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| tin2tin posted 2004 Nov 18 05:19 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI
Bug report and development thread. 
Author and produce ready to burn DVD slideshows! Current version: Homepage If you want to report a bug please write the following in your bug report: - Version of DVD slideshow GUI and OS(XP, Vista...) - A repetable workflow which will cause the error to occur. (If I can't repeat it I can't fix it). - On rendering bugs please add your RAM, HDD space. Report bugs here... Support on how to use the program elsewhere... Like in the DVD authoring thread. | ||||||||||||||
| Baldrick posted 2004 Nov 18 05:41 | ||||||||||||||
| the image doens't work and the download doesn't work either,
The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. you can upload files and images in our forum. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Nov 18 11:25 | ||||||||||||||
| It is all there at videohelp.com as freeware. Avisynth is used for most of the free software to process video, Get that first.
For encoding you can use HCenc or Quenc. Both are using avisynth scripts as import. It's very simple to write a script for import of an avi:
Paste this into notepad and save as .avs. Use HCenc for the best video quality(m2v) and Quenc for audio(ac3)(or you can use Quenc for both - but HCenc is better for video). The get GUI for dvdauthor/Muxman for authoring. It is very advanced, and can do amazing stuff. But it's not that difficult. Just find your folder with the rendered files and drag n' drop them into the menu. Create DVD/Preview/Burn. Media Player Classic works fine as external previewer. Imgburn can be set up with GUI for DVDauthor, which can burn your dvd's for you and is also freeware. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Nov 25 08:23 | ||||||||||||||
| As of the 25. of november an update is ready.
Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Nov 30 09:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Another update...
Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 07 12:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Updated - now it's ready for some rough testing! :D
Btw. you can export a m2v and a ac3 file and use Muxman to produce a ready to burn DVD file. :D Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 09 04:52 | ||||||||||||||
| Updated to version 00g
9. dec - PAL 4:3, NTSC 4:3, PAL 16:9, NTSC 16:9 added! :D Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 10 07:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Updated.
10. dec - Exports chapters(one for each chapter) in smpte(aka. 00:00:01.00) or frames(useful in muxman). I'm amazed how easy things get with muxman: :P 1. Make your slideshow in DVDsGUI. 2. Export: m2v+ac3+txt(chapters in frames) 3. Import m2v+ac3+txt(chapters in frames) in muxman and export. 4. Burn it and you'll have a slideshow dvd with chapterpoints for each new slide. If you want to add more slideshows to a dvd you can use GUI for DVDauthor or DVDauthor GUI to set up your menus (these two use chapters in smpte and both imports the txt file saved in DVDsGUI). Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 13 18:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes, you guessed right... another update!
Now it is possible to export directly to iso or dvd folders with chapters - all ready to burn. Though it's a bit of a hassel to download DVDslideshowGUI, QuEnc, Media Player Classic and Avisynth - it can't get much easier to burn your own dvd-slideshows when you're up and running - and that is for free!!! Have mucho fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 15 08:54 | ||||||||||||||
| 15. dec - Added grayscale transitions - every image in the transitionfolder will be converted into super cool transitions- when restarting. So now you can make your own transitions - the possibilities are unlimited! And now you can add random transitions too.
Though there might be some minor bugs here and there - it's pretty solid, advanced and ready for use. :D :D :D Tin2tin Lowres photos+low bitrate rendering of a few grayscale transitions preview: dvdsguilowbirate.m2v | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 15 15:21 | ||||||||||||||
| 15. dec - Night. Added an installer so now everything can be downloaded in one go(4 parts) and installed so you don't have to worry about what goes where.
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| burnman99 posted 2004 Dec 16 00:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Do i just need to unrar them all to the same folder? Are each parts the same?
Thanks Rog | ||||||||||||||
| msteyaert posted 2004 Dec 16 01:40 | ||||||||||||||
| after install I can't start the app up.It tells me to move the installation path to a dir with no "-" in the pathname etc...although I used the default installation path | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 16 02:43 | ||||||||||||||
The rars are 4 different parts, but with the same size. Download them all to the same place on your harddisk and unrar them (you can get a trial of winrar here.)
Unfortunately I'm having troubles with running comandlinetools from folders with empty spaces and '-' so therefore I have to let DVDsGUI make this check and error. The default dirs name depends on the language win is running - so if it is English the "Program Folder" does contain an empty space character, and you'll have to install it into another folder without the empty space character. Sorry. Thanks for testing it. I'm looking forward to hear from you - how things goes. :D Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 20 18:47 | ||||||||||||||
Hi EB, Thanks for your PM, I hope it's okay that I reply here. (o) What's your resolution? 1. Added. 2. Thanks for finding this bug - it should be all right now. 3. Added sorting - look under the edit menu. 4. Dunno - sounds like you got the material to stress test it :) 5. This one I can't figure out - I don't have this problem on my computer!? (Btw. it always exports all slides - not just the selected) 6. The GUI is just using QuEnc - you can finde more info on QuEnc here. Btw. if you want to make mpg/iso you can add a wav with no sound. Thanks for testing it, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 27 07:10 | ||||||||||||||
| You can get the DVD slideshow GUI help file here.
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| liquid217 posted 2004 Dec 27 07:37 | ||||||||||||||
Put quotes around the paths.. like so. mplex -f 8 -o "c:\out folder\out file.mpg" "c:\in folder\in file.m2v" "c:\in folder\in file.ac3" | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2004 Dec 31 09:22 | ||||||||||||||
| Added helpfile to the gui...
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jan 02 10:07 | ||||||||||||||
| View a flash tutorial af DVD slideshow GUI made with Wink here:
flash tutorial Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jan 06 07:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Found a couple of bugs, and uploaded another version the same day(6. jan) v 0.55 -> v 0.56. I'm sorry - if any of you dl'ed the v 0.55. Please report any bugs here... :)
Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jan 13 15:59 | ||||||||||||||
The Pan, zoom and rotate tool is comming along nicely:
It is fully functional by now - but I still need to implement it to the DVD slide show GUI. It will be quite difficult for me - and it might take some time... :o . I've found a nice way to get good quality when zooming into images - and a way to preview - whithout rendering - though this stuff tend to get quite heavy for the computer. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2005 Jan 14 10:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Great work! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Feb 17 04:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Just a hint: If QuEnc doesn't succed with rendering/exporting then check if the bitrate value is smaller than the max bitrate(under advanced options). If the bitrate value is higher than the max bitrate QuEnc won't render your file!
(I will get DsG to check this in the next version) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| pokeytolman posted 2005 Mar 06 10:15 | ||||||||||||||
| I like it! two things that I didnt see and would like to(if they are there and I could not find them please let me Know).
1. the ability to automatically set the length of the slideshow to that of the wav. 2.the ability to use more than one wav. regardless great job! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 06 13:11 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks :D
The two functions you're asking for - aren't included in DsG - but when you preview your slideshow - Media Player Classic will show the precise length. When you got that length you can use ex. Goldwave to create a wav(48 khz) - with one or more pieces of music - in the same length as you need for your DsG slideshow. That way you can make one long wav to fit your slideshow. You can even use goldwave to record a speak - simultaneous with playing a rendered videoslideshow file - so the slideshow and newly recorded wav will be in sync(when importing it into DsG afterwards). Good luck, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 10 17:52 | ||||||||||||||
| Got the animation tool to work inside DVDsGUI - and uploaded a new version - check it out!!
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| TheUnknownComic posted 2005 Mar 11 22:40 | ||||||||||||||
| Is this available in something besides RAR format? I'd love to try it out. | ||||||||||||||
| Baldrick posted 2005 Mar 12 03:45 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin: make a zip package! and I can fix an account so you can upload files on the videohelp server.
http://www.geocities.com/naked3d/DVDsGUIvtr.htm does not work in FireFox. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 12 06:02 | ||||||||||||||
| Sounds great - I pm'ed you :D
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 12 06:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Uploaded a new version... with all in one exe.
Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 13 15:33 | ||||||||||||||
| Yet another new version with bugfixes mainly.
Including some evil black-frame(16:9) misrenderings. And now the animation menu respects the aspect ratio. Have fun, tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Baldrick posted 2005 Mar 17 08:02 | ||||||||||||||
| http://www.videohelp.com/~tin2tin/DVDsGUI060B7setup.exe does not work....have you uploaded it? | ||||||||||||||
| Baldrick posted 2005 Mar 18 04:59 | ||||||||||||||
| fix the latest version download link!
should it be http://www.videohelp.com/~tin2tin/DVDsGUI060setup.exe ? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 18 13:26 | ||||||||||||||
| It's should up now - sorry.
Please let me know if you run into any bugs. :) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 20 14:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Found some bugs on avi loading, added a preview avi feature, and uploaded the new version.
Tin2tin[/url] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Mar 28 13:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Updated to 0.60 beta 9
- Check space left on harddisk when export/preview. - M2v noaudio preset for Quenc - Load wav bugfix. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jun 28 03:07 | ||||||||||||||
| My time is very limited - but I uploaded a new beta9 with the latest QuEnc - it seems less buggy - though it might have broken the 4:3 vs. 1:1 ratio setting. I have to look into that sometime...
I've used the same name for uploading: 0.60 Beta9. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jul 17 10:10 | ||||||||||||||
| I wonder is this proggy only working on my computer!? :shock:
I could use some feedback from you people. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Nelson37 posted 2005 Jul 17 15:11 | ||||||||||||||
| OK, here you go. Just spent a few minutes with the prog, further evaluation pending.
Like the auto-resize for correct aspect ratio. Love the animation tool, with ability to save presets. Haven't seen anything like this on any other slideshow tool. Setting the keys seems a little glitchy, mostly in preview. Preview is however very important when creating new presets. May be CPU related, see below. Final output gave the desired result, but I wasn't sure from the preview. Need the ability to make the thumbnails larger for easier re-arrangement. Need a smoother way to change slide position in the show. Current method not sufficient for large number of slides. Preview mode not working correctly for me. Could be my CPU, Athlon 1700. Several slides were skipped, animation did not display correctly, dissolves did not display correctly. Final output was correct. Safe area dotted lines should be switchable. Handy for preview, but definitely unwanted for final output. It appears I need to make a blank JPG and use this for backround? Blanking the box uses last entered JPG. Now I have to look for the dotted-line backround to put it back, as it is useful for the animation. Not a big deal, but a checkbox in addition to a backround picture would be useful. Haven't tried sound yet, also need to play with the arrangement tools. If the move up\move down arrows are all there is, this is almost a no-go item. Would also like the ability to output to AVI, though this is easily accomplished by loading script into VDUB, though I assume prog deletes it when finished? Need option to save. Also would like option to use already installed version of AviSynth. While this raises the possibility of your script not working with my AviSynth, forcing the install raises the possibility of MY Avisynth scripts no longer working, which, to me at least, is a bigger problem. Nice work, worthy of further investigation. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jul 17 17:17 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks Nelson37 for spending your time on this!
When using the preview the temp files will first be deleted after closing media player classic. So without closing the m-p-c you can run the temp avs in vdub. (I know it's a bit clumsy, but it works) I think it will work with any avisynth version higher than 2.5 - and during install you can just cancel installing the avisynth included in the dvdslideshowgui pagage. It should work as long you have some avisynth version higher than 2.5 installed. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Nelson37 posted 2005 Jul 17 21:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Text position for NTSC 720x480 is outside the TV display area.
Trying to use a created animation preset results in a "no keys for current image", or something similar. I know you just got this working but this means you cannot re-use an animation. But before that, you have GOT to fix the re-arrangement feature. Need drag-and-drop, preferably with a grid display of picture only and the ability to increase picture size. A couple of pre-determined sizes would be sufficient. Imagine 99 slides in a list. Number 98 needs to be moved to number 2, number 87 needs to move to number 5, Number 10 to number 72, etc. Get the picture? Moving by arrow key just will not cut it. Don't get me wrong, many of the big boys make the same mistake, while getting the aspect ratio wrong, fewer transitions, and no animation. Nice work here, fix a couple of things and you'll have the best slideshow program on the market. And I've tried most, have about 1200 slides to put into a show. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jul 18 00:11 | ||||||||||||||
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Nelson37 posted 2005 Jul 18 09:03 | ||||||||||||||
| Text OK, animations OK.
Somewhat related to the Preview issue, setting precise position for text or picture box in animations is difficult with mouse only. I get a lot of lag between movement and display. Slid the picture clear off the screen once and couldn't grab it any more. How about an X and Y position indicator for both animation keys and text? Could transitions be inserted into the animation? Could you butter my toast for me? How about selectable color and/or transparency for text? On both the load preset for animation and the import files - this should be a one-click process. When I select files, I want them in the show. Shouldn't have to select them twice. Same with the animation preset. Should activate when selected, instead of Select and then Load. Backround file and dotted lines should be checkbox selectable. Clear box for no backround, check second box for Show Dotted lines Instead of backround image. Check this for initial preview, off for final preview and export. In code, would just use lines.jpg instead of backround.jpg. Encoder should start automatically with default settings, or have checkbox option for this. Export should Export, not get halfway there and stop. How to lock to NTSC setting? Keeps defaulting to PAL. What the hell does "exposition" do? These are all relatively minor quibbles. The arrangement thing is a killer. How about a position variable on each slide, ie click on slide 99, change position number to 5, enter. Needing 94 mouse clicks to do this simply will not work. Also need ability to make thumbnails larger. How about a simulated drag-and-drop? You have mouseclick selectability. Seperate each slide with an empty slot. Click on slide 99, then click on empty slot between 1 and 2. Dialog pops up, "move this slide to position#2? - OK." Positions redraw, empty slots re-created. Dialog box perhaps not needed. Obviously, empty slots removed on preview and display. Maybe a "move"menu option which would bump it in front of next selected slide, this would eliminate the empties. The ability to arrange the slides in proper order by sight is absolutely crucial. Renaming is a work-around for small numbers of files, but not for large numbers. Particularly as proper order not always obvious and may be changed several times. You've passed several of my tests : Do I keep it? yes Can I use it? yes Would I recommend it to fellow geeks? yes The arrangement problem knocks it down a bit: Is it now primary app for this task? no Would I pay for it? yes, but not much (miss lunch at Wendy's) Would I recommend it to my customers? yes, with reservations With better arrangement, those would be: yes, and other slideshow apps deleted from hard drive yes, and low double digits, too (dinner at Red Lobster) absolutely as the best one I know of I think you are close to something commercially viable. Don't know if that's your goal. But I certainly appreciate your efforts. | ||||||||||||||
| Nelson37 posted 2005 Jul 22 09:59 | ||||||||||||||
| There appears to be a maximum import limit of less than 340 and greater than 230.
There appears to be a maximum encode size of less than 230 and greater than 180. Resize keeps aspect ratio, but need an option to resize to full-screen view. Still checking, some minor glitches but only one killer. The re-arrangement method is simply not usuable for much over 20 slides. BUT, the creatable transitions and animations make it worth further study. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2005 Jul 23 01:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for testing it!
This is just a quick reply, I'll look deeper into your thoughts later. But concerning the re-arrangment of the images. Why don't you use copy/paste/cut to reorder the images? Cutting and pasting is pretty much the same as the menu-drag-and-drop idea. When pasting the images in the buffer(cut/copy) will be added above the first selected image(highlighted). And using the '-' or '+' keys on the keyboard will move the images fast without using the mouse. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Nelson37 posted 2005 Jul 26 13:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Cut and paste seems to work OK.
Am getting seemingly random issues with files being skipped. It is in the AVS script, I preview with VDUB before encode. Reboot seems to temporarily solve issue. Slides skipped will vary when the problem arises. Increase thumbnail size needed, I suppose a 2-d grid would not be possible, eh? | ||||||||||||||
| ballywho posted 2006 Jan 23 21:47 | ||||||||||||||
I discovered DVD Slideshow GUI 2 weeks ago and have been putting Version 8Beta through testing. There is a Version 9 mentioned on the forum, has this been released? Are you still developing the program? I would be keen to provide feedback for what it may be worth. Regards, Ballywho | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak posted 2006 Jan 24 12:45 | ||||||||||||||
| I just downloaded this too (also about 2 weeks ago). I've been able to use it with some success but have had the following problems:
1) occasionally slides will show up in the resulting video as complete garbage. If I start the process over again, it will either be fine, or different slides will be messed up. Usually I can get around this by just doing 1 pass encoding - not sure why that works. 2) I can't get sound to work at all. As the doumentation suggests, I feed it a 44.1kHz wav file and while nothing chokes, there is absolutely no sound in the resulting mpg output. Issue #1 is a minor annoyance for me. Issue #2 is a major hassle - if someone can point me in the right direction for how to debug this, I would be grateful. (Actually I could probably get around issue #2 if I could figure out how to mux the audio file with another process - however both of the DVDAuthor GUI's use mplex and that doesn't seem to be happy with the ac3 converted from the .wav used - there has to be another way) | ||||||||||||||
| liquid217 posted 2006 Jan 24 13:08 | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak, 44.1khz is not dvd standard. mplex needs 48khz | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak posted 2006 Jan 24 15:05 | ||||||||||||||
Right, but DVD SlideshowGui is supposed to do the conversion according to the documentation. If I do the conversion outside of DSG, it still doesn't work. Everything I send to mplex (through the DVDAuthor GUI's) is 48kHz. Rather than pollute this thread, I'll open up a new question relating to the mplex issue. - Rob | ||||||||||||||
| ballywho posted 2006 Jan 24 21:06 | ||||||||||||||
| I had many issues with wav files and even getting the encoding part of the process working properly. I now have a series of settings I use for cretaing successful output. I am not sure if there is one of the settings I use that is un-neccessary but I can't be bothered trying without them.
One setting I stick by is that I save my wav files at 48kHz. ducpak - Specifically on your problem of no sound. While learning how to use DVD Slideshow GUI I had crashed out so many times and created some really bad mpegs. Then I found that no sound was being added to my slideshows. I could not even create a 2 slide show with sound track. In the end I resorted to uninstalling the program and re-installing. This resolved the issue and I have not looked back. Cheers ballywho | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak posted 2006 Jan 26 07:47 | ||||||||||||||
| @ballywho - Thanks! I had to uninstall and reboot (just a plain uninstall didn't work) and now I have sound. | ||||||||||||||
| ballywho posted 2006 Jan 27 04:52 | ||||||||||||||
Glad I could be of help. Another consideration as you progress : For some reason I could create mpegs that would play nicely with the packaged Media Player Classic V6.4.8.2, but when I tried playing them using Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3802 the picture would stop after about 4 slides. I ignored this and burnt a DVD anyway. The same result was then evident in my expensive Pioneer DVD player, after the same 4 slides the show stopped and returned to the menu screen. In a younger cheap Chinese (no offense to anyone) player the DVD worked fine. Very frustrating. I messed around with the configuration settings for QuEnc and almost completely resolved this issue. I tick the Auto Max Bitrate under Advance settings and un-tick Use VBR. I say almost because one sequence on my latest DVD exhibits the problem (I may have forgotten to adjust the settings) The explaination for these changes to the defaults allude me - but it works. Have fun Ballywho | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak posted 2006 Jan 27 12:12 | ||||||||||||||
| I also played around with "Use VBR" and have sometimes unchecked that option. However my latest trick is to use just single pass encoding (uncheck the option for 2 pass encoding) This seems to give me consistently functional results.
Given that the "scenes" aren't really changing 1 pass should be good enough. The transition points are the only real change and depending on the transition type, you can't really tell how the encoding affects the quality. Of course I could be completely wrong about all of this. | ||||||||||||||
| resonence posted 2006 Feb 11 23:57 | ||||||||||||||
| I tried this program and Irfan View since they seem to be small, intuitive programs and they are free but I get the same problem with both that I haven't gotten on some other slideshow software such as from Ulead. I get an error message saying that it can't find the decompressor for the file type MJPG. I tried loading up another AVI file (divx) and I got the same error message except for file type divx 4.
I only downloaded the DVD slideshow GUI and no other programs. Am I missing some program that the GUI needs to work with AVI files? Please help me overcome this problem. For me, if I can't work with AVI files in the program, it's a little useless. Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| hubbabub posted 2006 Feb 24 04:28 | ||||||||||||||
| I tested Beta 9
http://www.videohelp.com/~tin2tin/DVDsGUI060B9setup.exe It uses QuEnc 0.59 I made a small sample slideshow (4 images) Exported it as a DVD Folder The VOB file that was created was on 5Mb I then changed the QuEnc 0.59 to QuEnc 0.61 and did the same thing all over, and now the VOB file was 3Mb large. /Hubbabub | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 03 07:27 | ||||||||||||||
| Been away for a long time - sorry about that. Most of the things you guys have been running into - I don't know how to solve.
The beta9 was pulled was because QuEnc 0.61 didn't work with dsg on my computer and still doesn't... if DSG beta9 is used(fewer bugs than beta8) - I would recommend using QuEnc 0.59. (EDIT: Just found out that it's the avisynth included in beta9 which coursed the problems - beta9 can be used - but only with the avisynth included in beta8 2.5 :) ) I've found out that HC works fine - when exporting .m2v files - just change the encoder under Presets - and add '*wait 0' in the HC.ini file. The sound issues. Sound on imported avis works - but not if the sound/music is added under Presets - nor does the ac3 export work. I'll have to look into that some day. (EDIT: As long as you install the avisynth version included - the music will be fine. :) ) The slowing down during opening a folder with many images is due to creating all the tumbnails - I might switch that feature off or make it selectable. @resonence - it sound like you have to google and download/install decompressers for the missing codec's. QuEnc - just make sure that the mux profile is set to dvd and leave the rest alone. Changing the ratio ect. in Quenc course errors. Let DSG handle the settings for you. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 06 07:06 | ||||||||||||||
| The next version will fix some bugs.
Add optional tumbnails for faster directory opening. Add import of mp3. Add more than 50 new transitions. Let you code your own transitions. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak posted 2006 Mar 07 07:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Tin2Tin,
Since you're actively working on this I thought I'd post a few requests - feel free to ignore... When I generated an mpg file (sound included) and then authored with "Gui for DVDAuthor", the following warning came up:
Nothing bad happens, but the warning was a little concerning - can anything be done about it - or is it completely harmless and can be ignored? My actual requests are as follows: 1) Can this be run from the usual "C:\Program Files\..." directory, the space seems to cause problems - can the old "C:\PROGRA~1" work-around be used inside the code? 2) Can the self-insall executable be set up to give the user a little more flexibility - such as not automatically create icons/entries in the start menu? #2 is a VERY low priority in my opinion, but #1 is a little higher priority. Thanks for reading, Rob | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 07 09:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Dupcak,
Thanks for testing it. The first thing you mention is something I don't know anything about. I've tried to add a dsg mpg to gfd and there were no warnings. You can always test it on a RW disc or throw the resulting dvdfolders from gfd at mpc to see if there are working. BTW do you know that youre able to export chapters from dsg to import in gfd - so you can make chapters fro eact new image? 1)+2) I've had a crash and lost my instalation files for dsg - so I'll have to rewrite it now. I think atm. it is possible to install dsg anywhere you like without troubles. Maybe you could test it for me? Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak posted 2006 Mar 07 10:10 | ||||||||||||||
Actually it does play just fine on all players (software/hardware) that I've tried - I was just concerned by the warning - maybe it is fine to ignore.
I've never tried to create chapters inside of dsg...
Ouch! Sorry about the crash. It turns out that my previous statements were misleading... I was able to install anywhere I wanted to - but when I tried to run from a directory with a space in the directory name, the program told me I couldn't. I'll be happy to test anything out. - Rob | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 07 11:30 | ||||||||||||||
Great - good to know :D
Directory with space works ok in the next version - but not '-', so it'll have to check for that. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 09 14:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Phew - after a year - finally a new version out. Give it a spin.
Btw. if you come up with some good preset for the animation tool, make some great grayscale transitions or code some nice transitions in avisynth - let me know so I can include them in the next pagage. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 10 04:31 | ||||||||||||||
| Ahem, there is an installer bug - the icon/icon in the start menu doesn't link to the right file and dsg will not start second time.
However if you run dsg from the installed folder - there should not be any problems. Will upload the fixed version tonight. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 10 15:29 | ||||||||||||||
| The install bug should be fixed now. Please report back here if you have any troubles with the installer.
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 11 09:18 | ||||||||||||||
| In the bottom of the first post here - is there a very nice rendered slideshow:
Terranuts Forum Rapidshare: Hubbabub's slideshow Some nice DVD backgrounds: DVD-Backgrounds Wallpapers can be quite usefull as backgrounds as well(DVDsGUI will scale it to fill the background): Google wallpapers | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 11 13:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Uploaded a version 0.62 which has avi export - get it at the usual place.
:) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| hubbabub posted 2006 Mar 11 16:56 | ||||||||||||||
Thank you, glad you liked it :) /Hubbabub | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 12 10:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Now I've added more than 100 transitions - so now there is 140 transitions in the install.
If you already installed DVDsGUI then you can download the new transitions here and add the new .avs files to the transition folder. At the next startup of DVDsGUI the new transitions will be accessible. Have fun, tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| dupcak posted 2006 Mar 12 11:59 | ||||||||||||||
| All the installation stuff now works great (can run the program from any directory, etc).
However I'm still seeing a bunch of random stuff when I export to either mpg or avi (haven't tried anything else) This could be anything from the background jpg or almost random noise. (This is all with 16:9 NTSC selected) I think I was able to solve this with doing a CBR encode inside of Quenc. I have yet to try HC for the encoder. The music gets included without a problem which was a problem I had a while ago, but is no longer an issue. Another thing I noticed is that the background image is not getting squeezed to the correct dimensions for 16:9 NTSC format. When I create the slideshow, it now leaves slight borders of the background image when the actual slide should be taking up the entire frame. This only happens on the sides of the image and not the top and bottom. I haven't tried making my own background image to see if that will fix the problem. I did try removing the background image - but that didn't seem to work - it still included the default image. Despite the length of my comments - I still am very grateful for the program! Keep up the good work! - Rob | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Mar 12 16:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Dupcak,
Thanks for your helpfull remarks.
This might some encoder stuff(noise) it's seldom I get these - and it's really random. I didn't code any of the encoders - so it's pretty much out of my hands. Renderings which turn out black is even more seldom for me - it might be a problem in the coding language. With these two issues I think that the only thing to do is to rerender the thing and hope for the best :( . But as I said it doesn't happen to me that often anymore.
BTW. the avi-encoder doesn't add music - sorry about that. Not on my computer anyway.
Here the background does get scalet okay. DSG will downscale the image until both width or height are within the safe area. If you want to get rid of the background and the photo doesn't cover the whole background, you can add an animation to the slides. I mean select all your slides, open slidesettings, tick animation, hit the animation button, zoom a bit in at the first frame, add a key, go to the last frame, zoom the same amount, add a key, and okay it. That way you can get the image to cover the background - but at bit of the top and bottom will be cropped.
There must be a background image - even if its just black.
Thanks! Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| ballywho posted 2006 Mar 18 07:07 | ||||||||||||||
| WARN: System header found, but PCI/DSI information is not where expected
Hey Yeah Wow!!!! I was getting these error messages too. A bit disconcerting but when things seemed to work, I just figured that was normal. Of course it would be nice to understand the error message and if not relevant have them not appear. Happy hunting guys. Over another 1/4 of the year gone already. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 01 12:18 | ||||||||||||||
| 0.63 out...Download here!
- Added avs export - use ex. Super to import the avs file and render to ex. flash! - Faster and cleaner render. - Fixed a mp3 bug. - Added latest Quenc and Avisynth. - Bugfixes. That's all for now. @ballywho - where do you see this error? Now with the avs export - it's very easy to try out some of the other encoders... ex. HCenc, Freeenc, VitrualDub, Super ect. If you're having trouble instaling avisynth check out this thread: doom9 Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| remialdo posted 2006 Apr 02 03:44 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi, nice program.
I think that tje possibility to save the text as a subtitles file (str, sub..) it could be a good idea. The new version main file is "DVDsGUI063.exe" when the last was "DVDsGUI062.exe" so i have to delete the old file, Idea: for the future it must be the same name so one replace the other Another thing i don´t know what people prefer, but i like portable applications, and this program save thing in the windows registry :( | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 02 15:27 | ||||||||||||||
@ remialdo
That might be a good idea - I've thought about it myself, however there are a couple of things I must do first.
Always uninstall the old version before installing a new. I like that people can see it's a new file - and I won't mix up the different versions.
It's only avisynth using the registry, I guess it's for running avs files in the player ect. Thanks, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| shotman posted 2006 Apr 03 04:16 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin!
I downloaded ver. 63 of DVDSlideshowGUI and used it first time to create an mpeg menu with 5 stills and an mp3 song to use inside a DVDStyler project. Everything was ok. Your program rendered the photos and audio correctly into a playable mpg file. I put this file into my DVDStyler project and when tried to create the DVD with DVDStyler, it stopped and DVDAuthor told me that a certain 'cygwin.dll' had two different versions or something like that (forgot to copy the log file to show you). So my question is: Can interfere this new version of DVDSlideshowGUI with other DVDAuthor packages in other programs (DVDStyler, GUI for DVDAuthor, DVDAuthorGUI)? Look forward to your news. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 03 06:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Try copying the files from DVDstyler/dvdauthor/ to DVD slideshow GUI/bin and overwrite the files in DsGs bin folder. It might be because I haven't updated the dvdauthor files a long time. Let me know if that works for you.
I'm gettig reports on 0.63 errors - I suspect it's a new avisynth install which is causing these problems. Did you install the avisynth included in the DVDsGUI pagage? Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| shotman posted 2006 Apr 03 06:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin!
You are right! I was not able to install the Avisynth package enclosed with DVDSlideshowGUI .63. I suppose it is due to a prior Avisynth install in my C:\Program files\Avisynth folder (Your installer reports there is not enough room in this folder) and was not important for me as your NICE application created my first .mpg file OK. Again, thanks both for your great program and your help for my problems. You know, now I am at work and am using my desktop PC, but as soon as I get back home, I will try your tip on cygwin1.dll. Regards, | ||||||||||||||
| SingSing posted 2006 Apr 03 08:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Wow, Great work.
