Hi,
I miss an option to specify the starting offset for generating the thumbnails. Chances are, if the preview is generated form the beginning of the movie, it will contain the title sequence showing the credits only. Is there a possibility to change this behaviour?
Tom

Hi

In the Menu Preview, when watching the preview, I get this error:

Error - Kfmclient
Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:///home/serge/DVDWizard/Preview.png does not exist.

I use the the 1.04b version.

In the previous version, I got the same error only when I wanted to use a video file in the Menu Background.

Another thing, how can I add fonts [other fonts] in the fonts list which is proposed?

Thank you

Serge

The preview thing is probably fixed in the latest version.

About adding fonts: The wizard will automatically list all fonts in the standard font directories on your system. As long as your fonts are not hidden in some weird place on your filesystem, the wizard will automatically find them.

When I try to make a DVD with this, the framegrabs of the individual clips that are used in the menu are not resized. It turns out really bad. I can send you a screen shot if you dont understand what I mean.

Yes, please contact me by e-mail.

hi,
what about packaging your DVD-Software in combination with also other DVD-software (like DVD backup express) together in one perfect, all inclusive DVD/Video Suite ?

offering the features:
DVD backup, decoding/encoding
DVD authoring, editing..
DV grabbing from DV cassette/disk

Would be nice to install and upgrade only 1 package. There could be 1 submenu in KMenu/Multimedia: KDE DVDSuite or something like that.

thanks.

Hi ;)

First of all, i'd say that i like so much your soft that i decided to use it only ;)

That's why i gonna start to test it much more than i already did.

I'm running debian etch.

1) The Menu Preview page: I can see the progress bar moving so i guess everything is going ok but at the end, it says :"Message Image PNG : unable to open « /data/tmp/Preview.png » : no such file or directory"

FR-PORT:/data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_30167# updatedb
FR-PORT:/data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_30167# locate Preview.png
--> no file found

2) On the first menu page, i have 6 buttons with 6 pics. The size of the 6 pics is not the same. The first buttons are smaller than the last buttons. I'd like to send you by mail the menu picture so that you can see. Moreover, i can't see nor the button to go to the next page nor the titles that should appear under the buttons.

However, the file BackgroundBlend.jpg seems ok. I must add that when i browse into the dvd menu, the red rectangles have a good size and are all well located even the button that allows me to switch to the second menu page.

3) At the end of the building, it offers me to test the dvd but i get a kdialog error that says "DVD playing application "Xine" is not installed on your computer. Xine is required for playing the DVD."

Nevertheless, Xine is installed on my comp. Moreover, it can find gxine when he shows me what the menu looks like.

FR-PORT:/usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard# dpkg -al| grep xine
ii gxine 0.4.8-0.1 the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome user inter
ii libxine1 1.0.1-1.6 the xine video/media player library, binary
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display library
ii totem-xine 1.0.5-1 A simple media player for the Gnome desktop

Ok, i'm sorry to be so long but i really think that "KDE DVD Authoring Wizard" will be the One ;)

regards,

Hi ;)

I try to generate a menu with 12 pieces of film but when i click on "Build Menu", some minutes later, I get a KDialog error:
"MPlex and/or SPUMux generated errors:
ERR: Button coordinates out of range: (437,498)-(720,543)"

I guess it works with less than 6 items.

regards,

f.

here is the Config and the DebugOutput

FR-PORT:/data/tmp# cat Config
# Kommander Generated configuration file

Command="CreateMenu"
BuildMenu="true"
StaticMenu="true"
Title="Lou Ann 2"
Subtitle=""
BackgroundType="Checkers"
BackgroundPicture=""
BackgroundMovie=""
TitleFont="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf"
SubtitleFont="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf"
LabelFont="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf"
FontColor="White"
FontOutlineColor="Black"
SceneDecoration="None"
TVSystem="PAL"
Widescreen="false"
IntroMovie=""
SoundtrackFile=""
NumScenes=12
OutputDir="/data/tmp"
WorkingDir="/data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868"

