ffmpeg instead of mencoder, it worked fine, so its
ffmpeg that is causing this issue, and since it seems this is being
phased out in favor of other encoders, or so it seems, I'll just stick
with un-checking it.

[Guy Hillyer]

I am seeing the same problem  on Ubuntu 12.04.  In addition to the menu being very pixellated, the menu takes almust a full minute to come up on my two dvd players.  Did you ever find a solution to this problem?

[thelightwizzard Gmail]

Uncheck "Use FFMPEG instead of Mencoder" in the Preferences, it was FFMPEG that was doing it.

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[Guy Hillyer]

Thanks for the reply.  Your suggestion does indeed address the bad menu problem.  Using mencoder, however, results in audio being out of sync, and attempts to adjust that using the Advanced Properties audio delay setting cause the mplayer to crash when previewing.  Hmm, if I could use mencoder for the menu, and ffmpeg for everything else, it would work...  meh.

[thelightwizzard Gmail]

I also had this issue, and converted the video to Matroska and it solved this issue; actually, most of the time I create my videos using Blender, and found MKV works best, so I don't actually convert them, but I did test this on two videos that I converted using Hand Brake and avconv (didn't test it with ffmpeg, but I am sure it would work also), from AVI to MKV, and another one from MP4 to MKV and they worked fine.

I do remember talk about an option to use avconv instead of FFMPEG, its in a configuration file from what I remember, looking at other threads, I found the conversation between ToK and Sergio Costas; an exert is below:

In /usr/lib/devede/devede_ffmpeg_convert.py near line 231 I can switch
from ffmpeg to avconv by removing the # in front of the line:
changing
#command_var=["ffmpeg"]
command_var=["avconv"]

Now the rest of the conversation talked (below) about the File Format being an issue; but I found that MKV format fixed this issue for me.

Yes, but the problem is the file itself: if has an AC3 audio stream in
stereo (which is fine), but a MP2 5.1 audio stream (which is wrong: mp2,
AFAIK, can have only two channels).

To show you this works; here is a link to my ISO and Video that I did using Ubuntu 12.04 and Devede (out of the box, no changes to them other then unchecked ffmpeg): http://lightwizzard.com , you will find links to them in the body; and when I tried to use AVI or MP4, it did what you said, Audio Sync was not right and other issues; so it was an issue with the file format itself, and ffmpeg was an issue; avconv actually worked better, but I did not try to change to it, as stated above; I'm still running the stock version with only the one change I mentioned, which was to un-check ffmpeg.

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[Sergio Costas]

Update to the last version of Devede, and there, at the options, use
Mencoder for menus, and ffmpeg for videos (last version allows that).

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