I am speechless, so I have to type this to say THANK YOU. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 04 12:14 | ||||||||||||||
| 0.64
- Added: Export to .srt(subtitles). - Added: option to deselect text as graphics. - Added: New icons. - Added: Border to animated images. - Bugfix: Chapters. - Bugfix: Render. - Update: Latest DVDauthor. - Update: Now almost dos popup free. - Update: Render cleanup. (from srt you can always convert to .sub with any of the great free subtitle tools) [EDIT: 5/4.2006 Had to do a fix for this bug in AviSynth 2.5.7 Alpha2: - This version has had the automatic output ConvertAudioTo16Bit disabled to ease the testing of input of WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT type steams. Audio Sample type float will be output as WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT to the host application. None of the popular application can currently handle this stream type. Add a ConvertAudioTo16Bit() to the end of your script. This will be restored for the next release. A fixed version of .64 is uploaded] Have fun, Tin2tin
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| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 09 16:56 | ||||||||||||||
| Updated:
0.65 - Added: Better access to camera animation tool. - Added: Save ini settings. - Added: Save show text option. - Bugfix: Subtitles. - Bugfix: Chapters. (thx Remialdo for finding those bugs!) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 10 02:44 | ||||||||||||||
| Copacetix demo slideshow in xvid with music and animation.
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| hubbabub posted 2006 Apr 10 07:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you tin2tin :!:
The program is getting better and better for every update. /Hubbabub | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 Apr 10 13:21 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi thanks for a great program..
I have been playing around with V0.64 and i have found some strange things... First the newset version of avisynth dont work very well together with GUI for dvdauthor 0.98 (animations in menus) I think its the MPEGDecoder.dll plugin that dont like it. I had to downgrade to V2.5.6b (something). There is a new verions 0.99 but i think the fault lies in the plugin... When i render slides i want to use 16:9 PAL option and i have noticed that i get many rendition errors.... I thought that if I converted all jpg to BMP it would better for the resizing stage...yes the result was better.. After a few more tests i discoverd that the disolve plug in made many errors it seams that the plug in made the errors not the rezing of the image. I change plug in to blurdisolve and the errors wanished.... Before the img conversion to BMP there many errors in a 4:3 rendition, but after the conversion there were no errors at all...only in the 16:9 rendition.... So maybe the random rendition errors can be linked to some fault in the avs plugins ???? Thanks for a great program stars..... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 11 01:09 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Stars,
It has nothing to do with avisynth. It is most likely the coding language(wxbasic) which isn't fast enough to draw the images correctly before saving. Try switching off border, text and textbox under presets for now. When I some day will get a lot of time on my hands I might rewrite the exporter, but these weeks I'm finishing a 4 years long feature film project and have very long days at work. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 Apr 11 03:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi ok I had my thoughts about the timing aspect...I feeled that someting wasnt
doing something quick enought... I only use a black bakground picture and the image... To help the program with the speed issue I have downscaled the big images and the output file is saved on another hdd, not the one with the pictures.. Now the rendition almost work flawless... Time... if we ever could get enought time to do all the things we want to do... Anyway great program....looking forward for new versions regards stars... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 11 18:06 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, I must be crazy or something. Here's a very sketchy test build. See if you can get it to mis-render any images in the different ratios. The downside of this fix is that et means bye-bye to texts as graphics.
Link removed - look further down. This is only to adress the rendering problem and not a full install! Place it inside the installed(version 0.64 dvd slideshow gui mainfolder and run it from there. Important: this build doesn't delete temp files and images. So watch out for filling up dsg main folder with temp files! 2 bugs I haven't fixed: - Unprecise animation. - Avs export doesn't work with animation. Please report back on the rendering issue. Thanks! Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 Apr 12 11:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi...
Great work...I will try it out and give you a report... regards stars... well i had to test it at once.... The speed is fast as lightning...and the export of jpgs (big resulution) are working great... The improvment of speed is very good... ATM i have only done 2 renditions 16:9 PAL with blurdissolve filter and all are turning out fine.... For info Iam running a Pentium IV 2.5GHz and Win XP sp2 All the img files and output file uses the same hdd... No erorrs at all Keep up the great work (if you can spare the time) regards stars.... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 12 17:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks!!
Here's a new testbuild - still adressing the export issues - please test it misrenderings in all the different formats and aspects. Now it doesn't use temp image files and is even faster than before with almost instant previews! Link removed. Add this to the installed dvd slideshow gui 0.65 main folder and run it from there. Please report bugs here... Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 Apr 13 12:16 | ||||||||||||||
| HI....
great work... I have downloaded the newbulid and will test it later tonight... regards stars............ Here are the results **** TESTBENCH ***** Program: DVDsGUI_065B_exportTESTbuild What to test: Rendering problem ---- SET UP ---- Background: Black 720x576 format jpg Avsfilter: Dissolve Exposition: 100 Duration: 5 Number of slides: 30 digital camera photo 2560x1920 avg size 900kB jpg ---------------- *** Results *** PAL 4:3 25 fps....... OK PAL 16:9 25 fps...... OK NTSC 4:3 29.97 fps.. OK NTSC 16:9 29.97 fps.. OK regards stars.... | ||||||||||||||
| SingSing posted 2006 Apr 14 23:04 | ||||||||||||||
| The imported music in MP3 only played one time and stopped. Can I loop it ? or is there a tool let me duplicate itself multiple time I can used ? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 15 02:53 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Stars - Thanks! Now I have to figure out how to get texts back somehow... and add a image type check, because avisynth doesn't support as many image formats as wxbasic(the coding language of the gui).
@ SingSing - It's not possible within the DSG - but there are many tool for repeating a mp3 out there: Audio editors at Videohelp. Audacity and Goldwave(runs unlimited even though it's shareware). Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| SingSing posted 2006 Apr 15 08:52 | ||||||||||||||
| I tried goldwave, it will export wav, but not mp3. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 15 09:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Get LAMEWIN32 from the goldwave page:
http://www.goldwave.com/release.php#download | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 Apr 15 15:14 | ||||||||||||||
Hi try CDex V1.51 its a CD ripper program but it also converts audiofiles into many formats... its freeware and a VERY fine program.. I use this to convert mp2 files to wave But if you are gonig to use your wav files on a DVD you should convert them into 48kHz format... I use Cool edit Pro for this (not freeware).... Take a look around this site ( www.videohelp.com ) and you will find the freeware you need.... regards stars...... (Glad that I could help you Tin2tin !!!!) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 16 06:02 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI is supposed to convert audio files automatically to 48kHz, doesn't it do this for you?
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 16 08:32 | ||||||||||||||
| New unofficial test version up. This time it's a full install. Been working on adding texts as graphics - but placed as subtitles. In order to do this I've added export to .ssa. 'Show text' toggles texts as graphics on and off. Not all font functions can result in subtitles changes, but the font, the size and underlines can be changed.
Been working a bit on the avi import too. Get it here: DVDsGUI_065C_testBUILD Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| jenden posted 2006 Apr 17 08:48 | ||||||||||||||
| why does it ask me for a codec when I do preview? :?:
What do I need just previewing basic slideshow of JPG's Thanks for any reply | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 Apr 17 12:49 | ||||||||||||||
Hi.... Well I havnt add audio to my slides because I use the multitrack function in cool edit... (well i didnt know that the program did the conv.) You know music and comments to the pictures.....so all the sound goes into a 48kHz wav file and then its encoded to DD 2.0 (.ac3) These two files are then muxed together in GUI for DVD author... Its nice to have a homevideo and a set of slidesshows on the same DVD.. Often you are filming and taking photos at the same time... regards stars.... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 17 17:39 | ||||||||||||||
| @ jenden
What codec is it asking for? Did you install the included avisynth? If it's a mpeg decoder you need, the have a look at Liquid 217's recommendations: http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl?p=download
DSG should take avi's too. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 Apr 18 06:21 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi....
Yes... but I use a DV camera and import the video via firewire so the file has the data rate of 25Mbit/s.. 1h30 min can be around 30G,so I edit the video and encode it with TMPGenc. Often with mpeg2 VBR.. Here I also split the video (.mv2) and sound (wav.48kHz). The sound is finally encode to DD 2.0 (.ac3) So the DVD have 2 titelsets one video and one slideshow... I have downloaded the newset build, but i haven tested it yet.... But i made a test with the other test build, with a large slideshow about 150 pics....and had very big problems with the rendering.. I had to give the viritual memory more space (4G) and the whole system slowed down...the rendering stopped at about 40 pics and saved a output file (.mv2).. The slideshow looked fine.. no errors... I even tried the first test build that dosent do the clean up, and this one worked better..... (150 pics, 16:9 PAL,dissolve,100,5) I havent tried the newest bulid (will do that tonight)...maybe there is a memory problem if you render big slideshows.... Now I have tested the newest build with 60 pics size aprox 2Mb each and everything turned out just fine... Same spec. as above.... Maybe there is a upper limit on how many pics you can import into the slideshow. I dont think this is a big problem cause Im testing an extream amount of pics into one slideshow, if there is a problem I can always make the slideshow in smaller parts and later join them... keep up the great work regards stars.... | ||||||||||||||
| indijay posted 2006 Apr 22 23:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Few queries,
Just tried your program, brilliant, I liked it, only I failed to figure out why it made my preview upside down, final file was ok!! Wondered, 1. the text thats written on the top of the slide gets embedded in the picture, is there any chance that it can be rather made as a switchable subtitle, white or any other colour block for the text looks kind of ugly. 2. I didn't try this but is there any possibility to fit the slideshow to the length of music? or add multiple soundtracks for the same slideshow, one after the other? 3. You have animation option but is it same as Ken Burns effect or otherwise is it on your todo list? Many thanks | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Apr 24 15:55 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Stars - it seems that Media Player Classic doesn't shut down properly on big slideshows and eats up memory. Hit ctrl+alt+del and look under processes mplayer.exe is still running, though the interface has been closed.
@ indijay - what version are you refering to? - Avisynth sometimes turns images upside down. I hope that this bug will be fixed some day. 1. Under presets you can toggle show texts as graphics on off. 2. No - look above in the thread. Use ex. Goldwave for adding more music and export as one file. 3. Animation is the same as Ken Burns(I think he invented the zooming in on still images?) | ||||||||||||||
| indijay posted 2006 Apr 24 22:28 | ||||||||||||||
| I figured out this graphics on/off using textbox but still it embeds the text into the image and doesn't treat as a "switchable" subtitle, so anyway that can be turned into a subtitle?
I am using the 0.65 version. Is there any limit for number of pictures that I can add in one slideshow? I tried to add about 850 pictures and it gave me few errors!! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 May 01 11:30 | ||||||||||||||
| It is the 'show text' switch enable/disable texts as graphics.
Wow 850 images might be overdoing it... :shock: I haven't tried this myself - good to know. You might want to devide it into smaller slideshows. Under DGS help there is a little tutorial on how to add more slideshows to the same DVD. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| indijay posted 2006 May 01 23:00 | ||||||||||||||
| I understand that I can add more than one slideshow in the DVD but since all these images come from single event, I wanted to make one file out of it.
Now I tried to do with half of the images but the folder still contain 850 images and as I changed the directory, I started getting errors. Th error screenshots are as follows, total 5 but only two are here 
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| tin2tin posted 2006 May 02 12:59 | ||||||||||||||
| I guess it's because 5 of the images are unreadable and won't be loaded into DSG. Are there any special letters in the filenames? | ||||||||||||||
| indijay posted 2006 May 02 22:34 | ||||||||||||||
| No, not really. All are jpegs, shot with the same camera, max length of the file is approx 25 characters!!!
Now I copied approx 400 images in another new directory and tried to import. Windows gave me message saying its running out of virtual memory and DVDAuthorGUI offered two errors repeatedly till I clicked cancel - Screenshots below. It imported the images (I am not too sure if its imported all the images) and then made a log file saying "JPEG: Couldn't load - file is probably corrupted." with different time stamps. It doesn't tell me which images it considers as corrupted but first quick look doesn't suggest me any jpeg being dropped out of the imported list. None of the images in the directory are corrupted as I ran slideshow in preview to confirm and all worked well. Any more explanation?? 
Update: I saved imported files as dsg project and closed the program as it just won't allow me to execute any other program (may be because of low virtual memory) I tried to open project again and there are thumbnails of only first 84 images, rest image names and paths are there but no thumbnails, if that gives you more clue. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 May 03 00:52 | ||||||||||||||
| You might need to higher the virtual memory?
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| indijay posted 2006 May 03 14:06 | ||||||||||||||
| True but can you make any sense out of these errors and not showing those thumbnails??
I have virtual memory issue when I do high end statistical computing as well but it works if I don't touch mouse or don't run any other application. I would guess, my computing would eat hell load of virtual memory than this application for reading image files!! | ||||||||||||||
| stars posted 2006 May 08 11:53 | ||||||||||||||
Hi... I make slides shows with about 50 pic in the .m2v format. Then i join them with DgmpgDec ... Now i have got one file but the time code is corrupt so I put it through projectx . The output is one file .m2v and a correct time code. Maybe there is a better way, but this one works for me The sound is another strory... stars... | ||||||||||||||
| choi888@pacbell.net posted 2006 Jul 19 12:20 | ||||||||||||||
| downloaded DVDsGUI065, installed with no problem. export a slidershow to mpg and no problem. But, if I export to DVD specifying filename = fishing. It created fishing.txt and fishing_bd.mpg and a fishing sub folder. Inside this fishing subfolder are 2 empty folders - AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. There are no .IFO and .BUP and .VOB files at all. WHat is wrong?
Also, if I export to ISO, it created a fishing.iso, fishing.txt, fishing_bd.mpg, and a 0 byte fishing_c0.m2a file and a fishing sub folder. Under this fishing sub folder are 2 empty folders - AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS wit no files in it. What do I do with all these files to burn a DVD? Thanks for your help. I found out that the problem is due to the advanced option of QuEnc - "Mpeg-2 Mux Profile" is stuck at "No Audio". I change it to "to DVD" and it is working now. | ||||||||||||||
| choi888@pacbell.net posted 2006 Jul 19 12:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Onw more question - where can I download more background patterns (JPEG files)? | ||||||||||||||
| choi888@pacbell.net posted 2006 Jul 19 23:50 | ||||||||||||||
| Actually I encountered more problems. Exporting to .ac3 does not work. Looks like it invokes Quenc to create a .ac3 file but then after that a DOS command box "demux" came up. Ran for a long time and created a .m2a file but the .ac3 file was gone. This .m2a file is not rcognizable by muxman anf ifoedit. Looks like the only EXPORT option that works for me is .m2v but nothing else. What am I doing wrong? Now, even outoutting to .mpg does not work, it creates a .m2v instaed. Looks like it stuck creating .m2v.
I found out that the problem is due to the advanced option of QuEnc - "Mpeg-2 Mux Profile" is stuck at "No Audio". I change it to "to DVD" and it is working now. | ||||||||||||||
| choi888@pacbell.net posted 2006 Jul 20 10:52 | ||||||||||||||
| Problem: when I choose NTSC 16:9, the TEXT, TEXTBOX disapper. No way to get it to be displayed.
I found the solution. In "Presets" screen, just right mouse click on the botton of the slide display, the text surfaced. | ||||||||||||||
| choi888@pacbell.net posted 2006 Jul 21 11:36 | ||||||||||||||
| I have a lot of problem with the slideshow ended abruptly on the last slide or missing the last few slides. I found out that MPLEX is aborting leaving the .mpg file too short. The error message is:
"too many frames dropped" This problem can be fixed by downloading the latest version of QuEnc (V.070) to replace the V.061 from DVD Slideshow GUI. However, there is a new problem. MPLEX error out with "Frame data under-run detected" The problem can be fixed by running QuEnc and set "2 pass encoding". Also, make sure the advanced option - audio codec is set to "AC3". Click "Apply" and quit. It took me a long time and many many digging around, trial and error to sovle these problems. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Jul 27 07:08 | ||||||||||||||
| choi888@pacbell.net - thanks for your bug reports and solutions.
I've tried to fix the bugs in this testbuild: DVDsGUI_065D_TestBUILD (Be aware that texts are non moveable in this version and the textbox options is grayed out) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Aug 01 15:10 | ||||||||||||||
| Yet another update. Check the homepage link bellow.
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Aug 02 10:58 | ||||||||||||||
| How to get a flash slideshow with sound on a webpage with freeware:
1. Export your DVD slideshow GUI slideshow in .avs format. 2. Convert the .avs file in Super to .avi(with sound). 3. Get this tool called Free Riva FLV Encoder (Super doesn't encode flv correct for streaming). 4. Use this to encode the .avi to .flv. 5. Get the free FlowPlayer: http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/flow.html 6. Add html and files this way: http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/howto.html Check out my attempt on the DVD slideshow GUI homepage. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| stevetx posted 2006 Oct 08 13:55 | ||||||||||||||
| I recently discovered [u]DVD Slideshow GUI [/u] while reviewing a list of posts in VideoHelp.com. I downloaded / installed version 0.66. The program is impressive. Following are my comments:
1. The function (button) to align text left/center/right described as 'combobox' in "Help" does not appear to be present in 0.66. 2. It is easy to use alternate background jpg files. 3. The setup of individual slides for a slideshow is easy and fast (more so than prior used program). 4. Saving the Project works great and fully supports the potential need for change to the slideshow. 5. Preview sometimes is a problem. It apparently runs (the hourglass appears) but there is no display of a slideshow. After Preview apparently completes, [u]DVD Slideshow GUI [/u]is locked up. CTRL-ALT-DEL was used to exit. 6. Export to mpg runs faster than any prior used programs. 7. Export to mpg sometimes is a problem. After Export apparently completes, [u]DVD Slideshow GUI [/u]is locked up. CTRL-ALT-DEL was used to exit. The mpg is okay. 8. All created and saved slideshow mpg have played perfectly and look great regardless of normal end or lock up of [u]DVD Slideshow GUI[/u]. 9. The quantity of slides used seems to affect performance and also lockup on occassion. An "exceptable quantity" will result from future uses. A lock up was experienced using about 100 slides. Making segmented slideshows (with a "resonable" quantity of slides) and then merging these mpg segments in VideoRedo works okay. 10. The only real problems are #5 and #7 above. When looking at Processes after doing CTRL-ALT-DEL, it looks like QuEnc.exe and/or mplayerc.exe were still open and using cpu. Thus, it is assumed they had not released control back to [u]DVD Slideshow GUI [/u] placing it in somewhat of a wait mode. A restart "cleans the machine up," resulting in [u]DVD Slideshow GUI[/u] working okay. However, when a lock up would return in somewhat of a random fashion (no specific thing seemed to cause the lock up), Restart was needed again to clear out the left open processes. 11. All in all, for a tool in development, [u]DVD Slideshow GUI [/u] shows great promise - Looking forward to future releases. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Oct 09 11:00 | ||||||||||||||
Hi Stevetx,
This function has been removed thanks to the new subtitle way of showing/exporting descriptions. But I should remove the description of this function under help. Thanks.
Thanks.
Unfortunately Media Player Classic tends to "hang" in the memory and doesn't shut down properly, if more than 100 frames are used. I've been looking for alternative media players which are able to run these large avisynth scripts from a commandline, but I haven found anything yet. Let me know if anyone finds anything. The player can be changed under presets.
Same problem as above(The MPC thing). After rendering mpc is called to show the file.
At the moment CTRL-ALT-DEL and removing mplayerc.exe after each run af mpc is the only solution, when working with large slideshows. The other alternative is to use the 0.65 version, which has a completely different render code, using a lot of temp files. Thanks for your notes and everything. Sorry about the MPC thing. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| stevetx posted 2006 Oct 09 15:06 | ||||||||||||||
| I had not thought about changing the player. So, your comment about doing so in Presets made me take a look. The first player I tried was the NeroMediaPlayer. It worked; however, it does not close automatically. NeroMediaPlayer is on screen so I closed in manually. Everything was fine with DVD Slideshow GUI - that is no lock up so far. | ||||||||||||||
| dazipser posted 2006 Oct 09 18:35 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you very much for this excellent freeware. I am really impressed and enjoy using it.
I still don't manage two things, which I would like to seek advice for: (i) Maximize photo in slideshow on screen (automatically). The photos do not use the full screen, but a frame appears around the photo, which is not wanted. (ii) The aspect ratio does not appear locked. It appears that the aspect ratio of the photos changed after slideshow creation. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Oct 10 02:58 | ||||||||||||||
| @ stevetx: I don't have the NeroMediaPlayer. It isn't freeware is it? But good to hear that it works for you. Does it even play when you preview slideshows in DSG?
@ dazipser: Under Presets type in '0' as 'save X' + 'save Y' values and click off the 'border' function. Now your image will be scaled down, so that it eighter meets the x or y edge of the frame. If your image doesn't fit the ratio, and your background is still visible, then you can use the animation/Pan-rotate-zoom tool. Zoom in and add a keyframe in the begining and end of the slide. (btw DSG's safe area function doesn't scale images up, only down) Could you explain your (ii) remark a bit more detailed? Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| stevetx posted 2006 Oct 10 19:09 | ||||||||||||||
| You are correct, the Nero Media Player is not free - it comes as part of the Nero retail package. I tried it for kicks just to see if it would work with DVD Slideshow GUI and it did - in the Export mode. For some unknown reason it does not work in the Preview mode and I am not going to pursue that.
Here is an interesting player to try - the DivX Player from divx.com works in both the Preview and the Export mode. The DivX Player is free and comes in the DivX package which contains both trial and free software (during installation of the package, you can select to install only the player if you do not need to mess with DivX stuff). In the past I have been able to play almost any video format with the DivX Player even though its real intent is the DivX format. It does not close automatically so manual close is necessary to get back to DVD Slideshow Gui control. After trying it several times, there was one occassion that it would not close via the "click X" but did close using the right click to get the pop up menu, then click Close, and then click End Now (shortcut Ctrl/Alt/Del). This has only happened once (so far) in the Preview mode. Export has always worked fine. Hey, as I have said before, DVD Slideshow GUI is pretty neat. I am still trying to learn some of the mechanics and there is a lot there to learn. Thanks again for a great tool. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Oct 12 04:36 | ||||||||||||||
| Theres a newer version of MPC here. I don't have time to test it though.
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/#mpc Tin2tin EDIT: Same thing :-( | ||||||||||||||
| stevetx posted 2006 Oct 12 11:51 | ||||||||||||||
| I downloaded and installed the newer version of Media Player Classic. I renamed the older version before install of newer version. It still carries the same version number (6.4.9.0) as that downloaded with DSG. However, the new version size is 3.93 MB whereas the size of the older version is 5.42 MB.
The lockup behavior is still present with this new version. The work around with Ctrl/Alt/Del to close the process works okay and DSG is back in control. | ||||||||||||||
| stevetx posted 2006 Oct 12 17:12 | ||||||||||||||
| I did a few tests today during which I alternated between the DivX Player (DXP) and the new version of Media Player Classic (MPC). I got a lock up with DXP in the Preview Mode which had never happened previously. As noted in my previous post, I had gotten a lock up with the new MPC also. With Ctrl/Alt/Del, I observed that DXP was still present and using CPU even though I had closed it - this is just like MPC's behavior when DSG locks up. After ending the process, DSG was back in control and all worked fine.
This suggests to me that the problem might be somewhere other than the player; however, I know nothing about programming or how these things work and maybe the mechanism that is the trouble is the same within MPC and DXP. Its just odd that I can close the program (MPC or DXP) and when the lockup occurs, it still appears in process and DSG thinks it is not yet back in control. Bottom Line - DSG is working fine for me and it is a great tool. I am not concerned about this lock up problem as it does have a workaround which doesn't stop my use of DSG. | ||||||||||||||
| dazipser posted 2006 Oct 21 06:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you very much for the quick reply. My problem is that the aspect ratio of the photo changes when creating the slideshow. I tried the resolution of 3008*2256 pixel as well as 3008*2000 (which is the initial size which came from the photographer).
Thank you very much in advance for any help. | ||||||||||||||
| bernardvideo posted 2006 Nov 04 13:05 | ||||||||||||||
| Amazing program!
Is there any way I can see the avisynth script that DVD slideshow generates? I'd like to be able to customize the avisynth script that DVD slideshow creates. (For example I want to output to 352x240 mjpeg with Virtualdub.) | ||||||||||||||
| bernardvideo posted 2006 Nov 06 18:44 | ||||||||||||||
| Never mind. I didn't notice the save as .avs. | ||||||||||||||
| wzrlpy posted 2006 Dec 03 07:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Very nice program!
I like specially the "save as .avs" option, it allows me to feed the slideshow right into ffmpeg (the last versions support AVS input), and convert it to DVD output. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 05 13:22 | ||||||||||||||
| The new version can render flash(flv) ready to add to your blog or homepage!
Version 0.68 Changelog: 0.68 - Flash(.flv) NTSC & 16:9 ratio prefix added. - Animation access bug fixed. - Presets redraw. - Upscale avi when exporting. 0.67 - Export as .flv added. - Copy/paste flv code into your html page/blog. - Bugfixes. - Smaller avs files. - Memory leak fixed. @ wzrlpy Thanks! Btw. DVDsGUI can render to dvd file formats either as .iso(burn as image) or DVD folders(burn as DVD data disc). Both DVD disks will play in your DVD standalone player. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 11 03:45 | ||||||||||||||
| I think I might have found (and taken the avisynth-function out) that caused Media Player Classic to keep running in the background after it was closed.
I've re-uploaded the whole thing with this little fix in under the same name. (Be aware that working with very large slideshows it is advised to higher your virtual memory. For me previewing a 50 minutes long slideshow eats up 2 GB of (virtual) memory.) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 13 11:41 | ||||||||||||||
| Update:
0.69 - New buttons. - NTSC avi-sound fix - NTSC/PAL avi framerate check. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 14 09:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Made a new tutorial:
How to make a slide show with DVD slideshow GUI and burn a DVD-disc ready to play in a standalone DVD player with Img Burn. (Actually I fixed som more bugs concerning the animation tool, and uploaded under the same filename) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2006 Dec 15 00:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Wow this thing has been a lot of work.
tin2tin, thanks for your work. Was using .68 this evening(don't know why) and have started the .69 download. Those scripts are massive. I think I'll use them to debug avsFilmCutter's lexer. found a couple of creepy crawlies in .068 if they are still in .069 I'll let you know. Thanks again, I like alot. Rob | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 15 07:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks man! I would like to hear about what you find.
I've uploaded a new version: 0.70 - Faster importer - Lager images in list - Avs slimmed - Faster preset redraw. - Animation tool bugs fixed. AvsFilmCutter is a great tool - thank you too! Let me know if you find som ways to lower the memory use in the avisynth script. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2006 Dec 15 10:42 | ||||||||||||||
| Testing version .70.
These items seem to have multiple legs.
Throws an error titled “Internal error” “Memory error (SIGSEGV) add() in file “DVD slideshow path”, line 1237: > wg_imagelist.Add(bmp[i])" I am not a script guru, just begining to understand what you are doing. If I see something I will share. Rob | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 15 18:16 | ||||||||||||||
@ebobtron
Thanks, I'll check it out.
I'm using "\n" added to the string normally it will just result in a new line. I don't know what to do about this.
I saw this one some hours ago. I've fixed it and uploaded under the same name, so the 0.70 is fixed now. Thanks alot for testing it! :) Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2006 Dec 15 19:02 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
I do not want to swear, ah, “hell”, I love to swear. Try “blah blah string \r\n” | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 15 19:13 | ||||||||||||||
| lol.
I'll give it a try. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2006 Dec 16 02:19 | ||||||||||||||
The adding slides thingy works how, great. Thanks. Some more before bedtime.
Just off the top of my head. I would say tomorrow, but ’tis morrow already. Later dude. Rob | ||||||||||||||
| luigi2000 posted 2006 Dec 16 04:40 | ||||||||||||||
| I gave v0.70 a try. The interface is very good. After importing 70 pictures and modifying animation to several pictures, the app generated an access violation when scrolling in the client area. After restarting and importing 10 pictures and modifying animation, the preview is not accurate. Four second show time requests play for nine or more seconds. Please get the timings right. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 17 13:29 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks guys for finding those bugs and such.
1. Sometime ago DVDsGUI saved resized images as temp files and two scripts was used. Now everything is done in one go. But I haven't cleaned up the code of the two different scripts. Well until today - that is. Imgout is the variable where all the images are stored before making transitions and animations. 2. I've fixed that... 3. ...in this(0.70b) test version which must be placed in the DVDsGUI folder and run from there. (no installer and 1.3 MB :) ) And replacing the vsfilter.dll in the bin folder with this, should make Media Player Classic shut down properly. 4. I need a little more explanation to finde that access violation error... was it written in the player this error? 5. The preview is not and will not be in sync as stated in the help-files. 6. The DVDsGUI timing is sligthly off - but not as much as you write - the duration in Media Player Classic is the one to believe. Please report back if MPC still hangs after replacing the vsfilter file. Thanks. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 20 13:16 | ||||||||||||||
| New version 0.71
- Export .all (m2v, ac3, ssa, txt in one go) added. - Fps check when importing avi - Import avi length - Ensure selected is visible(after slide settings) - New vsfilter(fixes MPC hang) - Animation space for border - Version check when loading - Export cleanup - Avs save bug. Get the whole pagage at the homepage here or just the gui only. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2006 Dec 20 15:00 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
Thanks for the separate GUI release, makes the check out faster. Throws an error on start with the prior “new.ini”, presets are rather screwed too (delete “new.ini” from folder if using just the GUI, DVD Slideshow will remake it). I confirm that the AVS export bug is gone, thank you. :) Question, does the \r\n thing work or should I keep looking for a solution? Sorry I have gone a little quiet, I am in the middle of a major DVD production; thanks to you, I know how to do it. :) Rob | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 20 15:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Ebobtron,
Thanks for checking the new release. Yes, you're right the “new.ini” has changed a bit in this version. This problem is not in the installed version. Your way to solve it is the way to do it. :)
Great thanks!
I haven't looked into that yet - sorry. \r is surported in wxbasic - so I can give it a try.
Great. You should be aware that this update is not able to load old dsg files. (That's why you got problems with the new.ini). Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 21 03:41 | ||||||||||||||
| Oh, I somehow managed to break the import af avi files in the previous version.