SceneFiles[0]="/data/film/film_temp/1dvd_out005.mpeg"
SceneFiles[1]="/data/film/film_temp/1K7_3001.mpeg"
SceneFiles[2]="/data/film/film_temp/1K7_5000.mpeg"
SceneFiles[3]="/data/film/film_temp/1K7_5006.mpeg"
SceneFiles[4]="/data/film/film_temp/2dvd_out005.mpeg"
SceneFiles[5]="/data/film/film_temp/2K7_3001.mpeg"
SceneFiles[6]="/data/film/film_temp/2K7_5000.mpeg"
SceneFiles[7]="/data/film/film_temp/2K7_5006.mpeg"
SceneFiles[8]="/data/film/film_temp/3dvd_out005.mpeg"
SceneFiles[9]="/data/film/film_temp/3K7_3001.mpeg"
SceneFiles[10]="/data/film/film_temp/3K7_5000.mpeg"
SceneFiles[11]="/data/film/film_temp/3K7_5006.mpeg"
SceneTitles[0]="1dvd_out005.mpeg"
SceneTitles[1]="1K7_3001.mpeg"
SceneTitles[2]="1K7_5000.mpeg"
SceneTitles[3]="1K7_5006.mpeg"
SceneTitles[4]="2dvd_out005.mpeg"
SceneTitles[5]="2K7_3001.mpeg"
SceneTitles[6]="2K7_5000.mpeg"
SceneTitles[7]="2K7_5006.mpeg"
SceneTitles[8]="3dvd_out005.mpeg"
SceneTitles[9]="3K7_3001.mpeg"
SceneTitles[10]="3K7_5000.mpeg"
SceneTitles[11]="3K7_5006.mpeg"
ScenePause[0]=0
ScenePause[1]=0
ScenePause[2]=0
ScenePause[3]=0
ScenePause[4]=0
ScenePause[5]=0
ScenePause[6]=0
ScenePause[7]=0
ScenePause[8]=0
ScenePause[9]=0
ScenePause[10]=0
ScenePause[11]=0


FR-PORT:/data/tmp# cat DebugOutput


KOMMANDER: RUNNING SCRIPT TO BUILD MENU


/data/film/film_temp/1dvd_out005.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/1K7_3001.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/1K7_5000.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/1K7_5006.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/2dvd_out005.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/2K7_3001.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/2K7_5000.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/2K7_5006.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/3dvd_out005.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/3K7_3001.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/3K7_5000.mpeg
/data/film/film_temp/3K7_5006.mpeg
Outputting 2 Pages.
Checking for "convert" ... found.
Checking for "composite" ... found.
Checking for "mogrify" ... found.
Checking for "identify" ... found.
Checking for "sox" ... found.
Checking for "mplex" ... found.
Checking for "dvdauthor" ... found.
Checking for "png2yuv" ... found.
Checking for "mplayer" ... found.
Checking for "tcprobe" ... found.
Checking for "mpeg2enc" ... found.
Checking for "mp2enc" ... found.
Checking for "bc" ... found.
Checking for "kdialog" ... found.
Checking for "konsole" ... found.

--------------------------------
Generating Thumbnail Frames
--------------------------------

Generating frames for Thumb 1,Available frames in clip 1: 400
2,Available frames in clip 2: 400
3,Available frames in clip 3: 400
4,Available frames in clip 4: 400
5,Available frames in clip 5: 400
6,Available frames in clip 6: 400
7,Available frames in clip 7: 400
8,Available frames in clip 8: 400
9,Available frames in clip 9: 400
10,Available frames in clip 10: 400
11,Available frames in clip 11: 400
12,Available frames in clip 12: 400

--------------------------------
Preprocessing Thumbnail Frames:
--------------------------------


--------------------------------
Initialising:
--------------------------------

convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
Generating Thumbnail Labels
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf'.
Generating Combination Layer..
Executing Composite Command:
convert \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Next.png -geometry +448+500 -compose over -composite \) Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb1Label.png -geometry +92+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb2Label.png -geometry +287+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb3Label.png -geometry +482+283 -compose over -composite \) Thumb4Label.png -geometry +92+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb5Label.png -geometry +287+450 -compose over -composite \) Thumb6Label.png -geometry +482+450 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png
Updating Background..
Cutting Background Images......
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.
Using frame 200 for menu.

