Getting started- a few issues

[kote...@gmail.com]

I rushed home from work to try this out and unfortunately I hit a few snags before I got to have any fun.

 

Windows 7 - 64 bit

CEMP 0.41.3

 

1. It asks me where java.exe is every time I start up.  Since I'm running 64 bit, it's in windows/syswow64/java.exe

2. I popped in Speed Racer and the edits were about 1 second late.  It warned me that I didn't have dvd_nav_packet_offset and/or dvd_start_offset, and that accuracy could suffer.

3. When I ran the advanced mode, it couldn't "Display info about current DVD"... which I tracked down to the mplayer.exe command not being found.  I didn't have mplayer installed prior to today.  I found mplayer.060.exe in vendor/cache and copied it back to CEMP's home directory and renamed it "mplayer.exe".  This worked- producing:

 

"disk_unique_id" => "bc9ac14e|cb4231c9",
"volume_name" => "SPEED_RACER",
"dvd_title_track" => "1",
"dvd_title_track_length" => 8096.566,
"dvd_start_offset" => 0.28,
"dvd_nav_packet_offset" => [2.766667, 0.647666],
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=8096.566
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=12.033
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=12.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_LENGTH=21.666
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_LENGTH=29.966
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_LENGTH=7.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_LENGTH=326.833
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_LENGTH=60.733
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_LENGTH=873.566
ID_DVD_TITLE_10_LENGTH=941.666
ID_DVD_TITLE_11_LENGTH=1.000
"timestamps_relative_to" => ["file", "29.97"],

 

4. It won't start and tells me that "ID_DVD_TITLE..." is invalid if I paste that into the EDL file.

 

5. This line:

"dvd_nav_packet_offset" => [2.766667, 0.647666],

 

 breaks smplayer.  In the cmd out window, all I see is:  

"button cancelled somehow..."

 

Commenting that line out of the EDL makes it work again- but with the "no nav_packet" error again.

 

 

[Roger Pack]

shoot I thought I had those path issues ironed out but must have not pushed them to the repo.  I'll probably cut a new release tomorrow.

Thanks for the feedback I probably need to put a real editor in there LOL.

Maybe with the new version you can start over and it will work better this time...sorry for the roughness of this!
-roger-

 

 

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[kote...@gmail.com]

 

No worries!  I do a little software writing myself, so I'm no stranger to this kind of stuff.

 

When you say 'real editor', what do you mean by that?  When I click 'edit' on any of the buttons, it opens the file in notepad (probably because that's my default), which is pretty terrible.  I would prefer notepad ++ or something.  Seems like a user setting could be handy here.

 

[Roger Pack]

Good idea.  I think what I really want to do eventually is a gui editor...like...that doesn't require any manual writing of files :)

for the pathing issues, could you try 0.41.5 and report back please?
Thanks!

-r

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:02 PM, <kote...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

No worries!  I do a little software writing myself, so I'm no stranger to this kind of stuff.

 

When you say 'real editor', what do you mean by that?  When I click 'edit' on any of the buttons, it opens the file in notepad (probably because that's my default), which is pretty terrible.  I would prefer notepad ++ or something.  Seems like a user setting could be handy here.

 

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[kote...@gmail.com]

Sorry,

I made the mistake of going to see Superman instead of working more on this.  I'll try this tonight and let you know.

 

 

[kote...@gmail.com]

Should the new build fix my errors with the nav_packet stuff, or just the location of java and mplayer?

 

[Roger Pack]

the locations should be fixed, also if you click "create a new edl for currently inserted dvd" it should create a file that works right, instead of having to use the "display information about..." button (though you used it well, its output is a bit misleading, you're basically only supposed to have to use the lines that start with quotes...I hope to clear this all up sometimes with a 'real' GUI editor, i hope....)

In terms of timings being off by about a second, mplayer underneath uses the "DVD" time converted  to 'file" time underneath for its timestamps...hopefully there's a way to map from one to another...I hope so anyway :)

-roger

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:08 AM, <kote...@gmail.com> wrote:

Should the new build fix my errors with the nav_packet stuff, or just the location of java and mplayer?

 

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[kote...@gmail.com]

Java location is fixed.  I think mplayer is worse.  Instead of saying "mplayer is not a system command"  it tells me "C:\users\xhonzi\Sensible" is not a command.

 

 

[Roger Pack]

Ok try with 0.41.7 plz?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:10 PM, <kote...@gmail.com> wrote:

Java location is fixed.  I think mplayer is worse.  Instead of saying "mplayer is not a system command"  it tells me "C:\users\xhonzi\Sensible" is not a command.

 

 

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[kote...@gmail.com]

Will do.

 

Hopefully tonight.

[kote...@gmail.com]

Still not having much success.

 

So the mplayer and java errors seem to be solved. 

 

This was in the edl I created for Speed Racer with the 41.7 software.  It looks erroriffic to me:

getch2: 6 can't get number of input events  [disabling console input]

Playing Cinema.

getch2: 6 can't get number of input events  [disabling console input]

Playing v0.41.7/lib/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/simple_gui_creator/../../vendor/dvdid.exe.

getch2: 6 can't get number of input events  [disabling console input]

Playing D:.

Exiting... (End of file)",

 

 

It doesn't run.

 

On Friday, June 21, 2013 10:07:29 AM UTC-6, kote...@gmail.com wrote:

Will do.

 

Hopefully tonight.

[kote...@gmail.com]

Also,

The debug output window seems to be gone, as well.  Which is great for a finished product, but it was helping me troubleshoot my own issues and give you better data on what was going wrong.

 

 

[Roger Pack]

good idea maybe I should bring back an optional console window :)

where was your output coming from? I assume it plays in smplayer, could you paste me its logs as well? options -> view logs?
thanks.

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:42 AM, <kote...@gmail.com> wrote:

Also,

The debug output window seems to be gone, as well.  Which is great for a finished product, but it was helping me troubleshoot my own issues and give you better data on what was going wrong.

 

 

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[kote...@gmail.com]

smplayer is not even starting with the current .edl's I'm generating.  So no log there, unless there's a text log somewhere.  I used to get an output window from CEMP, but as I said, that's gone in the current versions.

 

[Roger Pack]

Ok 0.41.8 has a debug console (and...possibly some bugs fixed :)

Give 'er a shot, and sorry about that.
also as a note you may need to adjust timestamps with a ratio of 30/29.97 to convert them, since I try to use "file times" which don't match DVD NAV timestamps, if that helps any.
Cheers and thank you.
-roger-

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:06 PM, <kote...@gmail.com> wrote:

smplayer is not even starting with the current .edl's I'm generating.  So no log there, unless there's a text log somewhere.  I used to get an output window from CEMP, but as I said, that's gone in the current versions.

 

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