I think, I've fixed now and tried to make proper line breaks, when exporting avs files(for Ebobtron :) ). The pagage on the homepage is updated with the two things: here. Or just overwrite the DVDslideshowGUI.exe file with this gui-only file: here. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2006 Dec 21 10:57 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
Is there a way to import pictures with transparencies into DVD slideshow GUI? I tried to use PNG files with transparent edges but the edges appear white. The pictures that I am using for my slideshow has rough edges. I do not want to crop off the edges. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 21 14:56 | ||||||||||||||
@ kjvsword
I'm sorry, no I don't think so. :( If you're not affraid to work with the avisynth code (export as .avs - open in notepad and preview in MPC) then you could try to change the addback functions with overlay. And change the imagesource to this way:
You can read about how to use overlay here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=116160&highlight=alpha Good luck, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2006 Dec 21 15:26 | ||||||||||||||
| @ tin2tin
If I use animation on a portrait image, it gets stretched out to look like landscape. It makes people look very fat. Can I use animation on portrait images without this happening? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 22 02:07 | ||||||||||||||
| Make sure that Media Player Classic is set to the right aspect ratio. Set it under: View/Video frame. This affects only viewing the slideshow, the final DVD should be allright.
(MPC doesn't have commandline swiches for the ratios - so I can't set them automatically for yoy from DVD slideshow GUI) Merry chrismas and happy new year to everybody! Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2006 Dec 26 21:53 | ||||||||||||||
@ Tin2tin My final mpeg or AVI has horizontally stretched portrait images. It's not just the preview. It only happens to portrait images that I use an animation on. It seems OK with landscape images. Do I have to stay away from animation when it comes to the portrait images? | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2006 Dec 26 22:47 | ||||||||||||||
| Found a fix(work around)..
in Options .. Presets .. I unselected border and then it quit stretching the portrait images during an animation. If you want it with a border, rotate it 90 degrees before loading it in DSG. Then in the animation dialog, in the first key, you can rotate the image 270 degrees (or -90 degrees). Thank you tin2tin, kjvsword | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 28 17:26 | ||||||||||||||
| @ kjvsword,
Thanks for finding that bug. I see it now. I'll try to solve it asap. :) If you find anything else please let me know. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2006 Dec 29 09:50 | ||||||||||||||
| @ tin2tin
What happened to background_golden.jpg? It's not gold no more. It's too dark.  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2006 Dec 30 04:26 | ||||||||||||||
| @ kjvsword
My girlfriend didn't like it. She thought it looked like skin with freckles, so I changed it(but not the name(I was too lazy I guess)). The animation-squeeze-border bug is fixed, but I found a new one. If animation is added to to different sized images, the first ones will not be correctly centered. This one is quite difficult to solve, but I'm working on it. :) If you like the original golden background, let me know and I'll upload it. Happy new year! Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| nicodus posted 2007 Jan 03 11:16 | ||||||||||||||
| After looking for a program to make a slideshow I found DVD slideshow GUI. This program looks very good to me, especially because of the excellent panning and zooming effects.
In my opinion the maker did a great job with this GUI. And there are also many formats to export. About that I have a question. When I want to make a show for computerscreen the resolution can only be set to standard DVD resulutions (well, thats in the name of the GUI and has to be expect of course). But because this program is capable of making a nice show, it should be fine if there is an option to set a higher resolution than that of a DVD. Is there a possibility to do that (can I overrule these presets in the parameter line of the QuEnc or in an ini file?) Thanks for answering in advanced Happy newyear for all | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jan 04 22:14 | ||||||||||||||
Yes upload it for me please.. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jan 05 09:56 | ||||||||||||||
@ kjvsword
I think it's fixed now - and also some other things concerning the animation tool. GUI only version here: DVDsGUI_071c_gui_only.exe (As pr. 5.jan 2007 this file is included in the pagage as well)
Okay get it here: background_golden.jpg @ nicodus Save as avs. Open in notepad. Replace the values of the saved file into the size you want. Load the new avs file into Quenc and render. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jan 06 10:43 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
Here's a few backgrounds that you can include with the GUI if you like. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/rmgjo/background_golden_weaved.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/rmgjo/background_weave2.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/rmgjo/background_Paperbag2.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/rmgjo/background_Paperbag.jpg | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jan 06 13:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Great! They are very nice(and my girlfriend agrees! :) )
Did the latest version fix that bug you mentioned? Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jan 06 19:43 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
Yes I believe that your latest fix fixed my problem with bordered portrait images. Thank's man.. | ||||||||||||||
| nicodus posted 2007 Jan 07 01:43 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks,
That was where I was looking for. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jan 09 10:42 | ||||||||||||||
| I've been playing around with the MSU_Cartooner virtual dub plugin.
guitoon.avi guidraw.avi guipaint.avi (Encoded with xvid) Does anyone think this will be usefull as a feature in DVD slideshow GUI? | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jan 09 15:58 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
If you mean allowing DVD Slideshow GUI to transform the images with that cartoonlike effect, then yes I think it'll be cool. | ||||||||||||||
| StephanC posted 2007 Jan 12 07:29 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello,
I Just downloaded DVD slideshow GUI. When i want to preview my first film the following text appears by opening media player classic: --- Start of quote --- Media Player Classic could not render some of the pins in the graph, you may not have the needed codecs or filters instaled on the system. The following pin(s) failed to find a connectable filter: C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\DVDsGUItemp.avs::Avisynth video #1. Media Type 0: -------------------------- Video: YV12 720x576 25.00fps AM_MEDIA_TYPE: majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_YV12 {32315659-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A} bFixedSizeSamples: 1 bTemporalCompression: 0 lSampleSize: 622080 cbFormat: 88 VIDEOINFOHEADER: rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0) rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0) dwBitRate: 0 dwBitErrorRate: 0 AvgTimePerFrame: 400000 BITMAPINFOHEADER: biSize: 40 biWidth: 720 biHeight: 576 biPlanes: 1 biBitCount: 12 biCompression: YV12 biSizeImage: 622080 biXPelsPerMeter: 0 biYPelsPerMeter: 0 biYPelsPerMeter: 0 biClrUsed: 0 biClrImportant: 0 pbFormat: 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 1a 06 00 00 00 00 00 ........€....... 0030: 28 00 00 00 d0 02 00 00 40 02 00 00 01 00 0c 00 (...Ð...@....... 0040: 59 56 31 32 00 7e 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 YV12.~.......... 0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ --- End of quote --- In the screen are two buttons. <Look for codecs on the net > en <Close>. The first one opens http://www.gabest.org/ but i don't know what codec I need. When I open the <Close> button media player classic opens but the screen is black. Does anyone of you know what i can do to make DVD slideshow GUI work on my computer. Thanks already, Stephan | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jan 12 17:31 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi StephanC,
Try to get ffdshow, install it and make sure that under the Video Decoder Configuration, Avisynth isn't disabled. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| bushy555 posted 2007 Jan 13 00:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
Downloaded DVD slideshow v71 at about 6:30am this morning after somebody on the yahoogroups freeware list told me about it. 9 hours later it is still crashing on my computer. I finally got it to load up 640 pics (is there a limit? It crashed approx 8 times) and then attempting to save to either .MP2 or .ISO she just spits the dummy and crashes. Have just about given up, but then saw this forum. Any ideas? Fully reinstalled XP SP2 only on Monday... Got 20Gb harddrive free, and computer has 512mb ram. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jan 13 03:49 | ||||||||||||||
| You are using too many images with too little ram. You raise your virtual memory and use fewer images. If you hit ctrl+alt+del you can see in the bottom of that window how your memory situation is.
For me it eats up 1.5 gb of (+virtual) ram with 100*3 mb photos. Somewhere in this thread it is explained how to merge more shorter slideshows into one big. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jan 19 08:13 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
If using avisynth to merge shorter slideshows into one big one, is it better to use Quenc or Virtualdub to do it? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jan 20 10:08 | ||||||||||||||
| If you're merging avisynth scripts, processing it will eat up as much memory as doing it all from DsG.
However if you render each from DsG and the merge it, here's a way to do it(I think - I haven't tried): Here Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jan 20 10:34 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
http://slideitondvd.com/Softwares.html | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2007 Feb 04 22:22 | ||||||||||||||
@tin2tin
Been lots busy. Written scripts look real good. Thanks I had been having an exchange with IanB @ http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=921900#post921900 about scripts like yours that fail when using large Jpegs and lots of them. Try using SetMermoryMax(256) but I cannot tell how to calculate the need. Back to DVD slideshow GUI Still, there is so much that can be done with this type of thing. You have some cool ideas here. @kjvsword
I do not get it. You thank not one person or thing. You claim this software supports your efforts. I got to see what the dragon thinks of this Sorry tin2tin, some things just amaze me. | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Feb 06 13:39 | ||||||||||||||
| I am thanking the free software creators for what they have accomplished. But I am seeing if software creators like media chance or photodex will step up and help by donating their software. This will just speed up the process of making the free memory DVDs. If they don't that is just fine with me. We can continue creating the DVDs with the software we are currently using. There are a few things I find quite irreplacable in DVD Slideshow GUI. So we will continue using it no matter what. Thank you Tin2tin for all your work. Sorry if I offended anyone. | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2007 Feb 06 14:34 | ||||||||||||||
| You just don't get it, claiming that I support you is not thanking me. | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Feb 06 18:41 | ||||||||||||||
@ebobtron OK so does the page look a little better now. http://slideitondvd.com/Softwares.html What software that I have listed did you code? Is it QuEnc? That's a great program.. | ||||||||||||||
| ebobtron posted 2007 Feb 06 21:24 | ||||||||||||||
Your current thank you statement is a huge improvement. Although satisfactory alone, the suporters thing, to me, just seems wrong.
Listing the software you use is a very nice thing to do. Looking at DVD Slideshow GUI a little closer you'll find the need to list AviSynth.org and the author of the zoom plugin and maybe more. And another thing about DVD Slideshow GUI. Add a couple of dozen jpegs and play with them then export the .avs script. Then open the script in notepad or another text editor of your choice. tin2tin's programing effort writes that text, every charactor. tin2tin takes the info we provide writes a program for us that does the job. It is a lot of work. You are confirming my first thoughts
Thank you. | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Feb 06 23:08 | ||||||||||||||
| @ebobtron
How would I go about crediting the zoom plug in. I don't directly use AviSynth but I guess I can credit AviSynth like: Video Scripting Language Provided by: AviSynth (freeware) When using DVD slideshow GUI I don't directly use QuEnc. But when I use Slide-Show-Movie-Maker (SSMM) it outputs the video to an avi file and that's where I have to directly use QuEnc directly. I guess I need to list Media Player Classic too. Is the page looking better now? | ||||||||||||||
| jmarchetti posted 2007 Feb 15 09:40 | ||||||||||||||
Hi Tin2tin, I am having the same problem Stephan is having and I tried your suggestion with no success. Is there anything else I should be aware of ? Is there a checklist of what is needed ? Thanks, Jose Luis Marchetti | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Feb 15 14:47 | ||||||||||||||
| Did you download the program from here: http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/?
And also the included avisynth? And did you try to enable avisynth with ffdshow? | ||||||||||||||
| jmarchetti posted 2007 Feb 16 08:35 | ||||||||||||||
| Tintin,
I have unstalled everything and re-installed again just to make sure I can answer you questions: "Did you download the program from here: http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/" Yes, version 0.71 "And also the included avisynth?" Yes, the instalation do not give the option to remove its instalation. "And did you try to enable avisynth with ffdshow?" Yes, I just enabled avisynth at video decode configuration, all the other options are disabled. I also tried in my work computer( another Win 2000 ), but I got the same error. Do you think I should try another version(s) ? Thanks, Jose Luis Marchetti | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Feb 16 08:50 | ||||||||||||||
| To check if this is an avisynth problem try to take one of the .avs files from the avisynth 2.5/Exmples and drag it on to Media Player Classic. If there the same problem happens with one of the example files then it's an avisynth problem.
I would suggest that you enabled all formats you might be using in ffdshow. I don't think that this has anything to do with the dvdsgui versions. Edit: I haven't tried this install ever on win2000 - and I don't know if avisynth has any problems with it. I don't know how to reproduce this error. Have you pm'ed StephanC? EDIT2: From the avisynth docs:
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| jmarchetti posted 2007 Feb 16 20:56 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi TinTin,
I really appreciate your effort on trying to figure this issue out. AviSynth worked with no problems. Media Player Classic played all the AviSynth examples with no problem. I also performed the AviSynth test using WMP 6.4 and I could see the AsySynth version. Is there any other test I can perform ? Also I will send a pm to Stephan. Thanks again! Jose Luis Marchetti | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Feb 17 06:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Maybe you can try som of the directshow mpeg2 decoder decoders from here?
DVDauthorGUI Like: Dscaler MPEG Filters GPL MPEG2 Decoder Maybe there isn't a directshow mpeg2 decoder included in the win2000 install? Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Feb 18 10:47 | ||||||||||||||
| I've rewritten the exporter, so now works with temp files on the harddisk. This means much less memory usage and almost realtime previewing when it's only slides with transitions. Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.
Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Feb 21 19:01 | ||||||||||||||
| @ tin2tin
It's working pretty cool. I like the new look of you web page!! :D | ||||||||||||||
| Aleoink posted 2007 Feb 24 13:55 | ||||||||||||||
| I just installed DVD slideshow GUI 0.73 but I can't even try the preview, because when I load the pictures and press the "Preview" button all I see on mPlayer Classic is "ImageReader: error 'Could not open file' in DevIL library reading file C:\Programmi\DVD slideshow GUI\_temp_files\000000.ebmp (C:\Programmi\DVD slideshow GUI\DVDsGUItemp.avs, line25)". When I try to export in any format I get the same error message (of course "C:\Programmi" is Italian for "C:\Program Files"). I tried Version 0.72 and it works fine.
Is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance! Alessandro | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Feb 24 14:56 | ||||||||||||||
Hmmm bummer. Could you check for me, when mpc is running with that error open(Closing MPC will delete temp files), if there is an existing file at:
And the afterwards open in the folder where you got the program open "DVDsGUItemp.avs" in notepad and look at line 25, if the path is the same, as the path of that file? (The ebmp are temp files running in native avisynth format which gives smaller memory usage when previewing large digital camera photos and also gives a more accurate preview framerate with slides and transitions(not with animation og avi's) Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Aleoink posted 2007 Feb 25 04:19 | ||||||||||||||
Hello tin2tin
When MPC is running, the directory C:\Programmi\DVD slideshow GUI\_temp_files exists, but it is empty. At line 20 of "DVDsGUItemp.avs" I found: "imgout=ImageSource("_temp_files\%06d.ebmp", 0,37, rate)" Could it be a problem if the directory is "C:\Programmi\DVD slideshow GUI\_temp_files" and not "C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\_temp_files"? Hope it helps. Alessandro | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Feb 25 06:34 | ||||||||||||||
| DVDsGUI works on the two computers I've tried to install it on. Both XP. I'm using two different command line tools to render the temp files. Avsutil and hshell(I haven't coded them). In this test I've taken out hshell(which makes the dos pop up invisible). Give it a try.
http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/DVDsGUI073test.exe Edit: [Run this from the main directory of your installed dvdsgui] And let me know... | ||||||||||||||
| Joebar posted 2007 Feb 28 17:56 | ||||||||||||||
| Getting the same exact error as Aleoink.
My _temp_files folder gets created but is empty while MPC classic is running with the error up. I've tried the test exe also with same results. | ||||||||||||||
| jam1 posted 2007 Mar 02 08:14 | ||||||||||||||
| Getting the same exact error as Aleoink and Joebar. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Mar 02 08:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry guys my daytime job is eating my time up. I can't reproduce the error, so I'm a bit puzzeled. For now I'll take the 0.73 off the site.
Previously I've been working one week solid on gfd export of a dvd with menus, one videoslideshow, chapters and one-by-one photos with navigation. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Joebar posted 2007 Mar 02 10:05 | ||||||||||||||
| I dont get the error in 0.72 | ||||||||||||||
| um3k posted 2007 Mar 14 15:56 | ||||||||||||||
| A couple (very important, IMO) suggestions:
Each image should be resized no more than one time, in order to preserve maximum quality (and save time, I would imagine). This can be accomplished by calculating the final image size before resizing. (see below for more information) Also, the resizing should account for non-square pixel aspect ratios. This is currently done in a very poor way (resize twice) for 16:9 NTSC, and not done at all for 4:3 NTSC. I don't know about PAL, I have not tried it. Here is a table showing the pixel aspect ratios of various DVD aspect ratios and resolutions (from http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.5 ):
If you have any questions (as you probably will), I will try my best to answer them. I am not an expert on the matter, but I have enough understanding of the subject to possibly be of some service. -um3k | ||||||||||||||
| um3k posted 2007 Mar 14 18:23 | ||||||||||||||
| As an example of a possible way to fix both problems at once (only dealing with 16:9 NTSC here):
Change the SafeW/SafeH definitions from this:
to this*:
And change SafebH/SafebW definitions to this**:
Remove the resize at the end of the image resize block, as well as the redundant ConverttoYV12 while we're at it. i.e. from this:
to this:
Finally, and quite importantly, change the return line of the SafeSize function from this:
to this***:
* 396 and 704 were used because they are the true dimensions of a 16:9 NTSC DVD when converted to square pixels. The 0.95 number defines the safe area, I used a percentage rather than a specific pixel number as a matter of personal preference. 380 and 684 are 400 and 720 with the same relative adjustments. ** I am not concerned with preserving the correct aspect ratio of the background, I simply want to fill the frame. *** The else case resize serves the purpose of correcting the aspect ratio of images smaller than the safe width/height. 0.825 is the reciprocal of 40/33, the pixel aspect ratio of 16:9 NTSC DVD video. (x/0.825) could be replaced with (x*1.212121) or (x*40/33), they all mean the same (or nearly the same) thing. This all only applies to images, as that is the only thing I am concerned with. It could probably be extended to video, and I know for a fact it can be modified to work for 4:3 NTSC as well as PAL, if you have the right numbers (which happen to be in my previous post). Of course, you're the programmer, so it's up to you how to implement this information in your (most excellent) software. Hope this helps! -um3k | ||||||||||||||
| um3k posted 2007 Mar 14 20:43 | ||||||||||||||
| Also, in the function "AddBack," the overlay should have "pc_range" set to true in order to keep from clipping the whites and blacks of the images.
In addition, in order to be technically accurate (for making DVDs), I believe you need to use matrix="rec709" when you convert to YV12. -um3k | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Mar 15 12:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Here a first release candidate of a version with a very advanced Gui for dvdauthor/muxman export. Uploaded for testing:
EDIT: removed @ um3k - I don't live in a NTSC country - so thank you very much for this helpful info. | ||||||||||||||
| um3k posted 2007 Mar 15 15:38 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm glad to help.
However, it appears I was incorrect about one thing. :oops: For encoding with QuEnc, the color matrix for YV12 conversion should indeed be Rec.601, i. e. the default setting. At least, that's what this post seems to indicate. In my defense, this does not apply to all encoders; some do use Rec.709. I am confident that my other statements are correct, though. -um3k | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Mar 16 07:50 | ||||||||||||||
Here's a new release candidate 2. With a bugfix and Gui for dvdauthor export.
This was a very hard one to track down - because it worked fine on my computer, but now I think it is solved. Please test the new export to (.gfd) Gui for DVDauthor feature. It also supports export of videos, so this is a nice way to make a video(musicvideos/trailers) compilation. DVD slideshow GUI now can export a .gfd file with: - Main menu(animated) with button access to: - A rendered video slideshow with music, texts and chapterpoints. - Chaptermenus with tumbnail-buttons to the video slideshow. - One photo/video pr. submenu, so you can flip through photos/videos with your remote. Just by exporting your slideshow in .gfd format and loading it up in Gui for dvdauthor, author it and burn it - you will have a pro-looking slideshow DVD with menus: 
Get it here: http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/DVDsGUI074RC2.exe ... and let me know how it works for you. Haven't looked on the ntsc 16:9 thing yet. Atm only 98 slides are supported, but more will come, when I get the time for that. Tin2tin [EDIT: IF YOU READ THIS AFTER YOU DOWNLOADED 0.74 RC2 THEN YOU GOT A VERSION WITH A LOT OF THE EXPORTER FUNCTIONS WHERE BROKEN :shock: - NOW I THINK I'VE FIXED THAT AND UPLOADED UNDER THE SAME NAME - I'M SORRY :oops: ] | ||||||||||||||
| Aleoink posted 2007 Mar 17 15:00 | ||||||||||||||
Now it works fine, and the problem I reported seems resolved, but when I test the "export" feature to Gui for dvdauthor, when I try to create the DVD it gives me the error: "Buttons outside allowed area or minimum distance not matched!" (I tried to create the DVD without changing anything in the .gfd file) If I can add a whish, I would like to create a DVD with more than one slideshow. Could it be possible? Thank you Tin2tin and sorry if I sometimes "disappear", but I have time only in the weekends and not in all of them! Alessandro | ||||||||||||||
| iant posted 2007 Mar 17 17:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
Just started using this little beastie. Found it to be very nice but with a few minor complaints. (Always something to whinge about.... :D ) When you do a rotation, you're always presented with 'Are you sure you want to whatever?' Can you please add to your list of 'Things To Do' an option to turn those darn confirmations off? Also, this seems to be the only place where you can do a quick preview of the image but, when you click on 'Cancel' you're presented with another confirmation box which effectively says "I won't do anything...okay?". That one I'd like to turn off too! :-x Last one, for now anyway. When you do a 'select all' and change the default transition, or any other default value, it removes all rotations that you have painstakingly done during the last half hour so you get to go back and do them again. :evil: Maybe it might be an idea to have each value in this section set as a dual checkbox for each default with the second option being 'Leave As Is' so that value would not be changed. Another suggestion here is a 'default' value for the 'subtitle' box where it can be set to that value and it will display the image title. Well, that's enough complaining for now. Have fun and hope to see a couple of these ideas make it into a good project. Regards, Ian | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Mar 18 06:01 | ||||||||||||||
I need more details - again it doesn't make this error on my computer. Can you locate what button is too close to what button(by deleting them one by one)? It has almost taken me 3 weeks to get this to (almost) work. The massive XML scripts used by GFD are driving me nuts, and only by the help of Borax I stayed sane. So more slideshows will be too much for me :shock: @ um3k & iant I'll have to look into that later. I wanted to get the gfd export finished, but I'll be away for the next two weeks, so it will not happen tomorrow.... Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 Mar 18 09:58 | ||||||||||||||
Several slideshows on one DVD: You can. Just output the slideshows as m2v and add them into GfD. Of cause you would have to create the menus yourself... | ||||||||||||||
| Aleoink posted 2007 Mar 18 10:35 | ||||||||||||||
Unfortunately not. I tried, but can't understand what the real problem is! :(
OK, it was just a wish! :) Thank you again for all! Alessandro | ||||||||||||||
| Aleoink posted 2007 Mar 23 18:04 | ||||||||||||||
I put a ZIPped GfD file here: http://www.motosardi.org/file_transfer/polverosi.zip Thank you for all! :) Alessandro | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 Mar 25 10:25 | ||||||||||||||
| I have the same problem as tin2tin... The error doesn't occur on my computer. Could you at least locate the menu? Just open the menu in GfD (start with MainMenu, continue with titleset1 menu an so on). After loading each menu just click on preview. If there are buttons to close, it will also be mentioned in the preview.
My theory for this problem are different used fonts or different screen resolutions (<> 96 dpi) | ||||||||||||||
| Aleoink posted 2007 Mar 29 09:01 | ||||||||||||||
Thx for the hint! :) The problem occurs on TS1SubMenu1 (where the thumbnails are) but I can't see any text there and my screen resolution is 96 dpi. Alessandro | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 Mar 30 01:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Ok. Can you load the TS1SubMenu1 and post a screenshot?
Maybe I should create a 'special' version which does not just tell you that buttons are to close, but also which buttons are to close... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Mar 30 03:50 | ||||||||||||||
| I forgot to mention that wingdings2 and wingdings3 are used in the menus. If they aren't installed on your computer allready - then get them here:
http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9325517/_fonts/wingdings_test.htm [...but they are used in all menus and not just the album menus.] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Apr 01 12:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Here's a version which (hopefully), will allow you to export more than 98 images to GFD(actually up to 98*96=9408!!).
Run it from the main folder of an installed version of DSG: EDIT:[removed] Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2007 Apr 02 12:32 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI looks incredible! It seems to be the software I need to make a slideshow dvd with photos and videos, and to import the comments of my photos into subtitles. Great!
I have a little question: I encoded my avi videos to mp2 and m2v files with TMPGEnc. Can I import them with DSG, or does it only import avi files ? Thank you | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2007 Apr 02 16:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello,
I tried to import 1012 jpeg pictures to a new DSG project, but there was an exception (see attached). Is there a limit of pictures that can be included in the list ? Thx  | ||||||||||||||
| Aleoink posted 2007 Apr 03 15:37 | ||||||||||||||
Now everything works!!!! :) Alessandro | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Apr 03 21:04 | ||||||||||||||
| Here's a version with a max of 3000 slides. More than 3000 slides will give you an error. If there is an quenc/mpc error before it actually renders(the status bar moving)/previews(plays), then you will need more add more (virtual) ram.
Run it from the main folder of an installed version of dvd slideshow gui and remember to install the above mentioned fonts. [0.74 is out. Get it from the link below.] | ||||||||||||||
| Tomr77 posted 2007 Apr 13 23:13 | ||||||||||||||
| Really awesome program couple of questions though.
I'm trying to set all my transistions to Random without changing all of my subtitles. Is there a way to do this? Is there a way to set Random in the preset import settings? Thanks, Tom | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2007 Apr 15 04:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
I think that I have found a bug: I have 10 slides (videos and photos). When I export to mpg, I don't see the last two photos. In fact, all is ok in videos, subtitles, transitions, etc, but the photos are not the good ones, and it seems that the first frames of videos are inserted as photos... I looked at the generated avs, and that's because you script the ebmp files sequentially for the photos, but don't look if the ebmp to insert is really a photo. In my project, ebmp0001 and ebmp0002 are generated for the first two videos, ebmp0003 for the first photo, etc... Videos are well scripted, but when the first photo is scripted, ebmp001 is taken to script the photo, instead of ebmp003. Hope you understand the problem... Your tool is great! Thank you, Olivier [/img]  | ||||||||||||||
| fpcx posted 2007 Apr 18 10:27 | ||||||||||||||
| Great software, thank you very much, tin2tin.
Unfortunately I've met a problem---I hope it isn't a bug. After successfully creating a simple PAL 720x576 4:3 movie using some 720x576 input images (using a 1:1 mapping, after setting Safe X and Safe Y to zero), I've tried to create a PAL 720x576 16:9 movie feeding DsG with 1024x576 images. Unfortunately the resulting movie contains black bars at the left and the right sides. I've verified that DsG stretched the input images more than I expected, comparing one of the exported bunch of images with a resized one created with ImageMagick (convert -geometry 720x576! ...). (I attach a reduced version of the negated difference of the images to show that they are resized differently---ideally this image should be white completely.) After reading um3k's posts I tried saving an AVS file, changing some parameters, trying to get the right stretch, but to no avail---I'm a newbie on all this. Any hint/idea? Thanks again for your great work, Frederic  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Apr 24 10:18 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm sorry I don't have much time at the moment, feature film I'm deeply involved in is going to premiere here in Denmark in a few days and it is eating up all my time.
But thanks for you bugrapports ect. If you want to read up on the film, here's a link: blog Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| träskmannen posted 2007 Apr 24 14:11 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin, thanks for a great app! I started playing with it last week and found it to be both intuitive and powerful. I have unfortunately run into some problems similar to those of olivier: the slide shown after an AVI is not the photo is is supposed to be but a still of the first frame of the AVI.
I will try to explain. The project looked like this: Slide 1 => Movie => Slide 2 => Slide 3 => Slide 4. First attempt gave this result: Slide 1 => Movie => Slide of first frame of Movie => Slide 3 Slide 2 was replaced by something I did not want and the last slide was not shown. After playing around a bit with different settings etc I finally uninstalled the program, deleted the program folder, reinstalled it and got the following behaviour: Slide 1 => Movie => Slide of first frame of Movie => Slide 2 => Slide 3 Now a slide of the first frame of the movie was inserted instead of replacing one slide. The last one was not shown. If I try it on my old computer it works fine (both computers using the latest version of DVD slideshow GUI, both using XP SP2). Frustrating... I wish I could find out what the difference is between the two systems, that should be the key to the issue. So far no luck. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Apr 25 16:17 | ||||||||||||||
| It clearly sounds like a bug when using avi's. I'm sorry I don't know when I'll have time to look into that. (But I will when I get the time)
Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Fendervr posted 2007 Apr 29 18:09 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin and all,
I am using your really good software DVD slideshow GUI. It was quite easy to learn to use its features, for me, after a little practice. I export my project as .gfd to create DVDs with GUIforDVDAuthor. In GFD 1.02 however when I try to Create DVD I obtain always the same error of Aleoink: "Buttons outside allowed area or minimum distance not matched!". I follow your advise and re-installed the font wingdings (I had already them, however), but nothing changed. To help your analysis, I hope, when I load the .gfd project I noticed the following - window title switchs to "GUI for Muxman" - clicking on the menu item View - Menu Preview for TS1SubMenu1 (where are thumbnails) I get the error mentioned, clicking the OK button the screen is displayed but the three buttons over the thumbnails to navigate screens, disappeared. I am sorry not to be able to use this functionality at all. Any advise? Aleoink have you resolved only installing wingdings fonts? Many thanks in advance for your help and app Fendervr | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 Apr 30 05:34 | ||||||||||||||
| In the menu preview of GfD you can click on 'Copy', then use any image processing program (irfanview, gimp or even windows paint) and paste the image there. Then save it and post it here. The problem seems to be font related, but I have no idea, why it causes different sizes on different computers. Maybe it would be better if tin2tin could replace the text-buttons (using wingdings) with graphical buttons (using gifmasks)... | ||||||||||||||
| Fendervr posted 2007 May 01 02:53 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Borax, here you have screens. I tried to put them in one image, because I don't know how to post more than one image. What you requested are screen 1 and 2. Please tell me if it is OK.
I made some other trials: - I tried to delete the Navigation links. I deleted all of them but the "right arrows" (there wasn't the remove button in Edit properties) and trying to delete it from the keyboard (Del) I obtain the message "The Back-Button cannot be deleted!". Morever I deleted one thumbnails each two others to have more space between buttons, but the problem remain (screen 3 and 4) - I deleted all from the Titleset menu, but the Back-Button, and the problem obviously disappeared :(. The strange is that in the Menu Preview now you can see the right arrow (screen 5). My screen resolution is 1024 x 768 and 96 dpi. Hope this can help. Claudio  | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 May 02 02:23 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks, but the images are hardly readable. Let's try it anther way. Put the images together with the project file (.gfd) in a zip archive and either post it here or send it by email. | ||||||||||||||
| Fendervr posted 2007 May 03 03:11 | ||||||||||||||
| Here is the zip file. The explanation of the screens are in my Previous post.