Merging clip frames with background...
Doneln: `/data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/Frames/Frame230.png': fichier existant.
Generating MPEG stream...
/usr/bin/y4munsharp
/data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868 /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
sox: Length in output .wav header will be wrong since can't seek to fix it
INFO: [mp2enc] Opened WAV file, freq = 48000 Hz, channels = 1, bits = 16
INFO: [mp2enc] format = 0x1, audio length = 2147479552 bytes
INFO: [mp2enc] SpF=384, frac SpF=0.000, bitrate=128 kbps, sfreq=48.0 kHz
INFO: [mp2enc] System is little endian
sox:
INFO: [mp2enc] Num frames 766 Avg slots/frame = 384.000; b/smp = 2.67; br = 128.000 kbps
INFO: [mp2enc] Encoding to layer 2 with psychoacoustic model 2 is finished
INFO: [mp2enc] The MPEG encoded output file name is "soundtrack.mp2"
883200+0 enregistrements lus.
883200+0 enregistrements écrits.
1766400 bytes transferred in 2,816350 seconds (627195 bytes/sec)
/usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
Multiplexing..
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
INFO: [mplex] File /data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/MenuPage1.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] File /data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/soundtrack.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (/data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/MenuPage1.m2v)
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 720
INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 576
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 7400000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 0
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (/data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/soundtrack.mp2)
INFO: [mplex] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0
INFO: [mplex] Audio version : 1.0
INFO: [mplex] Layer : 2
INFO: [mplex] CRC checksums : no
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 16384 bytes/sec (128 kbit/sec)
INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [mplex] Mode : 3 single channel
INFO: [mplex] Mode extension : 0
INFO: [mplex] Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
INFO: [mplex] Original/Copy : 0 copy
INFO: [mplex] Emphasis : 0 none
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 7686696
INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [mplex] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [mplex] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 16619
INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 0 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf= 0 frame=000000 sector=00000000

MPlex / SPUMux STDERR output:

DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to

INFO: [email protected]
INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-15
INFO: Picture /data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/DVDMenuBase.png had 1 colors
INFO: Picture /data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/DVDMenuHighlight.png had 2 colors
INFO: Picture /data/tmp/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_4868/DVDMenuSelection.png had 2 colors
INFO: Autodetect 0 = 105x161-250x278
INFO: Autodetect 1 = 288x161-433x278
INFO: Autodetect 2 = 471x161-616x278
INFO: Autodetect 3 = 105x328-250x445
INFO: Autodetect 4 = 288x328-433x445
INFO: Autodetect 5 = 471x328-616x445
INFO: Autodetect 6 = 437x498-720x543
ERR: Button coordinates out of range: (437,498)-(720,543)

This error message is caused by a bug in Debian Etch. DVDAuthorWizard 1.05 has a work-around for the problem.

Hi guys!
I have a problem
Any idea what the problem is?
/data1/kino/cinta_3003.mpeg
Outputting 1 Pages.
Checking for "convert" ... found.
Checking for "composite" ... found.
Checking for "mogrify" ... found.
Checking for "identify" ... found.
Checking for "sox" ... found.
Checking for "mplex" ... found.
Checking for "dvdauthor" ... found.
Checking for "png2yuv" ... found.
Checking for "mplayer" ... found.
Checking for "tcprobe" ... found.
Checking for "mpeg2enc" ... found.
Checking for "mp2enc" ... found.
Checking for "bc" ... found.
Checking for "kdialog" ... found.
Checking for "konsole" ... found.

--------------------------------
Generating Thumbnail Frames
--------------------------------

Generating frames for Thumb 1,Available frames in clip 1: 399

--------------------------------
Preprocessing Thumbnail Frames:
--------------------------------


--------------------------------
Initialising:
--------------------------------

Generating Thumbnail Labels
Generating Combination Layer..
Executing Composite Command:
convert \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb1Label.png -geometry +109+367 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png
Updating Background..
Cutting Background Images.
Using frame 200 for menu.

