Problem creating static showcase image menu

[Mark27q1]

Hi

First let me say that I love the tovid toolset, and really appreciate the effort that goes into maintaining it.

I'm trying to convert a kids' DVD bought in the UK to the NTSC TV standard so my kids can watch it on the TV instead of crowding round my laptop as I live in Japan. I've already converted the feature titles themselves and all that remains is to create a menu for the resulting disc, as I've never had much luck converting professionally produced menus. So I'm trying to construct a simple fixed text menu with a showcase IMAGE (not video) which I grabbed from one of the feature videos using mplayer, and the audio from the video credits, which is 30 seconds long, on loop.

I've used the gui to create the attached command line. This runs fine and produces a preview that shows exactly what I want. But, when I tell it to go ahead and make it, the final result does not display the showcase image in the menu when I view with either xsine or vlc. I have not tried to actually burn the disc and see how that comes out because I reckon that won't work either and I have enough beermats made out of messed up DVDs... :-)

The log does not, to my eye, show any good reason why this is happening, but can you spot anything in either my command line (generated by gui) or the log that would explain why the showcase image isn't making it into the final output?

Thanks!

Mark

[grepper]

Hi Mark, thanks for your words. I have tried your commands and also see
the bug with the showcase image not appearing. I also noticed I am
getting 'broken pipe' errors in doing -menu-fade with my core i5 machine
(4 cpu) - using "-jobs 2" makes the error go away. In any case,
possible workarounds while I investigate the bug are:
1. Use a background video instead of static image
2. (perhaps better if you really only want static)
Create a video out of the static image (easily done- command
follows) then use the video for the showcase instead of your png.
Create video:
ffmpeg -loop 1 -t 30 -i shot0001.png -r 29.970 -qscale 2 -y showcase.avi

As a side note, you are getting tons of output from libpng in the log:

wx=0.312700, wy=0.312700, rx=0.640000, ry=0.330000
gx=0.300000, gy=0.600000, bx=0.150000, by=0.060000
etc etc , that I don't get.

I'm not sure how critical this is or why your are getting it and I am
not, may have to do with libpng version or perhaps versions of other
programs like imagemagick. If the workaround fails you should see if it
if your distro has an updated version of these programs.
See http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20630

all the best,
Rob

[grepper]

On 09/07/12 06:25 PM, Mark27q1 wrote:

Replying to my last message here.

Okay, here is a patch to todisc for tovid svn r3442 that fixes this bug.
I haven't got around to committing it to svn head as there is a
somewhat major update allowing the use of avconv with tovid on its way.

Patch is attached, apply in the base tovid source directory with:
patch -0 < /path/to/todisc-r3442.patch
Then rerun ./setup install

all the best,
grepper

[Mark Fletcher]

Great thanks. Sorry for top-post, replying from an iPhone. Will try this patch as soon as I get time in front of a computer that isn't work. 

Thanks a lot for the quick follow-up. 

Mark 

[Mark Fletcher]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:30 PM, grepper <gre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Patch is attached, apply in the base tovid source directory with:
> patch -0 < /path/to/todisc-r3442.patch
> Then rerun ./setup install

Patch worked perfectly! Thanks a lot for the quick turnaround on the
fix! Appreciate it -- and my kids do too!

Mark