Just to recap: I have DVD Slideshow GUI version 0.74, GUI for dvdauthor (GFD) versione 1.02. To view my slideshow I use WinDVD 4. To encode I have QUEnc 0.61 I don't know if this can help, but I notice that opening with notepad the .gfd file , it mentions GFDVERSION=1.01. Thanks Hi gfd%20screens.zip | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 May 03 08:32 | ||||||||||||||
| As it seems, the problem is still related to the used font (but I don't understand it yet...). Could you try to use another font for the left, menu, right buttons (like Arial, just for test purposes)?
Again I can use the saved project without any errors on my computer. Concerning Screen-2.jpg: No there should not be anything in the left upper corner. I think GfD (or Visual Basic itself) cannot really handle the font correctly and puts all the buttons (left, menu, right) on exactly this location, and therefore they are overlapping.  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 05 06:16 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Borax and Fendervr: Thanks Borax for trying to hunt this buttons distance error down! I really don't understand it. But it's a good idear to try to change the font and the position of the navigation buttons (left, main, right), and after that try to move them away from each other.
@ träskmannen and olivier: Thank for finding this bug. I think I've solved it now. @ fpcx and um3k: This appears to be somehow related - messing around with the ratio somehow scares me. And I must admit I don't understand it at the moment. (btw. the safearea is set by the user and not automatically by the program). But I'll have to look into that on a rainy day. Here's a version with: - Random added as an option under import presets. - Avi order bugfix. - GFD export avi with no sound bugfix. EDIT: Look further down for the latest version! | ||||||||||||||
| träskmannen posted 2007 May 05 09:19 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin - I just tested version 0.74b, using the same project as last time. The problem is indeed solved - everything works the way it should now!
Thanks again for a great program! | ||||||||||||||
| Fendervr posted 2007 May 05 09:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Borax and Tin2tin,
I changed the font in Arial but nothing changed (see attachment Using Arial 1 and 2). The only way to avoid the error was to change the button property "Normal Visible" to "unchecked", also if with two buttons you can receive the message "Fixed size to small" For this I made this following trial and I was able to avoid the error: I created a new slideshow with only three images for easiness: Trial3gfd.gfd I opened it in GFD and the error was there as always. I made then these manual changes: - TitleSet1Menu set the property Normal Visible to "checked" for all the buttons below the three thumbnails and set the property "Normal Visible" to "unchecked" for the buttons: left, menu and right. - TitleSet2Menu TS2SubMenu1, TS2SubMenu2 and TS2SubMenu3 set the property "Normal Visible" to "unchecked" for the buttons: left, menu and right. In this way I have no error and pressing Create DVD all apparently goes well. Attached is the new project Trial3gfd_amended.gfd Unfortunately when I press the Show DVD button, WINDVD started, but I didn't see anything in it. I attached the Batch Run Log file. I don't know why this behaviour and what that setting exactly do, but I hope that this can help to understand. Obviously it is not practical to change manually this settings for slideshows with a lot of images. Thanks again for your help. Fendervr trials%20050507.zip | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 05 11:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay now we know that the error is connected to the navigation buttons, if making them invisible solves the error message, I guess...?
Is it just changing the font that makes the buttons end up in the corner, or how/when do they end up in that corner? Have you tried to just move the buttons away from each and away from the safe area on all the menus with navigation buttons?
Why don't you use 0.71? At what bitrate are you encoding(I see underflows)? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 05 13:16 | ||||||||||||||
| @ träskmannen: Great!
@ fpcx: Give this one a try and let me know if this solves your problem(with 1024x576 images in 16:9)? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 07 09:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Version 0.75
New features: - Overlay animation on previous slide. - Import avisynth scripts. - Random added as an option under import presets. - Double click with left mouse button to watch avi of avs files. Bug fixes: - Avi causing missing slides fixed. - GFD export avi with no sound fixed. - 16:9 ratio fixed. Import avisynth(.avs) files: This way you can let DsG import pretty much anything Avisynth can import(ex. mpeg, quicktime, raw ect.) just by writing a script. Check out Avisynth! You can even import avisynth scripts saved by DsG. Overlay of animations: By selecting the new 'overlay.avs' transition and animating the following slide you can animate on top of the previous slide. Take a look in the flv player. Falling slides - flash 
Quite nice for a dvd slideshow menu, don't you think? :) | ||||||||||||||
| Fendervr posted 2007 May 07 17:36 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Tin2tin, thanks for your new version.
After a lot of trials in which it was very difficult for me to understand some behaviours of the software in my system, I believe to have found what happen. I opened the .gfd file with Notepad and I noticed this parameters: "FontSize=14,25". I tried to change it to "FontSize=14.25" (with a dot for the decimals) and I was able to create a DVD without the error, even with fonts Wingdings 2 and 3 :) . Could it has been a country setting on my system that impacted the creation? Unfortunately then I couldn't see my slideshow because I had this message in the log file: "Buffer underflow 3 times". :( I will try to change something to solve this other issue. Any Advise? Last info: you are right now I use QuEnc 0.72. In my installation of GFD was initially present QuEnc 0.61. Thanks again. Fendervr | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 07 23:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Great you found it. The funny thing is that if I change the ',' with '.' the buttons comes out oversized, so it might be at difference it the country settings? The solution is to get rid of the ,25 or .25 part. It works fine without it I think. It's easily done.
Concerning the underflows try to higher your bitrate in quenc - if you lowered it from it's presets. | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 May 08 01:28 | ||||||||||||||
| It is a difference in the windows internal country settings (you cannot change it AFAIK). As windows 'rounds' the font sizes itself (I don't know why... in GfD, I only use integer font sizes from the windows standard font dialog, but windows adds some decimals itself!?), there should be no problem if you save the gfd file from DVDslideshowGUI with integer font sizes.
@Fendervr: Great analysis! Concerning the Buffer underflow error: This is a problem if the bitrate of the encoded video (from either the menus or the 'real' videos) gets to high. There are several possibilities to test: - Try another encoder (if you use QuEnc ATM, try HC and vice versa) - Reduce the bitrate of the concerned menus and/or videos - Reduce the GOP size of the concerned menus and/or videos (can be done by editing the hc.ini file) - Enable Blur If you need further help, post the log file (then I can at least see where the error is located) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 08 05:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, here's a version with that (.gfd export) bug fixed and now only the changed values in the slide settings menu will have an effect on the selected slides.
Exe only - which needs to be run from the main folder of a fully installed version 0.75: here! The full download at the DsG homepage is also with the latest bugfixes. | ||||||||||||||
| gust0208 posted 2007 May 08 10:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Wow, this program is amazing! I can't wait to try out the GFD export to see how that works. Kudos on a great program, I have used a number of other options and this is definitely one of the best.
Cheers, Tom | ||||||||||||||
| gust0208 posted 2007 May 08 14:33 | ||||||||||||||
| I am still having no luck getting the buttons to appear in GFD when using the *.gfd export option from DVDSlideshow GUI. It seems to load everything else ok, but the buttons are miniscule in GFD and I am unable to get them larger. Frustrating to be so close but so stuck!
Any ideas or tips on when the snag is? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 08 14:48 | ||||||||||||||
| Does GFD author the dvd correctly(without errors)?
Does the generated DVD play in MPC? Does the navigation buttons look any different than in Borax' screenshot above(two arrows and a circle in the middle)? Are wingdings 2+3 installed on your computer? (Some of the buttons are not meant to be visible) | ||||||||||||||
| gust0208 posted 2007 May 08 14:59 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks for the quick reply. 1) Yes, the generated DVD plays fine in MPC and is generated without errors 2) In Win XP, I have opened the font option in Control Panel and do have Windings 2 and 3 installed - but if I double click the file to preview the font, I don't see the usual font demonstration. 3) Yes, the navigation does look different. If I double-click and edit the button, it lists the font as "Arial" and the font size as 2. Any ideas on why DVDSlideshow GUI is using Arial for the button font and not Wingdings? I have attached a screenshot demonstrating #3 that I am seeing on my computer. Cheers and thanks for the help, Tom  | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 May 08 16:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Within the shown dialog, can you manually select the Windings font?
If yes, change the font (and the size) manually, save the project with another name and compare the .gfd files for any differences. | ||||||||||||||
| yuckons posted 2007 May 09 09:01 | ||||||||||||||
| I was using .75 and it looks like a pretty good tool. I noticed a few things. I started with 107 images, tried some cut and pastes and moving some images up and down and noticed I lost pictures and had alot of duplicates. Then a few minutes later I had every picture the same. I was only moving and cutting one photo at a time. | ||||||||||||||
| gust0208 posted 2007 May 09 13:53 | ||||||||||||||
I can change the font manually and will check the font to Wingdings. I browsed the documentation for GFD, but could not find a way to change the font for all buttons in the project? I will try changing one and see what the file says. Thanks for the ongoing help! | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 May 12 06:11 | ||||||||||||||
| ..but could not find a way to change the font for all buttons in the project
That's not possible. It would require a recalculation of all button sizes and an additional overlapping check. But let's check the differences in the gfd files if just one is changed. | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2007 May 29 09:41 | ||||||||||||||
| I like DVD Slideshow GUI :)
There are some bugs I think.. - Work on multiple slides 1) When "Okay" is pressed all the slide settings gets the same (Text, transition, etc.) 2) When some of slide settings (Text, transition, etc.) changed and "Close" is pressed (Top right X) the noanimation slide' s settings changes. 3) When all slides are selected and animation button clicked from the toolbar and "Cancel" button or "Close" is pressed (Top right X) all slides changes to animation yes.. - Saving to AVS 1) Import of background image (bname) only sets the name of the file not the path! 2) Min(), Max() functions are dublicated My suggestions :!: 1) When multiple slides settings are changing allow only one setting to be changed. 2) Import images and videos must be more user friendly 3) Will go on 8) | ||||||||||||||
| GrayStrickland posted 2007 May 29 11:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Is 450 jpgs too much?
Would it help to resize the jpgs to optimum size before trying to import them? If so, to what resolution? I pointed the latest version at about 450 jpgs ranging in size from 3 to 8 megapixels. It took about 20 minutes to import them all. Once imported, it takes forever to work with them. What I want is a slideshow of these images with NO menu. I want it to run as soon as I load the dvd in the player and I want it to run FOREVER until I eject the disk. Finally, I want no subtitles. Is there a way to set your preferences for transition time, exposition time, transition method, subtitles (none), etc. before you import so that you can just import, then save to an ISO immediately? | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 May 30 07:47 | ||||||||||||||
| Resizing helps a lot... I usually do it with IrfanView. The 'optimal' resolution depends on the format (PAL/NTSC), aspect ratio (of the pictures itself and target for the DVD) and the canvas size (border around the images to avoid loss of content due to overscan and keeping aspect ratio of the images correct). The final image will have 720x576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC) in each case. You can resize and set up a suitable canvas with IrfanView in batch mode. If you don't want a menu, just export the result as m2v video file and use muxman to create a dvd structure from it. To have it autorepeating, use pgcedit afterwards, or author the m2v with GfD with a 'no menus' setting and check the manual for a guide to do the autorepeating:
http://download.videohelp.com/gfd/Help/AutorepeatingDVD.html | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 May 30 10:44 | ||||||||||||||
| DVDslideshowGUI is very promising! It is loaded with capability. There may be a v.75 bug as yuckons reported above with sorting/adding/moving slides. My workaround is arrange files before importing. My show = 170 .JPGs, 800x600. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 May 31 04:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Most of the issues mentioned above have I tried to fix and uploaded under the same name at The DsG homepage.
However the ratio and animation vs. cancel stuff haven't I worked on. Please let me know if the .gfd buttons still are causing troubles(I made a new font(DSGdings.ttf) as a way to fix it.) The import values added to new slides/videos can be changed under Presets. When making an iso/dvd(without GFD) the videofile is allready looped. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Jun 03 23:24 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks Tin2tin, your upload refresh of 0.75 (>14Mb) improved cut/paste issue. Avi/avs enhancements and .gfd menus are untested here so far. The ability to do "Ken Burns"-style animation is fabulous for my needs. I encountered the following minor errata:
1. Save project dialog works but button is mislabelled "Open" 2. Right click Slide settings will not OK typed-in values for Exposition 3. Position Y input is not played correctly when portrait slides have an animation preview. Landscape slides preview OK. | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jun 05 16:03 | ||||||||||||||
| Hallo tin2tin,
This is a very nice software, for quick building a picture dvd. It would be nice if i can use the usercomment or the imagediscription out of the exif-data as subtitle. Is it possible? What do you think? | ||||||||||||||
| ronkleim posted 2007 Jun 09 22:08 | ||||||||||||||
| How do I add AC3 audio as background music to the main menu with DVD Author GUI ? | ||||||||||||||
| borax posted 2007 Jun 12 07:16 | ||||||||||||||
| If you talk about GUI for dvdauthor, not DVD Author GUI (that's a different program), you can right click on the menu background, select menu properties and add a suitable audio file in the menu background dialog. See also: http://download.videohelp.com/gfd/Help/MenuBackgroundDialog.html | ||||||||||||||
| ronkleim posted 2007 Jun 12 17:25 | ||||||||||||||
| :D
That worked! THANKS! | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jun 22 13:41 | ||||||||||||||
| Does anyone know how to reduce flicker in DVD GUI Slideshow? The flicker shows in parts of the photos and the text I have inserted. | ||||||||||||||
| ronkleim posted 2007 Jun 22 13:53 | ||||||||||||||
| Well, the sound worked in one of my DVD players atleast.
Any advice on making the DVD more universaly playable? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jun 22 15:44 | ||||||||||||||
| @ rufus23
A slight blur will fix it. I must have left those lines of code out of this version(for testing speed), and forgotten to put them back in. For now just use this advice here: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic299671.html#1511326 | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jun 24 08:44 | ||||||||||||||
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| tin2tin posted 2007 Jun 24 11:56 | ||||||||||||||
| Well I realised that it actually is adding blur to the mpg's, but not when saving avs - that I'll fix asap.
But I've set the value as low as (0.1,0.1), could you do me a favour and test how low you can go in the blur values and get rid of the jitter - is 0.2,0.2 too low? Personally I think 1.1 is too much...? I'll try to upload the fix asap I get the value from you - so you don't have to think about a workaround. | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jun 24 19:56 | ||||||||||||||
| I agree. Use (0.1,01) and if someone needs to add more blur, let them change it through the avs file.
I love the DVD GUI Slideshow application. I think it is better than Videowave in Easy Media Creator 9. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jun 25 09:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Well mpg's was rendered with (0.1,0.1) so now I changed it to (0.2,0.2), let me know if this looks okay. And I've added the blur to the avs file.
Download GUI only(paste this file into your DSG folder and overwrite the old): http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/DVDslideshowGUI075_gui_only.exe The full install at the homepage has been replaced with the current version(under the same name) | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jun 25 20:06 | ||||||||||||||
| I tried the new file but it still showed flicker around the perimeter of photos and small text. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jun 26 02:15 | ||||||||||||||
| When rendering a mpg or previewing? Or when?
(No blur added when previewing - it will eat up too much speed) Thanks for testing it. The blur value on mpg's are (0.2,0.2) | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jun 27 20:25 | ||||||||||||||
| The flickering occurs only on my TV with the DVD player after it is rendered and the DVD is burned (with blur of .2). I think it would make sense to keep the blur setting at .2 in the software. I can export to an AVS file, change the blur to 1.1 and save, import the AVS into DVD GUI Slideshow, and encode to an ISO file.
As an alternative, can I add blur(1.1,1.1) command line under the encode button in Options, Presets menu and directly import to an ISO file from a *.dsg file? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jun 29 12:47 | ||||||||||||||
| The upcoming version of DVD slideshow GUI will let you add extremely cool visual effects to your slideshows. Here's some eye candy: :P
http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/all.html In short it will let you add effects on slides and the whole slideshow, through avisynth scripting you can add any effect you like. This way you can make very nice motionmenu-backgrounds if you like... At the moment I've added support for Free Frame plugins, Photoshop color curves, and different filters from MSU. (This way you can add all the blur you need... :D ) BTW. avisynth 2.5.8 doesn't play transitions as fast as the 2.5.7 version...(I'm going one version back in the installer for now) Have fun and enjoy! Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| träskmannen posted 2007 Jun 29 13:40 | ||||||||||||||
| That looks really interesting. Any idea when you plan to release the upcoming version? I'm looking forward to trying it! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jun 29 16:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay now it's up! DVD slideshow GUI 0.76RC1 with the cool new effect filter usage!!!
I hope you guys will get inspired and come up with some great new avisynth effect filters you want to share here. Have a look at what some of the included effects can do: Newspaper+EffectStrips 
Animation+Overlay_Clouds 
MultiStripsH 
Bloom+OldCinema 
BleachBypass+Toon 
Videos here. Download it here! Have fun and enjoy!!! Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jul 01 08:09 | ||||||||||||||
| I downloaded version .76. I keep getting the the following error when I try to open the dvdslideshowgui.exe which won't let me open the application
File error-error reading from file fgets() in file "C:\program files\dvd slideshow gui\dvdslideshowgui.exe line 8897: > postslibox.setselection (postslibox.findstring(f(gets(handle))) I have a HP Pavilion laptop with intel dual core 3.6 ghz with 1gb ram running windows vista. I did not have this problem using dsg version .75. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 01 13:23 | ||||||||||||||
| Hmm sorry about this - sounds like the new.ini wasn't properly overwritten, when installing and it is missing the new stuff added to this version. Did you uninstall the previous version before installing the new one?
Try this one: run it from the main folder of an installed 0.76 RC1(it will not work with previous versions!) [edit: there is a newer version out...] If this doesn't work delete the file called new.ini and run the program. Please let me know if some of this works for you(I don't get you error - but it doesn't have anything to do with with your computer - just the installed files). | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 01 19:08 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay new release candidate(RC2) is up!
Version 0.76 RC2 Bugs fixed: - Ini aka fgets error fixed. - Portrait animation error fixed. - Animation buttons fixed. - Startup statusbar fixed. Thare are some new files in the download, so unfortunately you'll have to dl the whole thing... sorry! Link at my signature.... | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jul 02 04:14 | ||||||||||||||
| Hallo tin2tin,
I asked about using the usercomment or imagediscription out of the exif-data as subtitle instead of using the filename. Of course switchable. Is it possible in the future? What do you think? schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 02 06:52 | ||||||||||||||
| Well guess it could be done with jhead.
Which can extract this stuff:
How much of this info do you think would be useful in a slideshow? | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jul 02 07:32 | ||||||||||||||
| RC2 definitely fixed the fgets error. I was looking at the tutorials and they said that subtitles (text) are able to be moved by right clicking in the options, presets menu on the photo subtitle text box. I tried it and I am unable to move the subtitles by right clicking and moving the text box. The text box is at the bottom of the photo and I can't move it. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 02 07:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Moving the texts are not possible anymore, that was before I turned the texts into actual subtitles.
What tutorial was that(I guess that I'll have to fix that)? Did the new effects work for you? | ||||||||||||||
| rufus23 posted 2007 Jul 02 08:28 | ||||||||||||||
| The new effects worked fine for me. The link for the tuturial that shows text can be moved is at http://www.geocities.com/naked3d/DVDsGUIvtr.htm | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jul 02 11:10 | ||||||||||||||
| If you want to explain the photo and no technics about camerasettings the comment and date/time is useful.
It would be nice to use different output formats for the Date/Time-flag: only date, date and time, locale date formats 01.07.2007, Jul 01 2007 etc. I think all other flags are important for the photographer but not for the people I show the photos on TV. | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2007 Jul 03 04:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Effects over images or slideshow option is a great addition. 8)
But, - Status bar says xxx.avs loading... please wait! Why is it loading Posteffects? Start up takes too long.. - I could not use Filmstrip.avs. It makes full of very small pictures..! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 03 06:39 | ||||||||||||||
| @ schmicki
In my eyes the only info jhead produces which might be interesting to add is the Date/time thing. I dunno if I'll add this. DsG is also limited to one line of subtitle. I think there are several free softwares which let you look at an photo and see the data. @ alevon Thanks. Well is is not actually loading the plugins "into" DsG, but it has to make sure that the plugins avalible can produce valid video-clips before adding them as options. But maybe there are too many? Or maybe it could add all avs files in the Posteffects folder at startup and then check if the effect was okay, when an effect is selected... that would speed up the start up of the gui. I should have added post_only to the name of Filmstrip.avs. Try to add it to the post(slideshow) option instead of image. :) | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2007 Jul 03 09:38 | ||||||||||||||
| I tried the post effect, nothing changed..
Pls. look at the attached image..  | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jul 03 09:49 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
After taken the photos from camera to PC, I use the IPTC-Data for keywords and discriptions (only for pictures it is useful, for example: names of buildings etc.) Now I've found your great tool. But I have to write my discription manually in the subpicture field. I think an automatic is much better than writing the text again. If I'm the only person that use this feature - no problem, I'll try to convert the discription in the filename, and than use it within DsG. thank you for your help schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 03 19:08 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay RC3 is up.
[edit: get the latest at the homepage] 0.76 RC3 New Features: - Exif import - Faster startup Bugs fixed: - Import of mp3 was broken. - Animation preset window update. @ schmicki As you can see have I added the values offered by jhead. I really hope you find it useful! Now if you what to do me a favour, how about writing on how to use this data inside and outside for DVDsGUI, so I can use it in the help files(I dislike to write docs...) :) @ alevon Here filmstrip(a Free Frame plugin - I didn't make it) fills the screen from the upper left conor, when the screen is full it starts all over. Like the entire slideshow layed out as one by one tumbnails. | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2007 Jul 04 06:41 | ||||||||||||||
| When I use pre effect (toon) with animation;
Transition : Overlay.avs Animation : Yes Pre Effect : MSU_Toon.avs The animated slide is seen as a black blank animation.. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 04 07:04 | ||||||||||||||
| The MSU plugins turn black if they are called more than once in a script... | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jul 04 07:15 | ||||||||||||||
| OK, I've tested the exif-section. :)
There is a Problem I must explain, but it is to long for the forum I think. I'll pm you. schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2007 Jul 04 09:16 | ||||||||||||||
| As I said before, I liked the effects over images or slideshow option..
But I want it to be more optional.. :idea: As we can set the pre effects from the Presets window, it would be great if we can set it for every slide. The setting from the Presets window can be default, and the slides pre effect can also be set. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 04 11:12 | ||||||||||||||
| @ alevon
If you want to work on every single slide I think you should use a Photoshop-like(Paint.Net is free) program to make your slides look like you want them. Another option with more slides is in DsG you can export to avs, which can be loaded into DsG again so you can have a series of slides with different effect for each avs(type in '0' in safeX and safeY - no border). Here's an example: Mixed Effects all done in DsG. The third option is that you export slides with effect as bmp and then import them into DsG again. @ schmicki Well this program is only a GUI and I can only add stuff produced by a command line tool, as far as I can see Jhead doesn't export those comments you're talking about. Let me know if you come across a cl with that as an export option. (I spend 10 hours on the Jhead import - and I have a strong feeling that this is a total overkill for a slideshow proggy). If you have a photo with comments into it a you can get jhead to read it - could you send me that photo? | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jul 04 14:21 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I think I've found the tool you need, look here: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ With this I have made a txt-file with the same name as the jpg including all exif or only the usercomment or what you want. I think with this it's easier. Let me know what you think. schmicki imgp4712n.jpg | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 04 15:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Exiftool is quite big(and slow) compared to Jhead. Just as a test I ran your photo through Jhead and it does show: "comment : Kommentar", so now I've added it to the gui. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 04 17:11 | ||||||||||||||
| RC4 is up with bugfixes... and avisynth 2.5.8. Link at signature... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 05 02:52 | ||||||||||||||
| Check out this collection of free frame plugins which can be added to DsG through the templatefreeframe.avs in the 'PostEffects folder:
http://freeframe.sourceforge.net/gallery.html @ alevon Take a look at filmstrip at this gallery and see if it does the same thing for you. | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jul 05 07:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
you did a great job. Thank You very very much. :D :D It works fine. Most of the errors I wrote you are with blank fields. Today all photos out of cameras has filled fields. The usercomment flag works fantastic. A great tool with quick and great support. schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2007 Jul 06 00:50 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks for suggesting Paint.net. I liked it.. By the way, can we use Shape3D.dll for animation? (Like we use zoom.dll) That would be magnificent.. :idea:
Yes, it is the same. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 06 01:50 | ||||||||||||||
| What is Shape3D.dll? | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2007 Jul 06 02:43 | ||||||||||||||
http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=5271&sid=c9 ... 2bf089d98f When I was examining Paint.NET, I looked at the plugins and found that Shape3D.dll.. It is a cool plugin that has 3D functionalities. I played with it, has nice effect capabilities.. :D  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 06 04:16 | ||||||||||||||
| Lol looks nice. Paint.Net plugins can't be accessed through avisynth... :(
DVD slideshow GUI uses www.avisynth.org for all manipulation of video and audio. Access to ex. free frame plugins is gained through the Free Frame plugin for avisynth here: http://avisynth.org/warpenterprises/. If you want to add more effects to DsG here's how it can be done: From DVD slideshow GUI/Posteffects folder you can open 'Template_Freeframe.avs' in Notepad or great IDE for avisynth: AvsP.
This is the avisynth script which adds a selectable Free Frame effect to DVD slideshow GUI called 'Template_Freeframe.avs'. Change the code to this:
And save it in the Posteffects folder with the .avs extension. Now open Mplayerc.exe(Media player classic) from the DVD slideshow GUI folder and drag and drop your new .avs file in Media player classic. It should now open a colorbar manipulated by by the free frame plugin. And also (and very important) open an interface to play around with the values of the plugin. In the bottom of that interface there is the avisynth command which will produce the current effect. ex.
Copy/paste this into the first script and remove this line:
And make sure that there is a '#' before 'colorbars()'. Save it into Posteffects folder as .avs start up DsG and you will have a new effect to choose... You can find more Free Frame plugins here: http://freeframe.sourceforge.net/downloads.html Just add the dll's to the Posteffects folder and do as above, but change the 'PeteHalfTone.dll' into whatever plugin name you want to try. If you come up with something nice, please share... :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 07 13:39 | ||||||||||||||
| I've tried to get rid of the popups of the dos windows when importing images, could you help me to test if this runs on your computer? Just place this file in the main folder of the latest version of an installed DVD slideshow GUI - double click it - and see if it is possible to load images with some of the exif data(import more than filename as subtitle):
[EDIT: REMOVED - IT WAS JUST A TEST :) ] | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2007 Jul 08 16:01 | ||||||||||||||
| I've tested it.
It only shows the data from the jheadinfo.txt in all pictures. All pictures show the same subtitle. If I manualy change the data in the jheadinfo.txt, this data would be displayed the next time on all loaded images. The Time DSG spent to load the images with exifdata is the same as 0.76RC4 and there is no DOS window, but only the last data in the jheadinfo.txt is displayed. schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 10 06:11 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks, I was affraid that it wouldn't work properly on all computers... now I know. Gotta figure something else out, or live with the pop-ups.
I have removed the link above. I'm thinking about writing some tutorials on how to make and add your own transitions, import scripts and effects, so people can start expanding and sharing these things. What do you think? Is there allready enough stuff like that in the download? Or whats the next thing you would like to see in DVD slideshow GUI? | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jul 10 18:16 | ||||||||||||||
| I would like to see transparent images implimented so I can use pictures like this:
picture%202.png | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 11 05:35 | ||||||||||||||
It can allready be done now.
Change the urls to your locations in notepad(or AvsP - better), and save as .avs. Then before importing the avs into DsG type-in your safeX and safeY to '0'. Now you'll have a png with overlayed your background as a slide. As you can see, you'll have to save your alpha image according to the size of the background to get it placed centered. | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jul 11 09:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Using it this way prevents me from using animation and I loose sound for this clip. | ||||||||||||||
| n4p1 posted 2007 Jul 15 08:38 | ||||||||||||||
I have a problem with DVD slideshow GUI... When I add 30 photos, change background, and export to ac3, m2v... i have that warning:
when i open m2v file in mpc its ok, everything works fine but when i try create dvd menu in GUI for dvdauthor i have warning in that m2v file and program dosent create dvd.. I have that error:
sorry for my bad english and thanks for help. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 15 12:28 | ||||||||||||||
| @ kjvsword
Try this one: (Run from installed DsG 0.76 main folder) Alpha in png as slide and as animation kept... I think... dunno if this is causeing any problems with other formats ect. Please test it. [edit: get the latest at the homepage] @ n4p1 Not sure what might cause this... try to export as .gfd and open that file in Gui for DVDauthor. Let me know if that works better for you... | ||||||||||||||
| n4p1 posted 2007 Jul 15 15:58 | ||||||||||||||
i find the solution... I lower the bitrate (i set to 7500) and its works but i have another problem, when I have more than 500 photos its some error, here are screens:
  
And program take more than 1,5gb ram :) but now I have "solution" for this too. I import 100 photos and create m2v file, then I import next 100 files, create secound m2v and etc... Now i have 15 m2v files and i must just join them ;). btw. sorry for offtopic but how to join 15 txt files with chapters? I mean, when I have that 15 m2v and want join them to one file, how to create chapters too. each m2v file have own chapters, ex: 1.m2v:
2.m2v:
[....] I hope you understand me :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 15 17:13 | ||||||||||||||
| You're lacking ram for that amount of slides. Try higher your virtual ram. The alternative is to export smaller parts of the slideshow and use something like Mediajoin to join it into one big file(link at the DSG homepage/links). There' is a limit of 100 chapters pr. video on a DVD, so if you got that many slides, I think you're better off by letting GFD autogenerate the chapter points for you.
Good to know about the bitrate... :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 16 02:20 | ||||||||||||||
| I've been playing around with some avisynth scripting and some new functions Wilbert has added to avisynth, so now it is almost possible to do crazy music video stuff like this(preview with MPC is not working though):
Crazy Tokyo Stuff - video The slideshow is manipulated by the volume of the music(as you hopefully can see). And here's a render of the testversion from above using png's with alpha(made in Paint.Net), animated and using the "overlay" transition. Alpha video | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 16 14:30 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI 0.76 official is out - check the homepage for more and download.