Merging clip frames with background...
Doneln: creando el enlace simbólico «/home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/Frames/Frame230.png» a «/home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/Frames/Frame230.png»: El fichero existe
Generating MPEG stream...
/usr/local/bin/y4munsharp
~/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592 /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
883200+0 registros leídos
883200+0 registros escritos
1766400 bytes (1,8 MB) copied, 0,837391 seconds, 2,1 MB/s
**ERROR: [mp2enc] EOF in WAV header
**ERROR: [mp2enc] failure reading WAV file
/usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
Multiplexing..
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/soundtrack.mp2 for reading.

MPlex / SPUMux STDERR output:

DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to

INFO: Locale=es_ES.UTF-8
INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
STAT: 0:00:00.000
INFO: Picture /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/DVDMenuBase.png had 1 colors
INFO: Picture /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/DVDMenuHighlight.png had 2 colors
INFO: Picture /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/DVDMenuSelection.png had 2 colors
INFO: Autodetect 0 = 288x245-433x362
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
WARN: Read 0, expected 4
INFO: 0 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: -0.00

Statistics:
- Processed 0 subtitles.
- The longest display line had -1 characters.
- The maximum number of displayed lines was 0.
- The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes.


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END OF SCRIPT RUN
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The generation of the soundtrack for the menu failed somehow. What options did you choose for the soundtrack?

And could you please contact me by e-mail?

Thanks!

Hi guys!
I have a problem
Any idea what the problem is?
/data1/kino/cinta_3003.mpeg
Outputting 1 Pages.
Checking for "convert" ... found.
Checking for "composite" ... found.
Checking for "mogrify" ... found.
Checking for "identify" ... found.
Checking for "sox" ... found.
Checking for "mplex" ... found.
Checking for "dvdauthor" ... found.
Checking for "png2yuv" ... found.
Checking for "mplayer" ... found.
Checking for "tcprobe" ... found.
Checking for "mpeg2enc" ... found.
Checking for "mp2enc" ... found.
Checking for "bc" ... found.
Checking for "kdialog" ... found.
Checking for "konsole" ... found.

--------------------------------
Generating Thumbnail Frames
--------------------------------

Generating frames for Thumb 1,Available frames in clip 1: 399

--------------------------------
Preprocessing Thumbnail Frames:
--------------------------------


--------------------------------
Initialising:
--------------------------------

Generating Thumbnail Labels
Generating Combination Layer..
Executing Composite Command:
convert \( \( \( -size 768x576 xc:'#000000FF' Title.png -geometry +0+20 -compose over -composite \) Subtitle.png -geometry +0+105 -compose over -composite \) Thumb1Label.png -geometry +109+367 -compose over -composite \) -blur 1x0.4 TextLayer.png
Updating Background..
Cutting Background Images.
Using frame 200 for menu.

Merging clip frames with background...
Doneln: creando el enlace simbólico «/home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/Frames/Frame230.png» a «/home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/Frames/Frame230.png»: El fichero existe
Generating MPEG stream...
/usr/local/bin/y4munsharp
~/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592 /usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
883200+0 registros leídos
883200+0 registros escritos
1766400 bytes (1,8 MB) copied, 0,837391 seconds, 2,1 MB/s
**ERROR: [mp2enc] EOF in WAV header
**ERROR: [mp2enc] failure reading WAV file
/usr/bin/kommander/KDVDAuthoringWizard
Multiplexing..
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/soundtrack.mp2 for reading.

MPlex / SPUMux STDERR output:

DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to

INFO: Locale=es_ES.UTF-8
INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
STAT: 0:00:00.000
INFO: Picture /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/DVDMenuBase.png had 1 colors
INFO: Picture /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/DVDMenuHighlight.png had 2 colors
INFO: Picture /home/pepe/DVDAuthorWizard_Temporary_Files_17592/DVDMenuSelection.png had 2 colors
INFO: Autodetect 0 = 288x245-433x362
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
WARN: Read 0, expected 4
INFO: 0 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: -0.00

Statistics:
- Processed 0 subtitles.
- The longest display line had -1 characters.
- The maximum number of displayed lines was 0.
- The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
- The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes.


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END OF SCRIPT RUN
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meneerdik have you thought about using libmagick rather than relying on the particular switches of the ImageMagick applications themselves? Encouraging your users to harass the ImageMagick devs probably isn't helpful.