Version 0.76 New Features: - Effects over images or slideshow. Done through avisynth scripts, which allows you to use Photoshop color curve files AMP or values from CHA, Free Frame plugins and use Overlays ect. - Import PNG with Alpha - New Help files - Exif import - Sort after subtitles/exif - Faster startup Bugs fixed: - Import of mp3 was broken. - Animation preset window update. - Ini aka fgets error. - Portrait animation error. - Animation buttons. - Startup statusbar. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jul 16 18:33 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
Didn't know what you meant by "Alpha in png as slide". So I just downloaded the latest DSG and tried loading the png and it now works. Thanks man. This program is getting better all the time. It's awesome!! | ||||||||||||||
| n4p1 posted 2007 Jul 18 06:34 | ||||||||||||||
| A little sugestion...
If i have more than 100 photos, prog create txt file with chapters but you say that dvd can have only 99, so please implement function that create only 99 chapters.. | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jul 18 10:08 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
I created a slideshow with 14 slides. The first 2 were png. All had animation. The video rendered great in mpg. But the sound had a high pitch squeal with it. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 18 12:27 | ||||||||||||||
| @ n4p1 - You're right there is chapter bug when exporting more than 100 (iso, dvd folders, chapterpoints), which causes failure in the dvdauthoring. I'm looking into that.
[Edit: I think it's fixed now(and some other bugs too). Run the GUI from the main folder of an installed DsG 0.76: [EDIT: get the latest at the DSG homepage]. This version has been added to the full version download at the homepage.] @ kjvsword - Music works fine here - could you upload the music which is causing the noise? [Edit: I've checked mp3, wav and avi and all works fine here...] | ||||||||||||||
| n4p1 posted 2007 Jul 19 07:45 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you for fix, I will try this in next week, now its time for holidays :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 20 13:26 | ||||||||||||||
| I got sick of the underruns with Quenc, so now I've spend the day on letting Dsg use HCenc(by Hank315) as the encoder of mpgs ect. and SoundOut(by Sh0dan) for sound.
So now there is a new version for you: 0.77RC2 More reliable: - HCenc(Hank315) instead of QuEnc encoder. - SoundOut(Sh0dan) New Features: - GFD Menu brush up - Drive In theme - Polaroid effect Bug fix:- Background in Presets fix. - Avi and avs bug in gfd export. Link at signature... | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 21 21:34 | ||||||||||||||
| I just discovered your DVD slideshow GUI app a couple of days ago and have been playing with version(s) .76, 77RC1 and 77RC2. Its pretty easy and has some slick features without a lot of baggage, I did a couple of nice test shows to DVD using .76 and GUI for DVDauthor.
However for some reason, the .77RC2 version with HC encoder support hangs at the start of HC encoding when trying to export a slide show, the HC encoder pop-up appears but never loads anything. The .77RC2 preview works ok. Has anyone else reported an HC hang? :-x p.s. I use HC a lot with DVD Rebuilder, its a great encoder. Feature request....How about an option to loop audio to fill out sound for a slide show of whatever duration. Keep up the good work... :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 22 10:57 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks :)
What are you trying to export(mpg, mv2, iso...)? Does this happen with all export formats? In HCenc what does the info, input, output lines say? Is SoundOut.dll and libsndfile-1.dll in the main DVD slideshow GUI folder? It works fine here - so if you can help me with there questions, I hope we can locate the bug. | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 22 11:45 | ||||||||||||||
| Ok, it appears that HC is not hanging, its AVS converting file popup that is not ending properly.
If I cancel the the AVS popup then HC will run ok for remaing segments.. The DLLs you mentioned are in lib. trying to attach popup. JPG  | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 22 11:47 | ||||||||||||||
the missing are is behind AVS popup
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| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 22 11:51 | ||||||||||||||
| It's the SoundOut avisynth plugin which exports sound, before HCenc will export video. I haven't had it hanging after encoding, but it will take 5 sec before closing and sometimes it opens twice before HCenc can encode. But the wait and the running twice will hopefully be adressed: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120025&highlight=soundout&page=5
I've just added the looping of sound. It will be in the next version. | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 22 12:42 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for the quick answer and looking forward to addition of sound looping. :D
Is there a work around of sound out problem, say even with no sound? :? I have several other photo slideshow to DVD programs dating back to VCDeasy, but yours seems to be the least time consuming one (my time) that I've tried. If you want to dress up/tweak the output, there are options for that as well. I expect to use it (along with DVDauthor) a lot for the MANY old jpegs stored on my hard drive(s). Very nine job.. :P | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 22 13:07 | ||||||||||||||
Okay, let's test if SoundOut works properly on your computer. Copy this code into notepad and save it with an .avs fileextension. (ex. "test.avs") into the DVD slideshow GUI main folder, where SoundOut.dll is located.
Then drag this file into Media Player Classic(mplayerc.exe) in the same folder. Does the popup render and close down all right(automatic)? Is there a file in the main folder now called 'SoundOutWorks.ac3' which works? If everything is all right try adding another soundfile to your slideshow mp3/wav and see if it is the same. [I noticed that the .gfd export from DSG will crash if settings are opened in GFD 1.03 and 1.04. Borax has added new functions, which are not included in the DSG export yet. However the exports makes fine dvds, as long as settings aren't opened in GFD] NB some of the post effects can be quite time consuming before HCenc starts actually encoding(MSU filters on the entire slideshow are very heavy). Does HCenc hang with no effects too? | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 22 20:10 | ||||||||||||||
The AVS converting file popup hangs, but MPC opens and loops on the color bar pattern from AVIA or whatever. I don''t hear any sound at all.
I have no effects or even animations in HC/AVS hang sample. Export hangs in mpeg or GFD mode. As I said earlier, preview sample works with sound and video as expected. :roll: | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 23 01:33 | ||||||||||||||
Sounds like it is SoundOut which is causing the problem. I didn't code SoundOut and can't reproduce your error here, so I'm a bit clueless. Maybe we should try to figure out if it is connected to the commandline... In that script above if you add '#' infront the SoundOut command, save, drop on MPC, you should hear a tone, if not please let me know. Then remove '#' again and change the SoundOut(output = "ac3", filename="SoundOutWorks.ac3", autoclose = true, overwritefile="Yes", showprogress=true, cbrrate = 384) to SoundOut(), save and drop on MPC, now there should be a gui, try to save as ac3, if you succed we know that this is not a codec thing, else try to install ffshow and make sure that ac3 is enabled. If that doesn't work I think we should give Sh0dan(who coded SoundOut) your specs, and let him know about this bug. | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 23 12:40 | ||||||||||||||
MPC shows playing but no sound and has message the script return code was not a video clip.
The GUI loads as expected and MPC plays the test tone. When you try to save an AC3 the converting file hangs... The Soundout.ac3 file is being created in MyDocuments. So my MPC plays ac3 files ok. The Soundout GUI loads and executes. Soundout is just not closing properly.???  | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 23 12:48 | ||||||||||||||
| My system is orginally HP 450n, 3Mhz P4 w/HT, 1GB ram, Win XP w/SP2, 2 160Gb drives ( 1SATA, 1PATA), many software players, codecs and large assortment of video related software.
My ffshow is somewhat dated, perhaps I could update it... I have shut down a lot of non-essential(?) windows Services(?) could one of those be the problem? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 24 03:24 | ||||||||||||||
| I've in the doom9 thread link above I've asked Sh0dan about your hanging ac3 export. I hope he has some solution for you.
When using the script and the soundout gui, does it also hang with other formats? (wav ect.?) Anyone else with the same problem? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 24 06:23 | ||||||||||||||
| Sh0dans reply: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1027165#post1027165
[edit: the latest DVD slideshow GUI pagage has the latest SoundOut included and several bugfixes. Get 0.77RC3 at the homepage] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 24 14:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Sh0dan has fixed the problems with SoundOut, just replace it with the one in DsG main folder and let me know it this solves the problem.
He writes:
Get it here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=923625#post923625 | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 24 15:45 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for your help.
Wwill let you know if new version runs ok after I try it... :) | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 24 16:02 | ||||||||||||||
| Good News, I just downloaded RC3 and it exported and played mpeg correctly...
:D :D :D Great Job :) I assume there is a way to change the HC set up parameters perhaps in an INI file? | ||||||||||||||
| TJU posted 2007 Jul 24 18:29 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello DVD slideshow GUI forum members.
I am fairly new to this program and authoring DVDs in general, so I apologize ahead of time if this question is stupid. I would like to create a slideshow that uses the DVD player's remote to advance pictures instead of programming a fixed duration. Is this possible using DVD slideshow GUI? Thanks! | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 24 23:26 | ||||||||||||||
| RC3 is running very well on my system...thanks to all.
This rocking DVD slide show GUI is easy to use. I have another feature request, Us old people can't easily see subtle differances in the small thumnails as shown in the 20 up thumbnails sorting list. I would like the choice of current list and an alternate view of the sorting list with larger thumbnails and less info. Say three columns of 10 thumbnails with only the slide name stcked over the subtitle if possible. The main thing is to have larger thumbnails for identification in the sorting process. If two or three up is impractical programming wise, then just an option of current list with fewer lines (10?) and larger thumbnails. Keep up the great Work... The path is pretty much redundant in the sorting process, but is useful info in the big picture (current list). | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 25 01:22 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Oldeman - Great that is solved and thanks for your report and hunting it down. Concerning the tumbnails it will be too time consuming for me to change the overall look of the sorting list, but I can change the size of the thumbnails, how much larger do you want them? If the thumbnails becomes larger that would mean more space pr. slide and less lines.
Yes, the HC.ini is the ini file used in HCenc, and you can change the settings there, let me know if you come up with some improvements. @ TJU - Yes it it possible if you export as .gfd and open this file in GUI for DVDauthor - then you will get a dvd with menus, one slideshow video, chaptermenus for the slideshow video and one photo at a time(with remote). If you just want the one photo at a time you can delete the other menus and stuff in GUI for DVDauthor. See this post. Before you export to anything for usage on tv select the anti_flicker_minor effect(Under 'Presets') for the slideshow(not image), else you might get a flicker on your TV. | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 25 14:05 | ||||||||||||||
I am running a 19"LCD with 1280x1024 res and the thumbs are quite small especially when there are only modest changes from photo to photo. I have not tried only resolutions and that might fix my perceived problem...however... Suggest another alternative, In sorting list, the currently selected photo is highlighted: 1) maybe an automatic larger popup of the selected photo, OR 2) Pressing right button pops up slide settings screen ..have the slide screen popup include a larger photo window of the selected photo.. the only problem I see with this is when mutiple/all photos are selected in which case the first/last or dummy all blank screen could be shown. :wink: | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 27 04:25 | ||||||||||||||
| The Presets window (key: F7) opens the first selected image.
It is not too much trouble to make the all images in sorting list, but how much bigger do you want them? Thanks for your thoughts. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Jul 27 10:23 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
I seen the clip for the drive in theme. I thought that that would be great as a motion menu. What must I do to get the same effect for my pictures? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 27 11:37 | ||||||||||||||
| Under Presets select a 16:9 format.
Open background: Posteffects/Drivein.png Set the safe area to be slightely bigger than the pink area. Load a black background instead of drivein.png, when you got the safe area all set. Under Effects/Pre-process select: AMP_Drivein.avs - this is a photoshop colorcurve which will mimic the colors and the blacklevel of the drive in image. Under Effects/Post-process select Overlay_Drivein_16_9. And that's it... Png files with alpha can be made with Paint.Net. Overlay_Drivein_16_9.avs can be opened in notepad, the name of the png flies changd and saved under a different name(but with .avs ending) in the posteffects folder and the you got a new overlay. | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Jul 28 11:06 | ||||||||||||||
| Troubles in paradise. While DVDSlideshowGUI handles still photos
superbly, there are audio problems exporting shows with AVI clips. When I import a NTSC DV AVI file with the following stucture into DsG version 0.75, 0.76 or version 0.77rc3 and export to DVD folder I get audio skew in the final result. The delay is not at first noticeable, then gradually gets much worse. I will upload a chart file showing the steps I took to eliminate audio skew error in a DVD show with mixed stills and video clips. Video stream Frame size, fps (µs per frame) 720x480, 29.970 fps (33367 µs) Length: 77651 frames (43:10.95) Decompressor: MainConcept DV Codec 2.4.16 Number of key frames: 77651 Min/avg/max/total key frame size: 120000/120000/120000 (9099727K) Min/avg/max/total delta frame size: (no delta frames) Data rate: 28771 kbps (0.02% overhead) Audio stream Sampling rate: 32000Hz Channels: 2 (Stereo) Sample precision: 16-bit Compression: PCM (Uncompressed) Layout: 77638 chunks (0.50s preload) Length: 82910561 samples (43:10.95) Min/avg/max/total frame size: 60/4271/64000 (323870K) Data rate: 1024 kbps (0.56% overhead) In v0.77rc3, MPC plays imported DV AVI clips OK if I click on them, but if I try to do a Preview I get this video error (audio is OK): Media Player Classic could not render some of the pins in the graph, you may not have the needed codecs or filters installed on the system. The following pin(s) failed to find a connectable filter: C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\DVDsGUItemp.avs::Avisynth video #1 Media Type 0: -------------------------- Video: YV12 720x480 29.97fps AM_MEDIA_TYPE: majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_YV12 {32315659-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A} bFixedSizeSamples: 1 bTemporalCompression: 0 lSampleSize: 518400 cbFormat: 88 I'm not sure my DV AVI file is best encoded deinterlaced/zigzag, but I don't see how that is easily changed by the user in HcEnc.  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 28 13:33 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 new free frame effects. Download here. Unzip and add to the 'Posteffects folder'. Restart DSG. And do crazy stuff like this! - Kaleidascope.avs. Included are also: AsciiArtRes.avs, Ball.avs, ColourTwister.avs, ColourWrap.avs, Dogme95.avs, Fisheye.avs, RadialBlur.avs, TVPixel.avs, Vectorize.avs.
@ mystery194 That is a mystery to me too - the video is loaded in avisynth script the same way all the times you are refering to(with avisource). MPC can be somewhat unstable at times. NTSC video loads fine here and exports with the sound in sync. Maybe it's a codec thing(are you using ffdshow?), maybe it's the function which is used to load the videoclip into avisynth. You could try to look into other ways to load video/audio in avisynth script(ex. the new ffmpegsource/sox ect. check out doom9.org) and make DSG load your scripted clip(.avs), or save as .avs from DSG and change the avisource commando to some other avisynth video loading plugin. :? | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Jul 29 01:40 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
The codec I used was MainConcept DV Codec 2.4.16, not ffdshow. The issue of video-audio delays has some resonance in this forum, but I see AleksandrIgna's questions have gone without reply! Knowledge in this area is scarce indeed. Doom9 is hopping with creative program ideas. Now to find one which can address A/V synch drift in DVDSlideshowGUI: FFmpegSource - This ivtc.org plugin should support decoding of all ffmpeg supported video formats with frame accurate seeking in avi, mkv and mp4... http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127037 Sox is a general purpose sound converter/player/recorder http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Sox Audio Effect Filters v1.1 beta This plugin will allow you to run SOX effects within AviSynth http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104792 Lengthy interlaced DV AVIs are awkward to handle. I think most DSG users are thrilled if their short digital camera AVIs can be added to slideshows with stills, and I think DSG does that OK. Perhaps I go too far with a 43 minute AVI. When faced with the audio skew behavior of DSG, I tried to derive elementary stream video with Aleksandr Ignatov's Cam Video Tool 4 DVD Flick, but alas GUIforDVDauthor refused CVT4DF files. The current version of DVDFlick is now friendlier to interlaced video. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Jul 29 04:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Well, I can't solve a problem I can't reproduce... :|
Let's find out if your problem is avisynth related: Make an avs script in notepad:
or
and save as .avs. Use Quenc to encode this .avs file to a mpg(with sound) and see if the sound is in sync all the way. If it isn't in sync, check out your avisynth docs for alternative methods/plugins to import video/audio. If it is in sync try to import this script into DSG as avs. Export it and see if you still get your clip out of sync from DSG. Where is AleksandrIgna question? If you want to deinterlace your video clip, check out doom9 to find the best way to do that in avisynth script on your avi file and import as .avs into DSG, so your clip is deinterlaced before it's processed in DSG(because DSG will rescale your clip and deinterlacing will be impossible to do afterwards). There are 2 ways to change the settings for HCenc: 1. Under Presets/HcEncoder button you can type in your command line options. Check out HCenc docs to find out what the options are. or 2. Open 'HC.ini* in notepad and change the settings according to the HCenc docs.(Don't change HC_fast.ini!) | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2007 Jul 30 14:30 | ||||||||||||||
I've been away for a few days. The Jpeg size used for the F7 is fine... However, there is risk in used the preset sceen as it effects everything in the show. If you could append or just display the F7 jpeg image along with the slide setting popup, I thinjk that would be a pleasing and useful addition to your program. So, if you right click to add subtitles to a slide, you would see the exact enlarged Jpeg image that you would be adding the subtitle text to. Clarity is good. If you were increasing the size of the sorting list images, I think that roughly twice the size would be necessary to get good image identification, (at least on my system (19"lcd 1280x1024)).. On the other hand, its usefull to see lots of images to show relative position of the selected slide in the set. I view the F7 as a useful (but not slick) workaround for the preceived image size problem. Otherwise, I am quit impressed with the ease of use and lack of keystrokes requied to creat slideshows with your program....Good Job :) | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Jul 31 03:05 | ||||||||||||||
Truer words were never spoken. Sourcing a 43 minute .avs file directly into stand-alone QuEnc encodes without audio skews to MPEG2/AC3. As stated by tin2tin in 2004, QuEnc expects YV12 colorspace format:
I am testing a theory that any length difference between the slideshow and accompanying .wav audio will carry through in additional .AVI/.avs content in the form of an audio skew when the project is exported from DSG. Apparently the show duration DSG reports before export can vary by as much as 2 seconds from the duration that Media Player Classic reports after export. | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Aug 05 08:48 | ||||||||||||||
| Apologies for this bump that breaches etiquette so badly. My hard drive has been working overtime for tin2tin on the the issue of audio skew in avi's imported via avs into his excellent program DVDSlideshowGUI. First I eliminated confounding effect of my stills+WAVaudio show and concentrated on avi handling of DVDsGUI version 0.75c only.
Short avi's show little or no problem. I created 5000-10000 frame avi's of a metronome from my Canon digital camera and if audio skew was there it wasn't detectable. My import script contains critically required filters. Without an audio resample DVDsGUI errors out:
Then I focused on just the longer avi's, 30000 to 70000 frames, and the effect of their sequence during export to DVD folders. I found my suspect 43 minute avi stayed in audio sync if I made it the first in the sequence. When I exported a show of two long Sony DV avi's and swapped the order, a gradual drift of audio delay would develop in the second avi only. I used avs import of these avi's and tried one audio resample filter:
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| tin2tin posted 2007 Aug 05 13:31 | ||||||||||||||
| Maybe the out of sync thing with very long clips might be caused by this: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1030168#post1030168
I can't remember if + or ++ are used for adding avi clips together in the script. I don't have the time to check it right now. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Aug 07 03:35 | ||||||||||||||
| @ mystery194
I've tried to do a quick find&replace of +/++. But if I use an avs as slide as the 1. slide I get an unwanted sound before the 2. slide. I can't see any reason in the script for this strange sound execpt of the ++ usage, however using ++ might solve your out-of-sync-issue with very-long-ntsc-avi-clips. Run it from the main folder of an installed DSG. http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/DVDsGUI_325_plus.exe(Gui only) | ||||||||||||||
| kresi_chip posted 2007 Aug 08 08:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
i sent to you a PM, can you pleas contact me? Thanks Kresi | ||||||||||||||
| ManncubDad posted 2007 Aug 13 07:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi all
I just installed DVD Slideshow GUI - great software ! I mostly want to use it to put together DVDs of holiday photos / videoclips. I have 2 questions: 1. The AVIs from my Canon IXUS 65 wont import. Do AVIs need to be a certain type? 2. I have some panoramic photos that have been created with AutoStitch, resulting in photos which are 5873x896 pixels. How do I make it so that these are displayed zoomed in and slowly panning left to right. I have tried the animation editor without much luck. The image is out of focus. Is there a preset to acheive this? Thanks in advance for any help. | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Aug 13 12:36 | ||||||||||||||
| @manncubdad
I succeeded importing a Canon AVI with an avs script (above) and a $US28 MJPG codec. My script is for NTSC. @tin2tin I ran a test of DVDsGUI_325_plus.exe in v0.77RC3 and I am attaching a JPG of what I think is going on with lengthy avs imports. Bear in mind this as a priority would be low compared to enlarging sorting list thumbnails! I looked at the v0.75c script DVDsGUItemp.avs and found:
So in that version I do not understand there was some internal 30fps. I calculate that if there is a fps conflict, the A/V delay on a 77000 frame NTSC AVI would gradually increase from imperceptible to a max of 2.57 seconds, which is the behavior I see in the second AVI only: {(1/30)-(1/29.97)}*77000=2.57.  | ||||||||||||||
| Qun Mang posted 2007 Aug 26 20:03 | ||||||||||||||
I apologize in advance if this is a known issue- I only read the last few pages- but there seems to be a problem sometimes where I set an animation for one slide, and it will put it on another slide as well. Taking it off the second slide would also remove it from the first. I took a look at a saved .dsg file in a text editor, and it would appear this bug comes from what I believe to be two slides given the same ID number:
I would guess this comes from adding additional pictures, whether in the same session or not (that is, closing DSG and rerunning it later) I do not know, and DSG not knowing where to pick up the numbering and so it starts over. Copying and pasting the slide with the duplicate ID then deleting the first seems to be a workaround, though I don't know if I would then have an issue with a different slide with a duplicate ID (I only animate a very few slides in my presentations) as I assume the new picture would likely have an ID that conflicts with another one. Another workaround that seemed to work was editing the ID numbers in the .dsg file with a text editor so no two were the same. Another bug I ran into once was when DSG would save the .dsg it would duplicate a few slides, then cut off that number of slides at the end. I haven't replicated this issue yet- though it may (probably not) have to do with using the same picture for multiple slides as two of the duplicated slides were such pictures. Once I reverted to an older save this problem seemed to go away. I am using the latest release candidate (RC3). | ||||||||||||||
| kjvsword posted 2007 Aug 30 21:27 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
When will the music effects be added to DSG? Music effects!(not added to DSG yet) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Sep 05 07:46 | ||||||||||||||
| @ kjvsword
Keep an eye on this thread: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=127530. When the correct dll is uploaded I'm looking forward to see some nice music (post)effects scripts from you guys :) . @ Qun Mang Sounds like I'll have to look into some of the more nightmarish parts of the script to try to locate the bug what you mention here. Sigh... @mystery194 I can't remember the reason for internally converting all NTSC stuff to 30 fps first and then later converting it back to 29.97. I've tried to change it, but that's causing a lot of other problems... | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Sep 10 12:56 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
It is not good about those eBay vultures (see appropriate thread). You have worked so hard on your creation! Regarding framerate: The avi framerate for NTSC video was addressed by v0.69 (2006.12.13) and there was an avi fps check in v0.71 (2006.12.20). I think that the 30 fps audio problem arose with either the animations or previewing feature. Despite fps checking and need for a 30 fps intermediate stage(?), I am puzzled why avs import of a 30.0 fps video avi clip (Canon digital camera, v0.75) didn't work until I used a framerate converting filter in the import script for NTSC (see posts above). Is the problem that one variable setting a/v frame rates globally would involve impractical transcoding overhead? Maybe this is just a hairy bug and should be moot but many people use cameras to shoot stills and short video clips. | ||||||||||||||
| gd posted 2007 Sep 11 14:44 | ||||||||||||||
| Re: WinXP using command line switches
DVD Slideshow GUI is great software! It will save me over 1 hour each day! I produce 500-600 Powerpoint slides each day. I convert these to JPG (could be BMP). I have been using Video Studio to create video slide show (a lot of time). Now I use DVD Slideshow (much less time). But, can you post instructions to execute using command line switches under WinXP. I have tried a batch file and a shortcut, but I just cannot get DVD Slideshow to read in an input file. The "-f" command line switch reports "function not supported." If I can do that, then I can create a new input file each day with a list of my slides and automate the whole process. Also, I can create the picture files at any resolution. So, do I need to use Henc if the files are already the correct resolution? Thank you for your excellent work. What a pleasure! (I am new to using forums, so I hope I have not broken any of the rules by posting my question here. If I have, I appologize.) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Sep 11 16:16 | ||||||||||||||
| @ gd
You can't access DVD slideshow GUI through commandline switch, that's why there is a "function not supported" pop up. Maybe I should write 'Command line switches not supported instead.
Well, DSG is actually more that anything a gui for Avisynth, what it does is to produce a .avs script which then is processed with various tools. In avisynth script you can scale the video as you like. Export as .avs, open in AvsP(or notepad)and check out the avisynth docs for diffeent ways to scale it and finally use HCenc if you want end up with a m2v file. Alternatively you can add a a .avs post filter which scales your slideshow into the size you want. Btw how many slides can you render from DSG in one go? @ mystery194 I can't solve the out of sync thing when using long NTSC video clips at the moment, sorry... I can't remember why it is the way it is, but changing it results in all kinds of bugs. The code is one big(you can easily say hairy-) mess :( .(I'm a filmdirector and not a coder(this is just sort of a hobby)) | ||||||||||||||
| gd posted 2007 Sep 12 01:03 | ||||||||||||||
| Wow! You replied fast!
I though I saw command line switches in some documentation like -f <filelist.txt> The last run was 586 Powerpoint slides (JPG) at 120 frames / 3 frames disolve --- great MPG video. Thank you again. | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Sep 12 15:45 | ||||||||||||||
| That is a lot of slides.
I have a minimal avs import script that should accept a short Canon movie clip for PAL TV into DVD slideshow GUI along with the still photos. I have no way of testing it, but got something similar working for NTSC (post above). Any flaw here and DsG will show errors. Canon avi is MJPG, a payware codec is probably needed. Picture quality is good in my tests with NTSC. Adapting from http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/AssumeFPS:
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| gd posted 2007 Sep 13 12:10 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin - sorry to bother you again
Could you please list the programs you call from DSG? If I could use scripts created with DSG and then call the programs from my Basic code, I could automate everything. The idea is to use DSG once each week to create a new Avisynth script for each of my PowerPoint slide exports. Then using my own Basic program, export the Powerpoint slides to JPG/BMP like I do now, and then call the programs used by DSG (like Avisynth) to automatically create my video. The final mpg video is very simple: it is 500-600 JPG/BMP slides shown for 4 seconds each with no transitions. I do include an mp3 audio file also. Thank you again. | ||||||||||||||
| mccm posted 2007 Sep 15 03:53 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi!
I have a weird problem... When I export my project with normal safeX / safeY settings everything works like a charm but when I try and save it with: Pal 4:3 safeX=1 safeY=1 HcEnc crashes on some of the pictures. The only way to get to 100% is to remove those images even though there is nothing wrong with them?! Does anyone know why this happen and why it doesn't when I use different settings? Even tried to resave the pictures it crashes on with Adobe but as I said ...nothing wrong there... :( | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Sep 17 15:31 | ||||||||||||||
| @gd
Use avisynth script to make your slideshow(AvsP as IDE). HCenc to render it to a m2v. And Muxman or GUI for dvdauthor to author the m2v file to a dvd. @mccm Can't reproduce your bug. What does MPC say when you preview that slideshow? What is the original size of those images? Maybe it's the powers of 2... (You can type in a '0' as value in safex/y). On exporting 5.1 audio from DSG: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic326127-120.html#1752538 I'm sorry I don't have much time to code these days. | ||||||||||||||
| mystery194 posted 2007 Sep 22 20:49 | ||||||||||||||
| A few details about avs-imported avi files, which some folk might have from their Canon PowerShot SD800-IS or similar digital camera. This camera will shoot either NTSC or PAL. I shoot NTSC, but what I actually get is 30fps, not the 29.97 that DsG requires. I said I can't test PAL video here in NTSC land. This is not true. I installed my $10-$28 payware mjpeg codec of choice and ran PAL tests on the avs script I previously posted. I found bugs, using GSpot, AvsP, MPC and VirtualDub.
Even a short AviSynth script can be challenging. For example, AVISource gave my Pentium4 system the infamous HC encoder closing error: Application Error - The instruction at "0x0ab62fa9" referenced memory at "0x0a444c80". The memory could not be "read". The solution was discussed at Doom9, use DirectShowSource instead. AvsP was very useful, but showed its limitations dealing with the powerful filter ConvertFPS. ConvertFPS can preserve a/v sync while dropping from 30fps to 25fps, but this can't be previewed by AvsP/MPC in real time. I checked converting of my non-interlaced Canon avi by opening my script with VirtualDub and then saving a huge direct stream YUY2 avi test file by frameserving. The Canon avi audio bitrate is too slow for SSRC to resample, which explains why SSRC-oriented DVDSlideshowGUI gives errors. The AviSynth filter ResampleAudio accepts a wider range of input bitrates to resample than the fussy, but higher quality, SSRC. Next I used DVDSlideshowGUI 0.77RC3 to create PAL DVD folders from my debugged import script and some .jpg files:
The DVD folders played at the right speed with good a/v sync in MPC, so to complete the round of testing I made an iso file from the DsG DVD folders with ImgBurn and checked a burned DVD on two cheap DVD players capable of playing PAL as NTSC. Looked good there too. Now I'm set to make DVDs of slideshows with avi clips for either NTSC or PAL countries! | ||||||||||||||
| markmarques posted 2007 Sep 29 09:19 | ||||||||||||||
| Software problem / Bug...
Error Line 7224 after apperaring HEnc window. gfdcftmp[i] = fgetshandle[i] or something at the end... Henc reports several errors but it passes to fast to see them. The problem I suppose is that I am trying to make a slideshow with lots of pictures. Is there any problem if the pictures are from diferent res ? Altough I did not get the any error with some 200 pics. If I increase it to 350 or so I simply crashes....:( I know it existed a limit (due to the number of chapters 99) ... But in the most recent ver it seems It were solved... Any idea what is happening ? | ||||||||||||||
| sanggarra posted 2007 Oct 04 02:50 | ||||||||||||||
| I am getting the exact same error with 333.
Error reading from file fgets() in file "C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\DVDslideshowGUI.exe", line 7224: > GFDChaptersTemp[i]=fgets(handle)'GFDchapters&","fgets(handle)'&"0" On clicking "OK", it ask if I want to exit and exit regardless of whether I choose Yes or No.
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| n4p1 posted 2007 Oct 08 11:52 | ||||||||||||||
DVD slideshow GUI version 0.77RC3 stops.... When I load few jpgs and export it to mpg, after some time HCenc dosent do anything:
Please help. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Oct 09 01:41 | ||||||||||||||
| I sorry I don't have the time to look deep into your problems(or work with DSG atm.). One suggestion is however to make sure that you have enough ram and harddiskspace (where DSG is located and where your exported files goes). DSG is saving temp bmp files to harddisk of all images(about 1.2 mb each) before rendering the avs file in HCenc in order to mimimize the ram usage. And resulting mpg files can also be quite big. (I don't know if HCenc checks if there is enough disk space left or it just pauses) | ||||||||||||||
| n4p1 posted 2007 Oct 10 14:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Hmm... i have 1Gb ram so i think is good..
disk space.. i have 6gb free but i will try install DSG on other hdd :) Thank you. ADDED: Its working now, DSG needed more hdd space :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Oct 11 08:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Good to know, thanks!
I suspect that sanggarra and markmarques are getting those errors because of lacking harddisk space for the temp bmp images - which then can't be saved - and therefore can't found, when rendering. Sanggarra and markmarques please report back if more hhd space solves your problem? If yes I'll have to try to get DSG to check better for needed hhd space before preview'ing/rendering. | ||||||||||||||
| racer-x posted 2007 Oct 25 16:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Any way you can create a new preset that preserves image size 1:1 @ 29.97 fps?
Lately, I like doing slideshows in Hi-def as in 1920 x 1080 and 1280 x 720. I prefere to save out as AVS script that I can later encode with x264 and/or VC-1. I pre-crop all images anyway, so resize is not a problem........ | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Oct 29 12:15 | ||||||||||||||
| I don't have the time to code these days. But you could try to export to avs and tinker with it and replace the temp image files used for rendering. | ||||||||||||||
| leungf posted 2007 Oct 30 08:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
I have used this to create a slide show using all the default settings. I find that on some DVD players it works fine (and on a PC) and on other DVD players the slide show gets stuck between the first picture and the second and doesn't progress at all. Is there a way round this so that it will play on any DVD player? Thanks Frank | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Oct 30 09:47 | ||||||||||||||
| what version are you using? The 0.77 RC3 with HCenc? - If not try it(QuEnc cause it) | ||||||||||||||
| newbie98 posted 2007 Oct 30 22:06 | ||||||||||||||
| Regarding the 'Could not open file' in DevIL, I had the same issue with a black 4-bit .bmp file. Once I converted it to 24-bit, the problem went away. Hopefully this helps. | ||||||||||||||
| leungf posted 2007 Nov 02 14:03 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
Ref my earlier post: "Hi, I have used this to create a slide show using all the default settings. I find that on some DVD players it works fine (and on a PC) and on other DVD players the slide show gets stuck between the first picture and the second and doesn't progress at all. Is there a way round this so that it will play on any DVD player? " I have checked and I am using 0.77 RC3. Do you please have any other ideas to try? Thanks Frank | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Nov 03 04:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Well if you're making the slideshow inside DSG it's Dvdauthor which does the authoring of the dvd files - I'm no expert on Dvdauthor - all I can say is that it been working for me on playing it on different standalones - alternatively try to export to .gfd and let GFD use Muxman to author the dvd and see if you get the same problem.
(BTW. there is a bug in DSG when exporting to .gfd in 16:9 with the number of possible album buttons) | ||||||||||||||
| Harry Cover posted 2007 Nov 13 04:58 | ||||||||||||||
| I have the same problem of n4p1 (posted 08 Oct) and mccm (posted 15 Sep). I'm using DVD slideshow GUI version 0.77RC3.
When I export my project (PAL, 4:3) with normal safeX / safeY settings everything works like a charm. But when I try and save it with safeX=1 safeY=1, HcEnc does anything after some time. I used diffferents settings : - safeX=1, safeY=1, stops at the frame 1978 over 2229 - safeX=5, safeY=5, stops at the frame 1978 over 2229 - safeX=10, safeY=10, works correctly - safeX=10, safeY=1, works correctly - safeX=6, safeY=1, works correctly - safeX=5, safeY=1, stops at the frame 1978 over 2229 In fact, if safeX > 5, works correctly If safeX <= 5, stops at the frame 1978 over 2229 I tried to change the number of files, but HcEnc stops at the same frame. Does anyone know why this happen and why it doesn't when I use default settings? Many Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Nov 13 08:14 | ||||||||||||||
| I've just rendered a pal slideshow with safeX/Y =1,1 with 32599 frames without any problems. HCenc doesn't do check for free space on harddisk, it will just freeze if there isn't enough. Are you sure that you got enough free diskspace?
(Btw. there is a new HCenc out over at www.doom9.org) | ||||||||||||||
| Harry Cover posted 2007 Nov 14 05:27 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
I have 21 GB of free memory on my hard disk and 1 GB of RAM Memory. Thanks for helping me. It is not a very big problem. I will try to do a defragmentation of my hard disk and I will keep you informed. I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and my OS is Windows 2K. May be a problem with my configuration? Thanks. Edit and suite: I did the defragmentation. Export fails at the same slide with safeX=safeY=1, but pass with safeX=6 and safeY=1. The problem occurs at the slide 12 over 60. When I put the slide 12 in the position 3 (for example), export pass on this slide but fails at the slide 25. When I suppress slide 12, export pass. It seems to be a problem with this slide but all the caracteristics of the slides of my slideshow are the same (but with 720x540 pixels)... I resized all the slides with XnView at 720x576 pixels. Export pass with safeX=safeY=1. All seems to be OK. But this don't explain why slide 12 passed with safeX=6 and failed with safeX=1 before. Many thanks tin2tin. The problem seems to be solved using XnView for resizing my slides. I have to do other experimentations to be sure. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Nov 14 08:02 | ||||||||||||||
| Just check all your hhd drives(where DsG is installed and where you're rendering to) for free space when HCenc is hanging. | ||||||||||||||
| Harry Cover posted 2007 Nov 14 08:19 | ||||||||||||||
| OK tin2tin, see above for my experimentations. Thanks a lot. | ||||||||||||||
| Harry Cover posted 2007 Nov 15 02:49 | ||||||||||||||
| @ tin2tin - Other experimentations:
Yesterday, I resized all the slides with XnView at 720x576 pixels. Export passed with safeX=safeY=1. All seemed to be OK. Then with XnView, I applied the filter "Enhance Detail" to the slides. Export failed with safeX=safeY=1 and passed with safeX=6 and safeY=1. Exactly the problem described in my post of 13 Nov, with the same values for safeX and safeY (pass if safeX>=6, fails if safeX<=5). The same set of slides pass without using the filter "Enhance Detail" and fail with this filter. I suggest that the encoder would have some difficulties to encode pictures with enhanced details and then don't stop but is blocked. Are you an idea? Thanks a lot. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Nov 15 03:14 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Harry Cover - That sounds really really wierd! I guess when previewing it everything looks okay? I have rendered a slideshow with images of that size you had problems with - but without any problems. The only thing I can think of is what I suggested above, because bigger images/more detail might produce a slightly bigger mpg file - and as I mentioned HCenc hangs when it runs out of free harddisk space(check all your drives for free space when HCenc is hanging).
Concerning the .gfd exported import problems - try to rename your test.gfd to test.xml and open it in a xml editor and see if opens that file okay on your (french?) computer. [Btw. I did not code Hcenc - and know only very little about it] | ||||||||||||||
| Harry Cover posted 2007 Nov 15 05:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Reply concerning the test.xml file here
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic339748-30.html#1775116 Thanks | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2007 Dec 06 22:04 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
I have made a DSG project with jpg and videos, all is ok. I save and close DSG. When I reload the project with DSG, I have the attached error message, I click 'Cancel' to continue. The final log writes a lot of lines like those: 22:19:16: No handler found for image type. 22:42:29: Couldn't add an image to the image list. I look in DSG: icons of images are displayed for videos, instead of the standard video icon. And the last images have no image icon. Finaly, the number of errors is equal to the number of videos... DVD slideshow GUI is always the best slideshow creator, great job! wxassertfailure.bmp | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Dec 08 17:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes, that sounds like a bug. I actually can't remember if I checked saving/loading of avi/avs in dsg files works. I will try to look into that when I get the time. | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2007 Dec 13 21:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
I wanted to save a DSG project to manipulate it by replacing blank subtitles by my photos descriptions (Exif description tag). Then reload the DSG project. As reloading the DSG project doesn't work, I decided to use your new feature, say importing "User comment". So I filled JPEG comment (and EXIF comment to be sure) in Exifer, and imported the photo with DSG, after having preset Subs as "User Comment". Subtitle is not imported, but it is always equal to "program (auto)". Do you know exactly which Exif tag has to be filled to import the user comment correctly in DSG ? Thanks! | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2007 Dec 13 22:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Ok, I succeeded to see the DOS prompt that is opened when DSG imports the photo, and it says "Nonfatal Error: Suspicious offset of first IFD value".
So I think that my photo is corrupted... if anyone knows a tool that can correct the photo and/or its Exif tags, please do it here... ;-) Thanks | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Dec 16 11:16 | ||||||||||||||
| New version out with optional overlap between slides:
Version 0.78 | ||||||||||||||
| Jackboot posted 2007 Dec 17 02:19 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin :D
I am trying to use your program but I get the following error message when I try to import images:
The only option is to select "ok" about 3 or 4 times for every picture that I am trying to import. Since I am trying to import some 2000 pictures for the disk this will not work :( The photos that I'm trying to import are images that I've scanned to .tiff format and are about 17MB each. Can you tell me what the problem is? :idea: Many thanks :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2007 Dec 17 03:08 | ||||||||||||||
That error is from wxbasic(the free programming language DSG is coded in)when loading tif/tiff, so there's nothing I can do to make it go away. Alternatively I could take tif/tiff out of the allowed import formats - but they'll render fine - though it's annoying with the errors. I would recommend you to use ex. http://www.irfanview.com/ to batch convert your images into ex. jpg and downscale them too. Unless you need a lot of zooming into the images. But 2000*17 MB will be to much for DSG to handle since everything will be loaded into the RAM when rendering... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 03 04:48 | ||||||||||||||
| Take a look at some of the new eye candy demos here!
Done with this new testpatch with a couple of bugfixes and new use of the 'Overlay' transition when using overlapping(negative) transition durations. Get it here: Outdated! Unzip the included files into an installed DVD slideshow GUI 0.78 mail folder and run the included exe from there. | ||||||||||||||
| träskmannen posted 2008 Jan 03 07:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Looks really good! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 03 09:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks! Just added a Magic Ball slideshow to the demos.
It's done by using the fisheye posteffect combined with an overlay png image with alphachannel. :D | ||||||||||||||
| adentro posted 2008 Jan 08 14:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
first of all I would like to express my deep thanks for this wonderfull piece of software that I have started using. I would like to ask you how can I preview all 160 transitions in an easy way so that I can choose the one that I want to apply for some images. I tried to think it over and over and found nothing. Thank you for your reply. | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2008 Jan 09 05:18 | ||||||||||||||
| When I use Overlay (with DVDsGUI_078a) it gives an error..
"I don't know what "imgout" means" | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 12 06:00 | ||||||||||||||
| @ adentro
There is no way to view all transitions in an easy way. However if you open the 'Transitions' folder you'll be able to see all the grayscale images used for different transitions(add new grayscale images to this folder. Restart DSG and you'll have a new transition). Also the TransAll.doc in the Transitions folder carries some info. The free coding language wxbasic doesn't support animated gif which would be needed in order to do what you're after. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 15 17:49 | ||||||||||||||
| @ alevon I think I've got it now: DVDsGUI_087b.zip - to be run from an installed v. 0.78.
Included are also some new transitions. Preview here. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 16 10:00 | ||||||||||||||
Well, now I've made a transition previewer - but as mentioned I can't get animated gif to work under the programming language. Download this and place the 3 files in the main folder of an installed DVD slideshow GUI and run the ViewTrans.exe. Now you'll see the dos promt pop up about 160 times... exporting a gif animation for each transition and placing it in a new folder. When it's finished you'll see a new file in your main folder: Transitions_Preview.html - open this in Explorer and you will be able to see all you current transitions for DSG. Here's the transitions I have at the moment: Transitions_Preview.html | ||||||||||||||
| träskmannen posted 2008 Jan 16 13:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Wow - thanks! That will make life easier for me. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 18 05:49 | ||||||||||||||
| Now I made a Post Effects previewer - be aware that some of the effects are only for the image and not for the entire animation.
Place the files from this ViewPostEffects.zip into the main folder of an installed DVD slideshow GUI and run the new exe. This will produce a html and gif animations. Open the html to watch the Post Effects. Here's what an example(with a bit of html editing): PostEff_Preview.html Btw. let me know if you encounter any bad bugs with this one: Test post. | ||||||||||||||
| adentro posted 2008 Jan 18 09:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
thank you very much for your effort with Transitions and PostEffects Preview. Very nice of you. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 21 10:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Here's a new Post Effect filter for you: Mirror. Get it here.
Unzip the files into the 'PostEffects' folder and restart DVD slideshow GUI. It will mirror the bottom part of the image like it was water or something like that. Take a look at the demo here! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 21 18:50 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm testing adding avi/avs as motion backgrounds - looks pretty cool - take a look here!
(The background is made by Mike Pan) | ||||||||||||||
| lechu789 posted 2008 Jan 27 06:42 | ||||||||||||||
| great software and effect
i've done some dvd slideshows with it unfortunately now i've new camera and want to do slideshows in resolutions above 720x576 for computer only, i prefer res 1280x1024 i've read previous topics about changing resolution in avs file but i've always got preset resolution 720x576, higher res is only when i put at the end of file LanczosResize(image,1280,1024) but i thnk it's bad idea to first shrink image and then stretch it my avs file - i've written in place of 570 or 576 number 1024 and in place of 718 or 720 number 1280 # Definitions: SafeH = 570 SafeW = 718 overimg=blankclip() SafeAviH = multifour(570) # resizing avis within width and height SafeAviW = multifour(718) SafebH = 576 # resizing background within width and height SafebW = 720 rate = 25 bname = LanczosResize(imagesource(bname,1,1,rate),SafeBW,safeBH) a = bname at = bname b = bname bt = bname Try { imgout=ImageSource("J:\proba2_temp_files\proba2%06d.ebmp", 0,2, rate) } Catch(err_msg) { imgout=blankclip(1,720,576, fps=25).converttoyv12() } SafeH = 576 SafeW = 720 PLEASE tell me what i've done wrong PS maybe in next version implement possibility to create own presets | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 27 09:01 | ||||||||||||||
| @lechu789
I don't think I'm going to add HD formats atm(going to stick to ordinary DVD formats for a while). However if you want to export and change values in avs scripts I think it should be possible to do what you're after. When slides are animated DSG is using the original images for the avs script(else they are downscaled to temp ebmp's for saving the memory usage when later running the avs script), which means that you would have to animate all slides... Just select all slides, open animation, add a key at the begining and at the end of the animation slide(you don't have to move the image) and okay it. Then you export as avs and do a 'find & replace'(in ex. AvsP) of all the 720/576 values and also all the current safe area values for the entre script. This way I think it should be possible to do a slideshow in the size you're after and then manually render in HCenc or what you prefer. | ||||||||||||||
| lechu789 posted 2008 Jan 28 03:01 | ||||||||||||||
| thanks a lot for your info
tried it all as you said until late at nigth and everything worked o.k. i had to change values for SafeH, SafeW, SafeAviH, SafeAviW, SafebH, SafebW, ResX, ResY, safex, safey and remove img = img.zoom(factor="Spline(n,1,1,100,0.79)", \ width=safex*1, \ height=safey*1, \ srcx="centerx3", \ srcy="centery3", \ dstx="Spline(n,1,288,100,288)", \ dsty="Spline(n,1,232,100,232)", \ angle="Spline(n,1,-0,100,90)", \ show=false) because the slide was bad positioned and cut thanks again | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 28 04:53 | ||||||||||||||
| Happy to hear that you found a way to do what you wanted.
Been playing around with the new motionbackground feature and made an overlay video as posteffect. Here's an example. The videos are from here. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 28 16:59 | ||||||||||||||
| There was a nasty bug in 0.80a which caused the an animated avs background to be overwritten by preview code - making DSG to go into an endless loop. I hope it's fixed now - please get the new 0.80B instead!
Sorry. | ||||||||||||||
| marktwain posted 2008 Jan 29 10:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi, DvdSlideshowGui is my favourite slideshow software, but i have some problem...The final dvd don't play very well in my dvd player Panasonic RV32: the upright corner in the movie is warp. (see image attach)
If i play a dvd slideshow created with Nerovision Ahead, it play correctly. How can i fix this problem? Thanks and excuse me for my little english. marktwain cimg1685.jpg | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 29 12:18 | ||||||||||||||
| @ marktwain
It looks like you got something magnetic too close to your tv... like a speaker. This is definitely not caused by DVD slideshow GUI. Just try to run your dvd on your computer... :) Btw. the Presets: SafeX/SafeY makes up the safearea which often is not visible on standart tv's - it looks like you can allow this area to be a bit bigger so you can get the photos to fill you tv screen. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jan 31 08:03 | ||||||||||||||
| Here's a new beta for you: [edit: Get the latest from the homepage...]
New features: Change Thumbnail size Classic windows file loader Check loaded avisynth script, Save working directories, Bug: Missing post effect on overlay transitions together with animation, Preview causing save file bug. Wxbasic dosen't allow the standart windows fileloader to get multiple files - therefore I had to make it externally in autoitscript(250 k). | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 Feb 09 08:05 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
When I try to load a MP3 or m3u file in the presets dialog, I get the following error: Evaluate: System exception - Access Violation (F:\Program Files\DVD slideshowGUi\DVDsGUItempMusic.avs, line 2) I do not have this with all MP3 files. Is this a known error? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Feb 11 02:03 | ||||||||||||||
| @ ernstblaauw - No, could you upload a sample of one of your mp3 files which doesn't work? Or PM me about where I can get it?
[Edit: I noticed that you know about avisynth coding. You can always export your slideshow as .avs and have a look how the loading of mp3 files is done. If you get some idears on how to load mp3 in a more bullet proof way... let me know and I'll change the code. :) ] | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 Feb 11 10:00 | ||||||||||||||
The error seems to be caused by mpasource (also if I remove .eqaudio() ). I replaced it by DirectShowSource, and the problem is gone. However, you have to have an mp3 directshow decoder. The problem is described here on doom9. Maybe the MP3 I have has a malformed header or something. Is it possible to add the choice to use DirectShowSource or mpasource? Using DirectShowSource, a lot of other formats can be used as soundtrack. If you need more help, please post here :-). | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Feb 11 16:04 | ||||||||||||||
| @ ernstblaauw
Thanks - that was very infomative. Btw. the reason I'm using that it because DirectShowSource was very unstable when loading mp3's. The new NicAudio.dll will not load mp3 files for me, so for the time being I don't see any other way that to stick to mpasource and hope they will get it fixed(FFmpegSource.dll is too big: 3.8 MB). I guess that .avs could be used as sound/music import too at some point so people could use what ever the like to load music. :) | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 Feb 11 16:56 | ||||||||||||||
Hi, I tried other builds of MPASource (same error) and NicMPASource (also no success). I posted this in the mentioned thread on doom9, maybe there is a solution. However, I also tried FFmpegSource: a filter that uses FFmpeg. It can be found in a thread on Doom9. This filter loads my MP3 fine, however, in the documentation is stated that FFAudioSource (only loads audio) is 'Experimental, may or may not be accurate enough for real usage.' | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 Feb 12 03:16 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm sorry to reply on myself, but as I have some news, I thought it is no problem.
I emailed with the author of MPASource. He suggested that the mp3 file is maybe 'slightly corrupt'. Loading the file in mp3directcut and doing 'save all' solved the problem! However, this is not a solution for DVD slideshow GUI: mp3directcut is not open source, so we have to find an open source, command line driven alternative. (Only if you still want to overcome this problem; it turns out to be a faulty mp3 file.) Does someone have an idea? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Feb 12 06:39 | ||||||||||||||
| Well I think that mp3directcut is a nice solution for people with a similar problem. I'll add a link in Troulbleshooting/FAQ. Thanks for finding out of these things.
I just noticed that the DreamScene option for Vista oftens just is looping videos, which can be downloaded and used as backgrounds for you slideshows: http://www.smitsgallery.com/Dreamscenes.php http://www.vistahd.org/content/blogcategory/18/67/ Most often these can be used in DVD slideshow GUI by a bit of avisynth code:
Copy/paste this into Notepad, change the BilinearResize and ChangeFPS values to fit your projects ratio and frame rate(ex. NTSC is 720,480 & 29.97) and change the filename and location of you videofile. Save as .avs and now you can open this file as a background under Presets and you'll have a cool moving vista-like background to your slideshow. | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 Feb 21 03:42 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
The author of MPASource has released a new version whoch fixes my mp3 bug! Could you include the new version in DVD slideshow GUI? You can download the latest MPASource on http://avisynth.org/warpenterprises/#mpasource Ernst | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Feb 21 03:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for tracking down and solving this mpasource problem. :D
I've added this new mpasource to the download of DVD slideshow GUI. Great! | ||||||||||||||
| thorir posted 2008 Feb 27 13:33 | ||||||||||||||
| Is it possible to offset the "safe" window off center?
I have an image that I'm using for the background with a large header and no footer, so I'd like to offset the images in the -y direction. Any tips? Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Feb 28 02:22 | ||||||||||||||
No that's not supported in the gui, but you can allways use the animation function to place images anywhere in the screen. Just add a keyframe at the start and at the end of the timeline at the new x,y position. | ||||||||||||||
| thorir posted 2008 Feb 28 12:22 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks.
Great program! | ||||||||||||||
| vjvital posted 2008 Feb 29 18:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank You, tin2tin For this great slideshow maker ! :)
But When i start using all of its great opportunities - i saw small bugs: Videofiles coding with the codecs, in my case, MJPEG, which easily recognize such programs as virtualdub, cyberlink PowerDVD, Mediaplayer classic - NOT IMPORTING TO THE "DVD slideshow GUI" You can be helpful program http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ :D OK ! :oops: I went a different way. I start to use "uncompressed RGB" format - these videofiles are normally imported with the photos. BUT when i starting export - i saw speed memory overload (http://www.globalclipboard.com/systemeye/) and message with the memory error. :-x My slideshow not fully finished - only part of my slides are ok - other - not rendered ! :cry: Of course I can assembling my small parts of the slideshow - but whether this is the sence :?: What I am wrong :?: | ||||||||||||||
| salvatore posted 2008 Mar 01 04:22 | ||||||||||||||
| I have troubles in using the program on Windows Vista Home Premium.
The program installs regularly, and I can import my JPG images, but the preview facility blocks itself because does not find a codec file. Exploring the program possibilities I tried to export, and it works showing me a preview of the images. I can also save the file, and subsequently run it, but when I try another set of images, either by selecting "new project", or relaunching the program, it gives an error message: "unable to save file", and from this moment on shows me always the first selection made. I can only work by deinstalling and reinstalling the program. Can anybody help me? It is very difficult to know where to post this request in this forum, but I hope that someone more expert coul help me also for that. Thanks, Salvatore | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 02 06:19 | ||||||||||||||
| @ vjvital - I'm not sure if I understand your problem correctly, but all video/audio formats avisynth supports can be imported in DVD slideshow GUI by writing a simple avisynth script(DSG can import avisynth scripts(.avs). Check this out: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Importing_media. If you're having problems with memory try to higher the virtual memory on your computer or else you'll have to render your slideshow in parts and use ex. Mediajoin to join the files into one.
@ salvatore - I don't have Vista - so I guess you could say that Vista is not supported. However it would be nice if it did work. The preview is Media Player Classic running an avisynth script. Normally I suggest people to install ffdshow and enable the avisynth video decoder - but so far no one has replyed if this actually does anything for them - so I don't know if this solves the problem. It could be that you need a more Vista friendly version of Media Player Classic(there are loads of different versions around) or some kind of problem of how avisynth scripts is decoded on Vista. However if you can export succesfully it seems like avisynth scripts are processed correctly by either HCenc, avs2avi, ffmpeg depending on what format you're exporting to.
Do you mean as .gfd? I don't know about Vista - but it seems like Vista somehow is protected agains deleting and overwriting the DSG generated temp files. Could you manually delete the generated temp files before a new export, and check if that will give you an successful export? | ||||||||||||||
| salvatore posted 2008 Mar 14 12:40 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I do not understand completely your advise about ffdshow, and also what do you mean as ".gfd". For a comparison I have downloaded and installed the program on a computer running WinXP Professional Edition and I could save several DSG files without the "unable to save file" message. So the problem seems to stay with Vista. However, on XP, when I try to export the file as .mpg an error aborts the program. Same story with .avi and other formats randomly tried. I tried several installations with identical negative results. Can you kindly help me? I like the program anyhow. Salvatore | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 14 17:19 | ||||||||||||||
@ Salvatore
Check this out: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic345545.html#1809710 - but only if you get an error when trying to preview/export. .gfd= I'm sorry I meant .dsg. I guess there is some problem with wxbasic/wxwidgets(the programming language) and Vista, when saving files. If this is the case nothing will work on Vista... I hope there will be a new version of wxbasic out soon build with the latest wxwidgets, but as I mentioned I can't test Vista. On XP Pro (did you check out the FAQ/Troubleshooting section of DSG?) - What's the error? - Can you preview? If not test if avisynth is properly installed by draging a .avs file(from avisynth/examples) into Media Player Classic (in the DSG folder). - How many images do you have in the slideshow? You might not have enough RAM for long slideshows - test with a few images first. - What version of DSG are you using? | ||||||||||||||
| salvatore posted 2008 Mar 15 11:07 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I will try your advises. For the moment I bypassed the problem (in Vista) by reinstalling the program, importing the desired images and saving the project. To make a new project I do not use the menu entry (which let me fall in the "unable to save file" problem), but I delete the existing images and charge new ones, save the project and so on. I must leave always on the program, since if I exit and launch it again it will issue the same " unable etc," message after each import. Hope to have soon a patch, but for the moment I can use it satisfactorily with this trick. Another minor question: I see the image enveloped in a beige-brown square or rectangle depending on its shape, which steals some useful space. Can I change/modify such envelope? Thanks, Salvatore | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 15 14:58 | ||||||||||||||
In the path name you're saving to are there any special letters? Is it the same problem if you change the path you're saving to? Open the .ini in notepad and check if the paths look okay? Maybe this could be a simple workaround: try to delete the .ini file in the main DVD slideshow GUI folder before starting it again. Does any non Vista users have the same problem?
I guess you mean the background? The background image can be changed under "Presets". And the maximum size of the image can be changed by changing the Safe X and Safe Y values under "Presets". Read up on it in the "Help". What about exporting and previewing, does that work now? | ||||||||||||||
| fla_2 posted 2008 Mar 16 11:03 | ||||||||||||||
I was having the same problem as jmarchetti and StephanC on a very new and clean installation of XP SP2. Installing ffdshow as instructed didn't help me. What worked for me was downloading the free package from http://www.divx.com/ and installing only the codecs when running DivXInstaller.exe. Now the preview works. This happened on two different machines one XP Pro and one XP home. Hopefully someone can give a better solution since the free divx download is almost as big as DVD slideshow GUI itself or better yet the the installer should include whatever is missing. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 17 02:49 | ||||||||||||||
| @ fla_2 Good to know that installing divx fixes that problem for you. So the problem is connected to get Avisynth to work. Here's a FAQ on Avisynth installation troubles. . There is a part here suggesting installation of Xvid. Maybe it's enough to enable Xvid/Divx Ffdshow videodecoder? | ||||||||||||||
| salvatore posted 2008 Mar 19 07:38 | ||||||||||||||
| My problem is not in "saving", but in "importing".
The message "unable to save file" comes automatically after the importing operation. I deleted the "new.ini" file, but the problem persists. I saw also how to change some settings on the "preset" facilities. Thanks, Salvatore | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 19 10:45 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay. "Importing"...
If I... 1. Import some images 2. Select new 3. Import some new images ...I don't get an error. I suspect that there might be something wrong with the name of the path, where DSG is installed into... like special letters or something like that. When you get the error: "Unable to save..." then open "new.ini"-file in Notepad and copy everything and paste into a PM(Personal Message) to me. Or upload the "new.ini"-file somewhere I can download it. Can you confirm that everything else works on Vista? | ||||||||||||||
| fla_2 posted 2008 Mar 19 22:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
Thanks for the info but now that avisynth is working with the divx codecs I don't dare break it again to test the better solution. For the demo DVD on your web site you have a really nice one-by-one feature. I noticed you asked the gfd development thread about how to accomplish this in a less tedious way. Did you manage to automate this feature at all or is it still tedious? Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 19 23:39 | ||||||||||||||
| On the tutorial page: http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/tutorials.html there is a tutorial in words and there is also a tutorial in Flash/Wink here: http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/GFDexport.html on how to export to .gfd etc. It is very simple. :) Just export from DVD slideshow GUI to .gfd and open that file in Gui for dvdauthor, author and burn it. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 25 06:21 | ||||||||||||||
| Been playing around with some Free Frame Effects for transitions in DVD slideshow GUI.
Check the cool preview video out here! And here's a preview of motion backgrounds made with Ffrend/Free Frame Effects and loaded as .avs background. They will change endlessly and are very small in file size compared to rendered video. Take a look here. | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Mar 26 01:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
Your software is always so great , thank you! I have downloaded v0.81, and Classic windows file/media loader is easier than the old loader to select files :-) I have a little problem: I need to put .MOV files and photos in a slideshow. There is an AviSynth plugin for Quicktime files, called QTSource, avalaible here: http://avisynth.org/QuickTime. So I built an AVS script for each .mov file, with a command line like QTInput(Clip, color=2, audio=true), instead of AVISource (you need to have QuickTime installed; if not use the FFMPEGSource command). When I import, for example, 1 AVS then 1 photo then 1 AVS in DSG, and I export/open mpg file, the photo of the middle of the movie is not displayed; instead of it, it is the first image of the last video which is displayed. I think the bug is only with QuickTime files; standard formats like MJPEG or DIVX work fine. Any ideas ? Thanks! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 26 07:02 | ||||||||||||||
| There is a new version out. With bug fixes and 12 new motion backgrounds and 12 new transitions - all based on Free Frame effects.