This is why so many popular programs are packaged as 'blah' and 'libblah'. 'blah' is for end users, and 'libblah' is a (hopefully stable) API for other applications like yours to use...

Thank you for your suggestion, but since my application is basically a BASH script, it cannot use libraries directly. It needs commandline interfaces into libMagick which, unfortunately, change quite often.

Maybe I should learn how to write PERL scripts some day. But then again, maybe the PERL interface is just as unreliable, don't know...

Sorry, I forgot to say - great work, this looks like a really nice app! Thanks.

Thanks to the author for the nice and simple to use application!

I was using KDVD Authoring on KDE 3.4 on a Fedora 4 system. Although all combo boxes did not show any option, it was working well. However, after upgrading to KDE 3.5 the application doesn't work anymore. The main window appears but nothing in it, only the Next, Back, and Cancel buttons.

Any idea what the problem is?

Thank you.

Please upgrade to the latest version of the KDE DVD Authoring Wizard.

Hi guys!
I've got a problem starting this program.
When I try to start it (by select it's icon from K menu or using Kommander) a window appears saying:

"Could not run DVDBuilder.sh."

So I try to run that script, and here's what happens:

$./DVDBuilder.sh
./DVDBuilder.sh: line 1843: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
./DVDBuilder.sh: line 1962: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Any suggestion? Thanx!

This has been confirmed to be caused by buggy BASH 3.1.

I just released an update that will refuse to run on this BASH version. Please upgrade and you will get a nice error dialog explaining what to do.. :)

... it's a feature! Well, not really. But if you replace in DVDBuilder.sh the old-style backquotes for command substitution with the $(command) form and the deprecated (this is mentioned in the bash manual!) $[expression] for arithmetic expansion with $((expression)) the errors mentioned above disappear. Having done this, I will kick out the bash 3.1 part in the kommander-Script and try if the program works. At last, some praise: the screenshots look very appealing, especially the feature for creating multiple menu pages is very interesting. Have fun, Martin

Hmm.. that is interesting, because backquotes are still working fine in BASH 3.1. The actual reason why the Kommander script is not working is a parsing bug in BASH 3.1. But it is possible that the bug is not triggered when the backquotes are replaced with $().

Personally, I was not planning to try to work around the bug, but if you manage to get the script working on both BASH 3.1 and older versions, I would be very happy to replace the script with your version.

Hi :)

I think this piece of code should fit for bash 3.1 and lower.


# Calculate total diskspace needed to create the DVD file structure

RequiredDiskSpace=0
for ((Scene=1; Scene -le NumScenes ; Scene++))
do
RequiredDiskSpace=$[ $RequiredDiskSpace + $(du -m "${SceneFiles[$Scene]}" | awk '{print $1}') ]
done

# Add space needed for menu's
if [ -f "$WorkingDir/MenuPage1.mpg" ]; then
for ((CurrentPage=1; CurrentPage -le $NumPages ; CurrentPage++))
do
RequiredDiskSpace=$[ $RequiredDiskSpace + $(du -m "$WorkingDir/MenuPage$CurrentPage.mpg" | awk '{print $1}') ]
done
fi

DiskSpaceWarning "$OutputDir" $RequiredDiskSpace



Ok, i hope you can insert this work around and create a new 1.04c that allows to run bash 3.1.

Note that i had to use -le instead of "lesser or equal" signs. It's not because of bash version but because of...www.kde-apps.org forum! It prevents me from writing such things! Please, remove -le and replace it with "lesser or equal" signs.

By the way, i like your soft very much. It's much more easy to use than QDVDAuthor ;)


regards,

f.

Hi :)

I think this piece of code should fit for bash 3.1 and lower.

# Calculate total diskspace needed to create the DVD file structure

RequiredDiskSpace=0
for ((Scene=1; Scene

Ok, I got one more report from someone running Bash 3.1. So, this starts to look like a bug in Bash 3.1.

I will try to *temporarily* upgrade my own machine to Bash 3.1 (because that version isn't marked stable yet) and see if I can reproduce the problem.

Hi ;)

I have the same problem.

I'm running debian etch and my bash version is 3.1-1

regards,

f.