Maybe I've fixed what your're writing about. At least I couldn't reproduce your problem. I've tested with a slideshow with Quicktime video included here? Try out the new version and let me know if it solves your problem. | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Mar 26 20:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
Yes, it works with .MOV videos, as in your exemple. But it doesn't work anymore if you include a photo between video files. I have tried v0.82 and I still have the problem... Thank you for your really fast replies. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 27 02:18 | ||||||||||||||
| The numbers inbetween are animated stills/photos in my example. Could you post/upload/PM me the shortest possible gfd file which illustrates the problem and the quicktime avs script you're using?
[Edit: Okay now I see the problem, but only if the first slide is an .avs file. If the first slide is a photo(and then an avs...) there is no problem as far as I can see. There has always been a problem(which I couldn't fix) if the first slide in the slideshow is avs - that's why there is a warning written in the status bar when previewing] [Edit2: Can you test this and check if this fix doesn't break some other things? Place it in the main folder of an installed DSG and run it from there. DVDsGUI_082_1_avs_fix.exe] | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Mar 27 06:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Your last .exe file resolves the problem.
Sorry, I have never seen the warning before you told me... Now, I will test it with more photos/videos. If there is something else, I'll let you know. Thank you, tin2tin! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 27 10:49 | ||||||||||||||
| I've added the fix for the bug Oliver found to the main download file on the DSG homepage. So no need to download the fix if you downloaded the 0.82 after today. | ||||||||||||||
| TCY posted 2008 Mar 27 12:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for your wonderful program. It is really quite easy to use.
I have completed my first project involving 70 JPGs and one song for a run time of about 3 mins. It is preset to NTSC 4:3 and all the slides are preset to with expo = 50 and duration of transition = 25. The preview of the project looks wonderful. However, I run into trouble when I export the project. The resulting MPG file has serious issues. The audio glitches on the first slide, but continues playing normally/smoothly for half of the show. The first slide transitions to the second, but then the show is stuck on the second slide while the audio continues playing. Eventually the slide will transition but not smoothly (ie jumps around out of order to different slides) and the audio glitches like mad at this point. I re-exported the project (several times to different disks), but the result was the same (same file size also), so there does not appear to be a hardware glitch. I changed a few parameters (namely safe area). The exported file was of a slightly different size, but the contents were pretty much the same: audio glitches, stuck on second slide etc). My rig is an Intel Q6600, running WinXP SP2 with 2.5GB memory and many GB of free disk space. I am using ver. 0.82 of DSG. Since the preview of the project looked great, my guess is that there is an issue with the MPG encoding. Could you please provide me some pointers on what to do? Thanks so much! Tim | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 27 14:06 | ||||||||||||||
| If the preview looks allright it your problem might be connected to the mpg encoder HCenc. Try to export to avi(no audio)/flv(audio) and see if you get the same error in the rendered file.
If exporting in those formats looks okay then might be some sort of max bitrate problem with HCenc. You could try with the earlier version of HCenc 0.21 and simply replace it with the one in the DSG folder. Let me know if that solves your problem. :) | ||||||||||||||
| TCY posted 2008 Mar 27 14:40 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi. Thanks for the quick reply. I exported out to AVI successfully, so it was an MPG issue. I cannot find HCenc 2.1. Perhaps I can modify the .ini file. I've never worked with HCenc before so any tips would be much appreciated.
If I can't get HCenc to work, what do you recommend for recording this to DVD? I wish to have the clearest picture (and transition) posssible since it is for a memorial DVD for the family of my best friend. The AVI export looks OK, but I can see artifacts in during the transition. Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 27 14:52 | ||||||||||||||
Okay before trying the HCenc 0.21 try to lower the bitrate. In the main folder of DSG open the HC.ini file in Notepad and change it to this(lower the bitrate)and save it as HC.ini:
If this doesn't solve your problem try HCenc from here: http://www.bitburners.com/category/software/video/hc-encoder/ There is also a GUI included so you can export a .avs file which can be rendered manually with HCenc so you can change the settings to your needs. Btw. dissolve transitions might create spikes in the bitrate. So if there is a problem with the max bitrate try to avoid these kinds of transitions. | ||||||||||||||
| TCY posted 2008 Mar 27 17:52 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks. Here's the status. I DLed ver 2.1 (thanks for the link) and set DSG to use it. I tried other transitions (other than Dissolve).
The resulting export to MPG is still messed up. Meanwhile the Previews are great. So I exported just an AVS file. But the AVS file would not load into MPC. MPC showed an AVIsynth error that points to a bug in the AVS file. There was a line in the DSG-generated AVS file that read: c = (import ("C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI/Transitions/DissolveDark.avs")) Notice the two forward slashes? So I replaced these with backward slashes. Then, I got another error msg: LoadPlugin: unable to load "Posteffects\channelmixer.dll" I fixed this second one by editing the DissolveDark.avs which was not pointing to the correct directory. So finally, the AVS file loaded. Then I used HC gui and manually converted the file to m2v. This file worked. OK. So at this point, I have an M2V file. Next thing is to attach sound to it and create a DVD player readable file. I hope to do a few more compilations. So if you have ideas on how to make this work, I would love to hear it. Thanks so much for your help. Latest update: - Using Export All, I have created the M2V and AC3 files for multiplexing through Imago. Did it once. Worked like a charm and now I have a standalone MPG file. This workflow is a bit more than I had hoped. But at least I have something I can present the family. THANKS! | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Mar 27 21:12 | ||||||||||||||
| To continue with Dissolve*.avs, I found that following AVS files don't point to the correct directory:
C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\Transitions\DissolveBlackWhite.avs(1): LoadPlugin("Posteffects\channelmixer.dll") C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\Transitions\DissolveBright.avs(1): LoadPlugin("Posteffects\channelmixer.dll") C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\Transitions\DissolveBurn.avs(1): LoadPlugin("Posteffects\channelmixer.dll") C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\Transitions\DissolveDark.avs(1): LoadPlugin("Posteffects\channelmixer.dll") C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\Transitions\DissolveDesat.avs(1): LoadPlugin("Posteffects\channelmixer.dll") C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\Transitions\DissolveNegative.avs(1): LoadPlugin("Posteffects\channelmixer.dll") C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\bin\readme_MPASource.avs(19): LoadPlugin("C:\myprojects\mpasource25\release\mpasource.dll") Easy to correct by ourselves, but maybe you can correct it for the next versions... Thank you! | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Mar 27 21:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Also, the transition Fold.avs generated the following error, and I think it must be changed by this line:
TransCrumple(at,bt,ft,"fan",true)  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 28 03:08 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry for your troubles and thanks for finding those bugs.
I don't get those errors concerning the paths of the transitions here, but now I've added the channelmixer to the transitions folder too and changed the paths in the transitions avs files too. So that should be allright now. The Fold transtion is now divided into four transitions CrumpleIn, CrumpleOut, FanIn, FanOut and I've added a Cut transition(which will just ignore the transition and it's duration if the duration is positive or else it will cut(neg dur) from the previous frame). The mpasource avs is not used by DSG - it's just a readme file which came with the mpasource plugin. I've lowered the maxbitrate in HCenc to 7500 and the bitrate to 7000 in the ini file. And the whole thing is uploaded on the homepage as version 0.82 as of today. (Btw. Gui for dvdauthor is very good program for setting up dvd's with menus and everything. If you get HCenc to encode correctly now try to export as .gfd and open that file in Gui for dvdauthor) | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Mar 30 08:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
I work with NTSC format. When I export to GFD, the project is PAL in GFD, instead of NTSC (and the setting is disabled). I changed the setting NORM in GFD file, and the GFD project opens now in NTSC: <SETTINGS GFDVERSION="1.04" NORM="0" ................../> | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 30 12:07 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for finding that one(problem only for NTSC 16:9). I guess I haven't tested NTSC well enough - I'm living in a PAL country. :)
Today AVG anti-virus complained over 'FileDialog.exe'. I've coded this in Autoit script and AVG has claimed that Autoit scripts was infected. This is not true: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=67489&v ... p;p=499403 Just update AVG and that will fix it. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Mar 30 17:03 | ||||||||||||||
| I've fixed that GFD 16:9 export bug Oliver mentioned, added a way to make motion backgrounds use the current slide as input and added 10 new avs motion backgrounds. Get the latest version (also called) 0.82 - 31. of Mar. on the DSG homepage.
One of my favs is BackBloomTimeBlur it will make backgrounds as after images of animated slides. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Apr 01 07:52 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi, Tin2tin!
Thank you for your great software. I've just downloaded the latest version (31st of March). However, I've found some errors when activating the preview for transitions and post-effects. These are the error messages in the generated HTML files: -- Transition Preview Errors: TransFlipTurn: flips more than 1/4 of number of overlapping frames FlipTurn.avs line 2 TransScratch: options are rain, dust, laserl fount, o-rings, merge, vline, hline and TV only ScracthTv.avs line 2 TransVenetianBlinds: type can be vert, hor, cheq, diam only VenetianBlindsCheck.avs line 2 Script error: there is no function named "freeframe" FF_Smear_Down.avs line 19 & 14 FF_Smear_Left.avs line 18 & 13 FF_Smear_Right.avs line 19 & 14 FF_Smear_Up.avs line 20 & 14 FF_Squash_Hor.avs line 17 & 12 FF_Squash_Hor_Backwards.avs line 16 & 11 FF_Squash_Ver.avs line 17 & 12 Splice: Video formats don't match Script error: there is no function named "freeframe" FF_MetaImage.avs line 18 & 12 FF_MetaTest_Image.avs line 22 & 14 FF_MetaTest_PeteKaleidascope.avs line 18 & 11 FF_MetaTest_RadialBlur.avs line 17 & 11 --Post Effects Preview Errors: - (no preview) BloomHippiePete.avs - (no preview) BloomMagicPete.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Draw_Color.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Draw_fat.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Draw_thin.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Paint.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Toon.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Toon2.avs ImageReader: error "Colud not open file" in DevIL library reading c:\(...)plz.png Overlay.avs line 6 - (preview not animated, just some undefined shapes in light colors) Template_Overlay_Gradients.avs Am I doing something wrong or have I found some little bugs? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 01 15:45 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes, those transitions and posteffects are new and using the freeframe plugin. I haven't added this to the preview standalones yet. Didn't know anyone was using them. :)
Btw. I think the MSU PostEffects works fine on stills/as pre-effect. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 02 10:01 | ||||||||||||||
| New version out!
0.83 New Features: Transition Preview Library(in Help Menu) PostEffects Preview Library(in Help Menu) Minimized preview of Motion backgrounds Black used as key color Bug fix: Overlay.avs transition vs. positive duration bug. Import of DSG exported .avs files. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 03 16:09 | ||||||||||||||
| I've added a more Vista friendly import dialog(I hope it works. I haven't Vista myself), and fixed some bugs and uploaded it under the same name on the homepage.
Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| TCY posted 2008 Apr 05 19:48 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin,
Thanks again for your program. I have finally completed my memorial project. Couldn't have done it withouot you. A couple of points for feedback: 1. For some reason, I could not export MPEG. Every file I exported had the same problem, stuck on a few slides, then jumps ahead randomly. The audio had different problems, it is relatively smooth (and keeps playing when the slide is stuck), but glitches horribly when the slides start jumping around. That said, I was able to construct an MPG which burned well to DVD. What I did was able to "export all" to get a separate M2V and AC3 file. I then muxed the two together with another program called Imago. The resulting MPG was great. So therefore I am speculating that something may be amiss, not with HCenc, but with the multiplexer in my setup. 2. Secondly, when I am looking at the over all project, and I wish to add a slide, or when I change the slide order, the interface resets and moves the selected slide somewhere towards the bottom of the window. This is not a fatal issue. It's just from a UI standapoint, it is a pain to keep hunting for the current edit position since the program moves the UI around by itself. I hope you take this as constructive feedback. Please keep up the good work. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 06 15:48 | ||||||||||||||
| I've just uploaded a new version 0.83D with more bug fixes. (Overlay transion with animation - Double Click on stills preview - Animation windo buttons - and added an example of animation file)
What version are you using? I lowered the maxbitrate in the latest versions. That might solve your problem. There is also a newer version of mplex out. Could you try with that one? http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ Just download the .zip, unzip it and exchange it with the mplex.exe found in 'DVD slideshow GUI/bin' and let me know if that works better for you? [Edit: Your second question. DSG is coded in wxbasic. This is also freeware and does have limitations. Ex. it is not possible to move an image up or down in a List Control - I have to destroy the Liste Control, change the order and rebuild it. Loaded slides are added after the first selected slide. Same thing when you paste slides. If you're working with a lot of slides and you need to move the - then use the copy/paste function.] | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Apr 09 05:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for the updates.
Regarding my previous post about some transitions and effects previews, here's what I've found using 0.83d (07/April): Transitions previews --- TransFlipTurn: flips more than 1/4 of number of overlapping frames FlipTurn.avs line 2 ScratchTv.avs: preview not animated, just white «A» over red TransScratch: options are rain, dust, laserl fount, o-rings, merge, vline, hline and TV only ScratchTv.avs line 2 TransVenetianBlinds: type can be vert, hor, cheq, diam only VenetianBlindsCheck.avs line 2 Post Effects Preview Errors --- - (preview completely white) BloomMagicPete.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Draw_Color.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Draw_fat.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Draw_thin.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Paint.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Toon.avs - (preview completely black) MSU_Toon2.avs ImageReader: error "Could not open file" in DevIL library reading c:\(...)plz.png Overlay.avs line 6 - (preview not animated, just some undefined shapes in light colors) Template_Overlay_Gradients.avs Overall, quite a bit have got fixed - thanks! Now, for the added entries in Help regarding these previews: they seem to be «hardcoded» to start Internet Explorer. Would it be too much to ask having these HTMLs open in the default browser? (I'm using Opera...) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 09 07:01 | ||||||||||||||
I think you installed over your previous installed DSG, since these files are not in the latest install anymore:
These effects work fine, it's just ffmpeg which doesn't render the preview of them correctly - dunno why. Just try to add them to a slideshow and Preview/Render it:
This is not supposed to be in the install anymore?
Add this to a slideshow so see what it does. Previews are with very limited colors, this "effect"(an overlay of clouds with a mask) suffers:
Try the bloom on a photo... Yep, too much to ask. :D
Yes, there seems to be an error here in the plugin. I'll take it out of the installer:
Thanks. :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 10 02:19 | ||||||||||||||
| Just uploaded version 0.84. Get it here.
I've added visual keys to the animation tool. If you left click on a key the slider will go to the key and if you right click on the key then the key will be deleted. You will find them as the small red dots above the timeline: 
The preview/generation of the 'Transitions' and 'Effects' Library is added to the 'Help' menu. You will find it here:  | ||||||||||||||
| Nestea_Zen posted 2008 Apr 10 14:30 | ||||||||||||||
| hi tin2tin. Thank you for the software.
What happened to 0.84? It crashes when I try import more than one file (jpeg). When importing files one by one it works. xp sp2 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 11 06:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Now I think I've solved the import dialog bug. And some other bugs. And unloaded the whole thing under the name 0.84A on the homepage. Link at signature. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Apr 11 06:50 | ||||||||||||||
| I didn't have the time to check it (downloading right now), but the new 0.84a looks promising: those visual cues for the keyframes are a great idea. Thanks!
About the failed transitions previews: I usually delete the previous version before installing a new one, but got lazy somewhere between the 0.83 versions... Thanks for the heads-up. Just one question: is it safe to install the extra post effects zipped file? (I mean, «safa» in the sense that these will render correctly the previews.) Thank you for your efforts and support. Keep up the good work. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 11 09:27 | ||||||||||||||
| I can't rember if I included them in the download allready...? :shock: But I think they should be pretty safe to preview(nothing's gonna explode) :D
Now you're that much into the transitions and effects I would just like to mention how easy it is to make more yourself. You don't need to be able to code or anything. Ex. try to open the Template_AMP.avs in Notepad:
All this does is changing the colors according to the values in the .amp file located in the same Posteffects folder. It is loaded by this line:
The '.amp' files can be made in this VirtualDub plugin: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic348488.html#1830394 In the thread there are some amp files in a zip. You can try unzip these in the Posteffects folder and change the 'filmy.amp' to one of the new amp file names (from the zip) in the script and save the 'Template_AMP.avs' script with a new title an .avs ending(aka. Myscript.avs). When you restart DSG this new .avs file can now be chosen as an Effect(which changes the overall color of the slideshow). | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 13 15:02 | ||||||||||||||
| Version 0.85 is out!
New Features: - Burn DVD from DSG through optional ImgBurn download and access. - Buttons brush up. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| hcowan posted 2008 Apr 15 14:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Tin2tin,
I have a quick question for you. Is there any specific reason why you cannot open a project created with an early version of DSG? I tried opening a project with the latest version that you released, and it says that it is unable to open the project. I have a rather large slideshow that I have been working on, and I would rather not have to start from scratch again. Is it possible to manually modify something in the project file so that it can be opened in newer versions? Thanks so much. Hugh, P.S. I love your software -- it is so cool!!! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 15 15:04 | ||||||||||||||
Well one parameter is changed in the saved files in the latest version and that's the path for ImgBurn, which used to be optional HCenc commandline parameters. But if you're aware of this I think it'll be allright if you open the .dsg file in note pad and change the version number '0.772' to '0.85'. It's the first line if I remember correctly. But after loading this file check if the ImgBurn path looks okay under Presets or else you might get errors.
Thanks. I've been a bit curious it anyone ran into bugs in the new stuff I've added. I guess not. Great. :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 16 10:26 | ||||||||||||||
| New Motion Background plugin: Drop Shadow.
Example here(flash video player) and download here. Unzip files into your 'Backgrounds' folder and open the DropShadow.avs file as background. Have fun, Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| schaar posted 2008 Apr 17 03:09 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi there, I'm quite new to using the DVD slideshow GUI but have been finding it really easy to work with up until recently. I realised it's possible to import .avi as well, which is a great feature IMO, but sadly I haven't been very successful. Here's what I want to do. I've made several .mov files with my Lumix camera and I want to add some of them to my slideshow. So I've tried converting them to .avi using RAD video tools which I think works ok. But then importing these files into my slideshow, it doesn't seem to want to. Something to do with framerate? Please, can someone help me out and tell me what I've been doing wrong and/or what software best to use for converting to the correct format? I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks, Sarah | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 17 03:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Your avi files are not in the same frame rate as your projet I guess. So you need to set the framerate in the 'Presets' window. Here you can change the project framerate PAL 25 vs. NTSC 29.97.
Is the framerate of your avi's 29.97/30? I can see that you're from the Netherlands meaning that your standalone DVD player most likely will not play NTSC 29.97 (US standart). If you're not going to make a dvd out of your slideshow the framerate doesn't matter that much, and you can just make your slideshow in 29.97, but if you are making a dvd you must make a PAL slideshow and convert the framerate of your avi's to PAL meaning 25 fps. I haven't been looking that much into that area, so I think that you're better off by asking that in another forum what software you can use for that - or maybe your mov->avi conversion software is able to do that? And for the future try to set your camera to shoot 25 frames pr. sec. and avoid the trouble of converting. :) BTW. Mov files can be loaded directly in DSG (if the framerate is the same as the project framerate) with a bit of avisynth scripting: Look for QTsource or QTreader here. | ||||||||||||||
| flemlion posted 2008 Apr 18 03:39 | ||||||||||||||
The 0.85 version still has a problem importing images. At first just nothing happens. But now, most of the time I get a Debug dialog that is very persistent as well.
And this allthough this is the same image that works just fine in an existing project | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 18 04:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Hmm, it works without problems here.
What I've changed is that the import dialog(which is an external application in autoitscript), now copies the paths of the imported files to the clipboard, which is where DSG gets the info on what files to import. Wxbasic(in which DSG is coded) doesn't allow import of multiple files, so in order to use the windows file dialog and getting multiple files I had to script this in an external program. The external program used to save the info on the imported files to a txt file which dsg opened, but Vista will apparently not allow the filedialog program to save this file, that's why I've tried the clipboard route. (The Vista smile: :? ) As you can understand I'm pretty sick of all these workarounds... Well, as I said it works okay here, so I'm a bit puzzeled about your problem. Could you in Notepad paste whatever the clipboard contains after an attemp to import images and see if anything differs from this structure: 1. line: The path of the folder 2.(-#.) line: The names of the imported images. - Are you running XP? - Is it a tif image? (wxbasic complains about these - ignore these complaints) - Do you have any program running which interfers with the clipborad when its updated(ex. Lingos)? Close it. Please reply so we can find a solution. :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 19 07:34 | ||||||||||||||
| I might have added the ImgBurn stuff to an older version with import problems. I hope that's fixed now. New upload is called 0.85A. I've taken loading of tif files out because I'm not too sure if that was reason the troubles?
Download from the usual place. Link at siganture. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Apr 21 09:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Going on a vacation. So I won't be able to reply for a while. Remember DSG easy expandable - when it comes to Backgrounds(.jpg .png .bmp motion: avs/avi), transitions (.jpg .png .bmp/.avs), Posteffects(.avs), animation(Presets/ .kbp) , examples (just remove the path of DSG in the .gfd files and use the included a.jpg and b.jpg). Or show you slideshow as flash on a homepage .... whatever ... but be generous, inspire and share... | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 Apr 26 03:26 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
I just tried to make a photo movie. However, I cannot import any photo's into Dvd slideshow GUI. I just use the import function. I select the pictures and press Open. But after that, the files do not show up in DVD slideshow GUI. However, I do not get a 'Debug' window. I use WinXP SP2. Hopefully this can be solved :-). | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 May 05 05:04 | ||||||||||||||
Sorry for the double posts, but of course I'm available to test a solution on my computer :-) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 05 05:48 | ||||||||||||||
| What version are you using?
Could you try the tests mentioned here? http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-450.html#1837978 Close all programs which might interfere with the clipboard. | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 May 05 05:59 | ||||||||||||||
- My clipboard is not altered after trying to import. I now get a error - because there is something else in the clipboard and I think DSG doesn;t understand it. - Disabling my firewall (Comodo Firewall Pro) / antivirus (AVG Free 8) doesn't make a difference - I think I closed all programs which have access to the clipboard - it is not a tif image If you need more info, please ask :-). | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 05 06:11 | ||||||||||||||
When you hit open on the import file dialog, the imported file names should be added to the clipboard(paste in Notepad to check), unless some program is running which interfers with it... What is your version number(when did you download it? Check if the latest version is newer.) | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 May 05 06:33 | ||||||||||||||
I redownloaded the latest 0.85A, but I think I was already running that version. I don't know what interferes with the clipboard, but I closed almost all programs (except for wireless connection, anti-virus and firewall), but still the problem exists. I have no clue which program is possibly interfering. Do you know other things I can try? | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 May 05 09:44 | ||||||||||||||
I was thinking: maybe you can use a text file to store the names of the imported files? That way, you do not mess with the clip board (maybe the user has valuable info in it) and no other programs can be involved by blocking the clip board. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 05 13:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Well, that's was the way it worked before Salvatore couldn't run the filedialog.exe on Vista, because Vista wouldn't allow it to save temperary files...
By using the clipboard apparently DSG now works on Vista and is still working on my two XP SP2 computers. :? | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 May 05 16:36 | ||||||||||||||
Is it possible to make it an option? Then, the problems are solved. I do not think I will find the program which interferes, and it is not a perfect solution: you never are allowed to run programs interacting with the clipboard. I'm sure there are or will be other people with the same problems. Btw, I was wondering if there isn't a built-in file viewer inside the Windows-API (the standard file open dialog), so you do not have to use an external program? Hopefully, you will make it an option :-). And of course: thanks for all your time and your program! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 06 00:48 | ||||||||||||||
| DSG is programmed in wxbasic, which is an unfinished and uncomplete programming language build on wxwidgets. Unfortunately it's not possible to load multiple files in wxbasic, therefore I'm using autoit script for the filedialog, whch has caused new problems with Vista (saving temp files), and causing untrue troyan horse repports. I getting fed up with the errors caused by differet windows setups/installed versions etc. :( | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 May 06 02:53 | ||||||||||||||
I understand you very well, and I agree it is much better to use your time for new features, etc than working around the problems of the programming language. I'm still searching what's wrong with my configuration, but also in Safe Mode, the clipboard stays empty. Maybe I have stopped a service or something else is wrong (other locale, security settings, registry values, keyboard lay-out?). Do you have ideas left? Because I do not think it is a program that interferes, as in Safe Mode there are no started programs. update I also got the problem with version 0.84. I cannot test with version 0.83, as I do not have that version. Tin2tin, could you provide me that version, please? | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2008 May 08 11:39 | ||||||||||||||
As you posted the format of the memory, I thought: I can create it myself! So, I made a small batch file (DSGlist.bat):
You have to specify which files you want to include. So, to make a list of all jpg files inside the current map, I do:
Now, a file called DSGlist.txt is created with on the first line the map and after that, all jpg files. I open the file, I copy the content to the clipboard (except for the last empty line!) and I go to DSG. As DSG does not alter the clipboard on my computer, I just select a random file to open. DSG reads the clipboard and voila: it adds the files you manually copied to the clipboard! Tin2tin, I found a little bug. I liked the idea of BackZoomBlur.avs, so I tried to use it. However, it is only usable if all your pictures have the same 'rotation' or the same height/width. If not, a black area is seen during a transition. Do you know what I mean? Keep up the good work :-) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 09 03:02 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry for all your troubles. I hope that the option to load multiple files in wxbasic one day will be added, so files can be imported internally with the standard windows filedialog from DSG. Either that or if I get Vista some day will find a way to get the filedialog to save temp files to hdd.
About BackZoomBlur - try to load the .dll it in Ffrend, then you can change it to your needs and export as metaplugin with the included filters embedded and exchange that with the current .dll or make a new(name) dll and a new avs script file to load the dll. [Edit: when using motion backgrounds - don't use the differet dissolves - the background is key'ed into the color $00000000(black). There is a pop up window mentioning that when choosing a motion background] | ||||||||||||||
| vix11 posted 2008 May 11 19:05 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Love working with this prog its going well, downloaded it yesterday. However I encountered a situation yesterday and today with media player. I put the pc on standby and returned to work on the prog again but media player froze up and I couldn't get things started again for the day. So today I uninstalled and reinstalled the whole prog, which I now realize was a bit stupid as it were just media player that wasn't working but any how, I'm back on track and compiled the jpegs for the slide show and today I tried importing an mp3 to it and again media player freezes up on me. Tried playing without music added and its fine but its only when I try to import a music file this happens. I have also noticed that another file has been created for my mp3 track but ends with .d2a.
I tried what I could from my basic knowledge which is close to zero when it comes to the media part of IT. I'm basically stuck on what to do. I am planning on adding another 1 or 2 slideshows to the dvd and will be using GUI4dvdauthor, can I put my tracks in on this prog perhaps if I am unable to do it on dvdslideshowgui? Thanx. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 12 04:37 | ||||||||||||||
Does this happen with any of your mp3(from different sources)? If not try to find the difference with mediainfo. If MPC hangs use ctrl+alt+del to kill the process - killing the visible gui isn't enough. There are some bugs in MPC - you could try to update it to the latest version. Adding more slideshows to a dvd with GFD: http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/Photo_Slideshow_Using_DVD_ ... page3.html | ||||||||||||||
| vix11 posted 2008 May 12 12:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Thanx for the reply I checked out first if the track from another source works and guess what it worked a treat. Cheers tin2tin. BTW as U might guess I didn't need to use mediainfo but thanx for showing me the site could come in handy one day. | ||||||||||||||
| vix11 posted 2008 May 13 06:06 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi again, encountered a different situation now. I was importing an avi file that was taken from my digital camara and I checked if it is tagged as avi and it is. However I get the following msg
DSG Message Can't load the file C:\Documents and Settings\Lodhia01\Desktop\102_COPY\Radhe/DSCF0240.AVI AVISource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc mjpg I assume here I might need to download a decompresser of something but need a bit of guidance on what exactly I need to do and with what. Thanx. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 13 08:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Check this link out on how to load media into avisynth(which is what DSG is using):
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Importing_media#How_do_I_load_my_vi ... viSynth.3F | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 14 08:36 | ||||||||||||||
| I see others have had the same fourcc problem, but I don't see a solution for importing avi's with that problem into DVD Slideshow GUI.
I can load my avi file with DirectShowLoad(), but not AVISource(): AVISource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc mjpg I see the link on how to load media into avisynth, which DSG is doing, but I don't think I can change that. I'm just using the GUI to import an AVI file, and I get the error. I think DSG looks like a great program, but I can't get beyond the first step, importing my video. Any insights? Thx, Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 14 09:16 | ||||||||||||||
| [Check out the Q and A here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071204005948AAaPfXw]
Did you install the included XVID? Alternative: try to install ffdshow it should contain the mentioned decoder(as mentioned in the link above). DSG can import avisynth scripts (avs) as slides, therefore the link above. That way ex. DirectShowSource() can be used. Or any other media avisynth supports can be imported as explained in the above link with a bit of avs scripting. Btw: Here's a couple of MPEG decoders: http://download.videohelp.com/liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl?p=download | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 15 11:04 | ||||||||||||||
| Making some progress -- I downloaded and installed the Panasonic DV Codec, and now AVISource() in Avisyth works!
Alas, it's still not importing into DVD Slideshow, now it's giving the error "Video Framerate Doesn't Match". I'm 100% certain that the framerate is 29.97, I've tried the Presets at all 4 settings (the correct one is NTSC 720x480, 29.97fps), but it still won't let me import. Getting close, though -- any ideas? Thx, Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 15 12:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, I've traced the problem down to the automatically generated DVDsGUICheckFPS.avs, which generates
try{blankclip(length=1,width=720,height=480,fps=29.97).eqaudio().converttoyv12()+avisource("S:\vt\avs\/burns295.avi").eqaudio().converttoyv12().LanczosResize(720,480)} If I tweak the code and add AssumeFPS(), the splice works: try{ x=blankclip(length=1,width=720,height=480,fps=29.97).eqaudio().converttoyv12() y=avisource("S:\vt\avs\/burns295.avi").eqaudio().converttoyv12().LanczosResize(720,480).assumefps(x) x+y } There's some info at http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1098648 My theory: the 29.97 as a fraction is being stored as something slightly different, and this problem isn't showing up when the frame rate is 25 (PAL). It appears, however, that the script generation, to check the FPS, is hard-coded in DVD Slideshow. Any suggestions on how to work around this? Thx, Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 15 13:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Getting even closer...
The file avifpscheck.txt contains one line: 29.969999 when run from my debug script. So it's a rounding error, which again appears to be hard-coded in the exe. I could create a tiny .avs file that just contains the line that loads the avi file, but I really don't want to do that, I'd prefer to be able to import the .avi file directly. Is there any way to get on the beta list for DVD Slideshow, as I think this is something that will have to be fixed in a release. Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 16 01:33 | ||||||||||||||
| Bad news. A virus has killed my computer with the sourcecode for DVD slideshow GUI. :evil:
Meaning I can't even boot the computer ... | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 16 08:27 | ||||||||||||||
| Good luck recovering that, I'm very much hoping you have a backup somewhere! | ||||||||||||||
| roma247 posted 2008 May 18 12:47 | ||||||||||||||
| Hmmm...I can see this is probably not the best time to be asking questions, but I'm floundering and could use assistance...
I am doing a project with DVD Slideshow GUI and first I have a comment: importing files would be much easier and faster if one could do it using thumbnails instead of only filenames. (I know that you recommend dropping them into one folder so they can be imported in a batch, but that also is time consuming...) In addition, when creating a large slideshow, using the arrow buttons to place them is a bit troublesome, particularly since they often do not remain in the same order you import them (I'm not sure why). But the biggest problem I'm having is that whenever I try to add any animations to the slides, the whole file goes haywire on me. At some point, the program crashes and reduces the slideshow to all one image and subtitle over and over again, and I have to revert to my last saved version. I'm not sure why this is happening. Lastly, another comment regarding subtitles: first, the font style and color settings never seem to be retained... Second, it would be nice to be able to format the text itself. For example, if there is more than one line of text, it would be nice to be able to select the line breaks. Is there a way of doing this that I am unaware of? Sorry if these comments/questions seem ignorant. I think I know what I'm doing, but I don't have the technical vocabulary... :? TIA for your assistance, Lisa | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 19 06:58 | ||||||||||||||
What version are you using(look in the Help file)? The import dialog is with thumbnails. You can also use copy/paste to move slides.
If you find a way to repeat that error, then please let me know what you're doing exactly. I can't fix problems I can't reproduce.
Linebreaks are not supported. Sorry. Concerning the font etc. DSG is using as many of there attributes as possible(and olso in GFD export). Most subtitle formats do not contain the actual format of the font. | ||||||||||||||
| roma247 posted 2008 May 19 23:28 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm using version .78. Errrrmmmm...I looked just now and saw the "thumbnails" button. :oops: Don't I feel like a total dork. Though they are awfully small... :wink:
I have no problem repeating the error. Right now I have a file with about 25 slides in it. It's doing OK until I choose to add an animation to slide 9--a zoom. Everything's all right, I save my work, I click the preview button ( the slideshow preview, not the animation preview...). The slideshow preview goes smoothly until I hit slide 9. It tries to render the zoom, fails, goes back to slide 8. I get slide 8 for the rest of the preview. If I happen to save my work after this glitch, it actually populates all of the slides from 9 to 25 with slide 8's, down to the end. The only way to recover is to restart the program and re-open the file. Then it's fine, except that it does it all over again when I hit preview. I'm guessing that I don't have enough RAM...but on only 25 slides? It seems to me that does not bode well. I read what the help file said about that topic...man, do I have my work cut out for me. But at the end of the day, if I do everything else (import it all, set the duration, add the text, etc), save the animations for last and don't preview them, will my system be able to handle the final processing, or will it crash and burn then too? I can live without previewing it if I have to, but I don't want to do the work and then not be able to burn it to DVD. FYI: I'm running Windows XP v.5.1.2600 on a machine with an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.00GHz , 1 GB of RAM and a 75 GB Hard Drive, of which only about 18 GB is free. I just did a defrag last night, but it didn't help much. (And the more I try to convince myself that I know what I'm doing, the less I'm convinced...) Hmmmmm... :? Thanks again for your help. Lisa | ||||||||||||||
| roma247 posted 2008 May 20 00:18 | ||||||||||||||
| grrrr...I downloaded and installed the latest version of DSG, and I had no idea that the file I created with the previous version wouldn't open in the new version...
...but worse, when I try to import images (the same ones that I had in the former file...), it keeps giving me a 'bad index error' : Index 0 outside of array size 4094 (wGrowGet) menupaste() in file "C:\ProgramFiles\DVD Slideshow GUI\DVD Slideshow GUI.exe, line 1520: > if (kb_bank[ani[i],0,0>-1 then I have to click OK, then it asks if I want to exit. Whether I click yes or no, it closes anyway. I got around it by importing more than one file at a time, but when I went back to importing a single file, it did one, then gave me the error again. Should I uninstall and re-install? I'm not trying to be troublesome, really I'm not... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 21 07:18 | ||||||||||||||
| @ roma247 - Download this one(0.85B - patch), place it in the main folder of an installed 0.85A and allow the old one to be overwritten. Let me know if this solves your import bug. (0.78 is really, really old and I hope that the bugs you are mentioning are fixed in the newer version).
@ tacman1123 - I'm sorry about your framerate problem. The fps error is the error report of avisynth. It will not allow splicing of video which isn't the exact same framerate. I think someone made an avisynth batch scripter where you can batch generate avisynth scripts(with assumefps(29.97) for videos. Use that to generate .avs scripts for your videos and import those .avs scripts into DSG as slides. | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 21 07:22 | ||||||||||||||
| @ tin2tin - Any luck finding a back up of the source code? What language is it written in? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 21 07:32 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm up and running again. It's coded in wxbasic. Did you see my batch suggestion for you above? | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 21 10:56 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes, I downloaded the batch scripter, and it's somewhat interesting, but your program offers much, much more, both in its capabilities as a GUI as well as a learning tool (exporting to .avs and walking through the code).
Have you considering Open Sourcing the code (SourceForge?), and letting others submit mods? Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 21 14:12 | ||||||||||||||
| On the fps import issue: The entire NTSC slideshow runs with 29.97 fps, therefore the avi/avs imported must have the same framerate. If I force clips which are not 29.97 to run that speed audio will be out of sync. The optional import of avs scripts allows the user to import pretty much anything avisynth supports(inc. .mov, mpg, mp4 etc.) as long as the framerate is the same as the project.
On the open source question: By now only 4-5 people code in wxbasic, the development(one developer) is moving very slowly(I think it was in 2004 I asked for the function for loading multiple files in wxbasic - as of today it's still not implemented). Take a look at the status thread in the wxbasic forum... In that way it doesn't make a lot of sense to clean up the messy code(13.000 lines of code), in a way that other people would be able to understand what's going on. And as I've mentioned a couple of times in this thread it is very easy to expand DSG with transitions, backgrounds, motion backgrounds, pre-effects, post-effects, but so far only 4 backgrounds has been shared by the users... so I don't want to put my/your hopes too high on the open source - development thing. :) | ||||||||||||||
| roma247 posted 2008 May 21 21:11 | ||||||||||||||
| Ah! Thank God! It works! I was getting ready to throw things across the room.
My computer is still crapping out on the animations and now that I'm up to about 100 slides, it's having trouble previewing them at all. But I'm guessing that it's just the limitations of my computer, and I'm just going to have to deal with those limitations. Thank you so much for your help, tin2tin. Lisa | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 21 23:36 | ||||||||||||||
| Good. The bug seemed to occur when importing 3 single images in one by one. I guess I never tested that.
On previewing: left mouse doubleclick on a slide and you'll preview that slide+the transition+the next slide. It's much faster to preview and should give you a better play back frames pr. sec rate. Alternativly you should render your slideshow to ex. mpg to see it all. One thing which slows the animation part down a lot is that it's using the original size of the images, so downscaling 6-8 MB photos will help (720xPAL/NTSC height) unless you're zooming a lot into the images. Highering the virtual memory on the computer will help too. What's your final format?
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| tin2tin posted 2008 May 22 03:22 | ||||||||||||||
| Added the patch to the pagage on the homepage.
Latest version is 0.85B. | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 22 06:29 | ||||||||||||||
| Download link from the homepage (http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/DVDsGUI085B.exe)
goes to a 404. I'm thrilled that you recovered the source code. Can I put in a few requests? (1) Can you put an "About" screen in the Help, with the current version / build date of DVD Slideshow GUI. Info about the other tools would be cool too. (2) Speaking of other tools, can you display the command line for the DOS-based tools that you use? For example, exporting to AVI shows a DOS window with the results of avs2avi.exe, I'd also like to see the full command line that created it. Those two are pretty trivial. The one that's harder is fixing the animation so that it feels more natural. When I'm moving a picture around at a keyframe, I feel like the picture is attached to a spring -- I move it to one side, and it either barely moves, or it zips across the viewing area to beyond where I can even see it. Is that behavior not happening for you? Maybe there's some ratio issue, but I find it very difficult to use. ProShow Gold's UI (www.photodex.com) is great, but they don't handle imported video very well. Their slideshows, though, are spectacular, the producer version supports keyframes and layers and almost anything you can do to still frames. Anyway, I'm experiencing something with DVD Slideshow that's probaby a bug when setting zoom and pan parameters. I'll download .85b when it's available to see if the zoom/pan problem still exists. Thanks again for this program, please tell me you're backing it up somewhere! And BTW, if you did Open Source it, I'd take a look at it, to at least see what was involved in moving it to some other language. And while there might not be many wxbasic programmers out there, people like me could be looking at how the scripts interact, not focusing on changing any of the wxbasic, but rather on integrating things like KBE and SubtitleEx. Thx, Tac | ||||||||||||||
| Baldrick posted 2008 May 22 07:05 | ||||||||||||||
| Yep, the latest download link is broken. Fix now! :). | ||||||||||||||
| XfreehueyX posted 2008 May 22 09:34 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm in need of some big help here.
Every single time I go to finalize my slideshow and turn it into a video it never works in the end. There is always a error or something. What this normally results in is either the video is much shorter than what I intended it [Like 3 minutes instead of 6] or towards the end of the video the last few pictures will just freeze up. That is pretty much all I know about the problem, if you need me to give anymore details just let me know. I warn you that I'm not the most savy at these things so if you can let me know exactly what I need to tell you about the problem. | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 22 11:10 | ||||||||||||||
| When you say "turn it into a video" is this exporting it to DVD or some other format? Does the Preview work (in Windows Media Player)? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 22 11:19 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Baldrick:
Sorry, must have forgotten to upload it. It is up now. I've only fixed Lisa' bug finding(loading slides one by one), and added optional saving of project on exit/crash. @ tacman1123: 1) Version and used commandline tools info are in the help file. 2) The command line is as far as I remember: avs2avi "path of avs script". The gui is the avs2avi gui. Most command line tools will show you the options with -h or -? or just h or ?. 3) If your slide image is huge the animation tool will have a hard time updating the graphics. In general using 6-8 MB photos is a bad idear - so downscaling images before importing is always a good idear. 4) KBE=Ken Burns ...? The animation tool can make Ken Burns like zooms - and but also rotate the image. The real speedkiller when it comes to animation is overlaying the animated slide on to the background. SubtitleEx: If I want a graphic intensive text over the slide - I prefer to add it in an image manipulation program like Paint.Net. DSG works this way: The Gui allows setting op various values, which then is exported to avisynth script, which is processed by various tools. The avs export allows you to to see/change what's is happening in the script. Most of the command line tools are just fed with the avs script. @ XfreehueyX: Sounds like you run out of either RAM or HDD space when rendering. Ctrl+Alt+Del allows you to view the RAM usage when rendering and also check your HDD for free space when rendering - a lot of temp files are beeing created during rendering and later deleted again. If you're running out of ram(and have a lot of free HDD) heigher the virtual RAM(using the HDD as extra RAM). Alternatively: devide your slideshow in two and render it to two mpg and use Mediajoin to join the files. | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 22 13:16 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditionally the version numbers are in the executable somewhere -- easy to find, and sometimes the help files aren't updated at the same time a bug fix is made. But more importantly, someone should be able to tell what version they're running in 2 clicks -- virtually all Windows programs have their version information in "Help | About"
I know how to run avs2avi, but with all of your integrated tools, it be nice to see exactly what's being run. Makes it easier to debug problems, and also allows some tools to be run outside of the GUI. My photos (720x480) are tiny (in disk size)-- 30k - 200k. But they do not slide smoothly at all from within the GUI when adding animation -- the motion is very jerky. I can do a screen capture and post what I'm seeing if you're not seeing the same thing. Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 22 16:53 | ||||||||||||||
| I can't see your computer specs on your profile, but all I can say is that it's proberly as fluent motion as possible in wxbasic, which has a very slow image update, and sometimes it doesn't even succed in rendering the image and the result is just plain black. I guess I get what I pay for - wxBasic is free - and so is DVD slideshow GUI... :wink: | ||||||||||||||
| XfreehueyX posted 2008 May 23 11:18 | ||||||||||||||
| All right so I did the splitting them up and doing them and that worked great for 3 of the 4 parts I am trying make. For whatever reason though the 4th part will not save no matter what I do to it. I opened up the ctl+alt+del thing but I really have no idea what to even look for. What do I need to do to fix the Ram/HDD problem? I know i have 60gb of space left on my HDD so I don't think that would be the problem, and I'm not sure how to check how much ram i have. Thanks again. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 23 13:01 | ||||||||||||||
| Does it preview okay? Maybe split the 4 in two?
How much RAM do you have? Use google to find out: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_much_ram_memory_windows_pc.html When hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del- the lowest line(status bar) in that window will tell how much ram aka memory is used. Do you have 60 gb free on the drive where DSG is installed and where your exporting your file to? If you're running out of ram, this is what you can do: http://www.delete-computer-history.com/increase-virtual-memory.html | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 26 14:29 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm still having trouble importing my avi files into DVD Slideshow GUI, but I have an avs script that I'd like to use to create a DVD. Would you be willing to share what steps you take in DVD Slideshow to burn the DVD? I see that you have mplayerc, HcEnc, and imgburn, I suspect those 3 are enough to get to a DVD, but I can't tell what you do to call those.
I've been trying MeGUI as well, but for some reason the audio won't convert. Thx, Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 26 16:25 | ||||||||||||||
| Didn't the avisynth batcher not work for you? I mean to add a assumefps(29.97) to a avisource/directshowsource command? It doesn't look too complicated?
Doesn't DSG import your avs scripts like this?
I believe someone made a Avstodvd script, but if this is not the case: Use HCenc to encode you avs script to mpg and keep bitrate lower than 8000 or even better yet lower than 7000. HCenc comes with a gui. For autoring the mpg to a dvd, use Gui for dvdauthor or Dvdauthor Gui, DVDstyler or if you do not need menus then Muxman will do. Imgburn can convert the DVD folders into an iso file which Imgburn afterwards can burn. (Gui for dvdauthor will do all this for you automatically). | ||||||||||||||
| fdunlop posted 2008 May 26 18:33 | ||||||||||||||
| Latest DVD Slideshow GUI - can't read some file names.
This program looks like it has a lot of potential for me, but it has trouble importing files. Sometimes it seems an underscore ("_") ,a hyphen ("-") , or a comma (",") in the file name trips it up. I get an error DEBUG window: ..\common\image.cpp(318): assert "wxAssertFailure" failed: invalid image. do you want to stop the program? Then "Details" of the error show something like: 17:28:45: Can't load image from file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Francis\My Documents\My Pictures\_ForPictureFrame\101-/0134IMG.JPG': file does not exist. Note that there is an unexpected "/" in the file name which should be 101-0134.JPG. I think the jpg file itself is ok because if I rename it 1010134.JPG then I have no problems. I have thousands of pictures from my Canon cameras and all have the "_" in the file name. Has anyone else seen this bug. Is it me, or is it this program? Thanks for your help, Francis. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 27 13:01 | ||||||||||||||
Well I made an image called "-_,.jpg" it imports and runs okay. Could you do the same and let me know the result?
The '/' sign is normally read as '\' aka a change of folder and therefore no image/folder exists in that path therefore no image can be found so I guess the error is correct. The question is why is this sign added to the path? I have no idea! :? DSG doesn't do any conversion of filenames. | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 27 18:03 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks, yes, DVD Slideshow works if I use a .avs script with the AssumeFPS(), although I had to use DirectShowSource instead of AviSource to have sound (this is a problem I continue to have, no idea why. These are video clips from a Canon camcorder, captured via firewire). I'm testing the DVD creation now, but it looks like it's working. Question: why no animation on videos? Seems like subtitling and pan and zoom should all work, yes? I'm not chomping at the bit for it, but I'm curious why you disabled it. Finally, would you consider adding a log file to the dvd creation? The windows pop up so fast and then go away, and often the batch scripts don't show their command line inputs. I'm very interested in what all the steps are to get from an avs file to a DVD (and I know it's not trivial, lots of steps along the way!) Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 27 18:56 | ||||||||||||||
I feel like I'm getting quite close -- thanks! HCenc encodes just the video, right? Where does DVD Slideshow use to create the audio file (which I assume is passed to Muxman to create the .iso?) Again, thanks for your help! Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 28 00:07 | ||||||||||||||
It doesn't make any sense to me... and would be an extreme speed/ram killer. But again if you need to do it I guess you use that KB script and import the whole thing as avs script in DSG.
No logfile, sorry. If it is because you want to find out about the process from avs to dvd there are loads of tools doing that process and some of them have a log file. Check out ex. the various guis for dvdauthor.
Avisynth plugin SoundOut. Alt. Quenc will render a avs with audio.
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| gadgetguy posted 2008 May 28 06:41 | ||||||||||||||
You're probably capsferring to Type1 DV-AVI. AVISource ignores Type1 audio because there isn't a separate audio stream. | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 28 18:37 | ||||||||||||||
| I think you have a bug in the option to create all 4 files at the same time -- the .txt file it's creating has a .mpg extension, instead of .txt.
I finally understand how you create the audio, the video, the .ssa and the .txt. And I see mplex flash on the screen quickly, then another CLI. Two questions would help me find the Holy Grail of automated DVD creation -- what are those twp boxes (DOS) that flash up, and what parameters are you sending in (e.g. I see mplex go by, but can't tell what you're calling it with.). Thanks! Tac | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 29 00:53 | ||||||||||||||
| There isn't one way to do it. Ex. you don't need mplex if you use Quenc, because it delivers muxed mpg(and Hcenc doesn't). Google mplex to find out of the commandline options. I can't remember how it is used, proberly just: mplex "your videofile" "your audio-file"...
(If avstodvd has command line options I guees you could use that all the way instead) Well after you produced the video files they must be authored. DSG is using dvdauthor like some of the gui's mentioned above, but apparently muxman should be more stable(and maybe mplex is not needed then). There isn't a holy grail, but lots and lots of different ways to do it... What are you going to use it for? | ||||||||||||||
| tacman1123 posted 2008 May 29 08:13 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm trying to automate some video capture (lots of small clips) to go to both a website (probably Flash, maybe mp4) and also to a DVD, with no interaction other than inserting and removing the DVD-R.
Believe it or not, avstodvd does NOT convert an avs file to DVD:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=126647&page=13 So far, DSG is one of the few tool sets that created a DVD from Type 1 DV files with audio, that's why I'm combing through all the steps trying to figure out what you did, what parameters are set, etc. And some of the basic terms are difficult to understand, like the DVD file structure, when you need VOB files, ISO files, when does mpeg include sound, etc. Yes, I can see all the command line options from mplex simply by typing it from the command line, but I'm still what I'm trying to create with it -- input to ImgBurn? input to DVDAuthor? mpeg? iso? a DVD file structure? I'm still a newbie at this, you'd be amazed how complicated this is to someone that's coming in cold. I can usually figure things out if I have something that works (thus my request to you for logs or at least displaying the command line to the DOS tools that pop up and having the option to pause them before closing the window). Most pages that describe how to make a DVD recommend a GUI-based program, which is fine, if I can also see what tools it's calling in the background, so I can re-create them with my scripts. Thanks for any suggestions! Tac PS Were you able to verify the 4-file creation problem? I can explain it more if necessary, I'm pretty sure it's just a typo in the code somewhere. | ||||||||||||||
| OldeMan posted 2008 May 29 11:17 | ||||||||||||||
| :D Thanks Tin2tin...
Just wan't to say I had been using an earlier version of DVD slideshow GUI and as a result of having to reload my WinXP system, upgraded to the .85B version. WOW... you've made a lot of very useful enhansements. Esp. in the import open dialogues... I love it. Seems to work great for me. Keep up the great work... :lol: :lol: :lol: | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 May 29 16:29 | ||||||||||||||
| @ OldeMan - Thanks. :)
@ tacman1123 - Most of the tools using dvdauthor uses avisynth/Hcenc/Quenc -> dvdauthor/Muxman -> DVD file format/iso: here.
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| fdunlop posted 2008 May 31 13:36 | ||||||||||||||
I tried a file called "-_,.jpg" and it imported just fine. So I went back and tried to import all 600 files with the - _ , in the names, and it worked fine. I will put it down to a glitch in the Windows XP file system that I fixed with a reboot ?!?! Thanks for your help nonetheless, Francis. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 03 09:33 | ||||||||||||||
| Please test this patch(new version out, look further down). With this one you can edit slides in you favorite paint program like Paint.Net, Gimp, Photoshop(haven't tested) and mspaint from DSG.
Run the test patch from the main folder of an installed DSG version 0.85B. Tutorial: Under options - there is a new option: 'Paint' on the selected slide. When selected DSG will ask you to select the path to your prefered Paint program. Then DSG copies the selected slide and adds '_copy' to the name(your original image is then untouched) and opens this copy of the image in the selected paint program. When you're finished editing the image/adding texts/colors whatever then save the image in the same name (with the '_copy' ending) and close the paint program. Then DSG will update the listcontrol with that new image. Some other things fixed are: .all bug, keying motion background ajustments etc. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 03 14:51 | ||||||||||||||
Okay it's up. Get the latest version 0.86 on the homepage. And check out homepage for details on the new stuff like 'Paint slide' (acces external photo manipulation program).
[Edit: Would just like to mention that PhotoScape also works, even though DSG thows an error. PhotoScape is really fun to play with, it's got a lot of vingettes, color looks and so forth and is free. Give it a try :) ] | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 04 09:23 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi, tin2tin.
I'm still using 0.85B (just downloaded 0.86), and have a problem importing some PNG files (can't remember the exact error message). Both IrfanView and Paint.NET have no problem reading those PNG; in fact, they were saved from Paint.NET. They are 24-bit PNG, no alpha channel. (Using 0.85B, I've imported other PNG with no problems, although I believe they were not saved from Paint.NET.) Is there any e-mail I can use to send you a sample file? I'd rather not post the photo because right now I have no way of contacting the photographer to ask for his permission to do so. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 04 09:46 | ||||||||||||||
| I've PM'ed you. Was it an error which made DSG crash? | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 05 10:56 | ||||||||||||||
| Tin2tin,
I've just read your message. Last night, I had the chance to make a few more tests in a different PC. I had strange results with 0.85B (unable to generate previews or videos with any imported file), so I decided to uninstall it and install 0.86 clean. After that, everything worked fine, even importing that image I've talked about. So, right now, I'm inclined to think it's a path problem, not a image one. Let me explain it a little better: - the PCs where I had the problem with that particular image are in a network domain - the PC where (with 0.86) everything was fine, is not connected to any type of network - after these experiences, I remembered that there's the possibility of a path problem - not security permissions, I've checked that, but maybe there's a limit to the path length DSG can handle? During the next hour, I'll probably be able to check this possibility (by moving the «previously suspicious» image to a different folder). Just for your information: the problem happened importing a picture in a folder with a path looking like c:\documents and settings\87\my documents\my pictures\pdn-task-01\00 25 abril Not a short path, with some spaces in it, but (if I recall correctly) no non-latin characters. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 05 15:20 | ||||||||||||||
OK, here's the thing:
- «My Documents» folder is «redirected» (I believe this is the term but english is not my native language) from the server - the full path is something like: \\server\(some folders this chars long....)\My Documents\As minhas imagens\PDN-tarefa01\00-25-Abril\25abril-jv-16recortar.png For clarity, I've changed part of the path but I assure you it's exactly the same number of characters and there are no spaces or non-latin characters before «My Documents». The rest of the path is in Portuguese; no translation needed (I hope) to help debug this. Now, importing that PNG causes an error in DSG:
Clicking «No» causes additional error messages somewhat similar to this one. I believe it's not necessary to reproduce them here because, after those messages, DSG crashes and allows me to save a crash log:
Notice the «corrupted» path:
- path in crash log:
The point at witch the «corruption» happens is at character position 91. Notice that this also happened, yesterday, when I first reported it, and the folder was named
Everything works If I move the file to the desktop, witch is in the local harddrive instead of the server:
I'm going to make another experiment about this in order to clarify some doubts in my mind. Be right back ;-) | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 05 16:00 | ||||||||||||||
| OK, some more details:
- Importing the picture from a shared networked folder, with a longer path and some non-english characters, seems to be OK: no error messages, thumbnail in DSG main window, but the picture name (in DSG) gets a backslash added to the beginning of the file name - Importing the picture from the desktop (local folder, not network one) caused a crash and at the log a backslash got added to the file name - Importing from 2 or 3 nested folders in the desktop causes some warning (sorry, failed to get that) and the image seems to get added to the picture list but there's no thumbnail and the filename «lost» the first characters. This is weird! Tin2tin, I've taken the liberty to e-mail you the DSG project file I managed to save with this last experiment, a screenshot, a crash log and additional info. Help, please... I really need this to work.. Thank you. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 06 04:35 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm sorry - I'm away for the weekend and I'll not be able to look into the problem till next week.
It sounds pretty strange - but i'll have to spend more time on reading op on your writings in detail. If you want to chech the paths of the files imported, the info of the files imported is in the clipboard(so after importing just hit paste in ex. notepad). I haven't tried importing from a network - and and don't have any ways of testing it atm. Well, next week I'll read up on your findings and tri to figure something out. Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| Safesurfer posted 2008 Jun 06 09:41 | ||||||||||||||
| I can confirm this problem. It appears to be related to the total path length. If my path is greater than 100 characters (no spaces) the import will fail, shortening the path to 99 characters (no spaces) works OK. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 06 16:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for checking, Safesurfer. Although my previous tests weren't so definitive on the issue (I was really tired), I too suspected that there was a limit to the path lenght around 90 or 100 characters long.
That was not my first «suspect» because I had some vague recollection of some (undefined) software having a 128 characters limit to the path lenght and, since my paths were shorter than that... Today, before reading your post, I've experimented moving the pictures to a shorter path and everything went fine, so, I was almost 100% sure that was the problem. Of course, in PCs running on a network, this limit is a big throwback. Tin2tin, I hope you enjoy your weekend. With this confirmation from Safesurfer, maybe fixing this will prove not too hard. Thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 10 07:56 | ||||||||||||||
| @ apap
Please test if this patch fixes your problem with very long paths: [new version further down]. Run it from the main folder of an installed 0.86. | ||||||||||||||
| Safesurfer posted 2008 Jun 10 08:19 | ||||||||||||||
Works for me :yeah: | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 10 09:27 | ||||||||||||||
| Goodie, and thanks for finding that bug. :) | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 11 07:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes!
The patch seems to have no problem with the long paths. Thanks, Tin2tin! (I'm sorry I couldn't test earlier but, luckily, Safesurfer was on to it! Thank you, too.) We'll this be 0.86a or 0.87? | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 11 07:23 | ||||||||||||||
| Oh, sorry for being kind of pushy, but could I ask you for a small improvement?
Right now, when importing media, if I click a shortcut to some folder, DSG tries to import that shortcut as media and, naturally, fails. It would be nice if, when clicking shortcuts, the browse window would open the target folders. Of course, if this is some kind of limitation of the (wxBasic?) programming library/API you're using, this could prove to be unfeasible. If that's the case, OK, and (again) please apologize for asking. If there's some easy way around, then please consider it for a future version. Thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 11 15:09 | ||||||||||||||
I was not aware that windows filedialog treats icon-shortcuts as files and therefore would cause an error if imported. I've tried to fix that in this patch: 0.86A. (Run from an installed 0.86 main folder)
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| apap posted 2008 Jun 12 06:22 | ||||||||||||||
| Tin2tin,
the latest patch you gave me (0.86a) solves that problem: instead of trying to import the shortcut, DSG gives a warning: Can't import file: (NAME).lnk. Thank you very much. Just a question: new.ini, in DSG's folder, needs write-access, right? (In a networked environment like ours, by default, regular users only read from Program Files folder (I believe files can be created, but not changed). I had some crashes when changing presets (from limited-users accounts), and seemed to solve the problem by adding write permission only to new.ini. If there's any other file that may need write permissions, please tell me.) | ||||||||||||||
| dancombs posted 2008 Jun 12 11:42 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello all
I'm trying to download/install DVD Slideshow GUI, and Avast! is telling me that FileDialog.exe is infected with Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}. I downloaded from http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/download.html, so I suspect this is a false positive, can anyone help confirm this? thanks Dan Combs | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 12 12:35 | ||||||||||||||
| @ dancombs: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-450.html#1831479
@ apap: DSG is a gudied user interface saving temp files for other tool to process them is what is does for a living... meaning there are loads and loads of temp files beeing saved/overwritten all the time... | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jun 16 15:09 | ||||||||||||||
| Tin2tin,
I'm aware that DSG is essentially a GUI, I was asking for files that got changed at DSG's program folder. Anyway, I must say that 0.86a is working fine (if you were waiting for additional feedback, this is my contribution). On a sidenote, is it possible to make DSG default open folder (when browsing for importing media, open saved projects, etc.) the current user's My Documents folder, for example? I've tryied changing the startup folder in the shortcut, but that didn't work (in fact, DSG «complained» about it or it crashed, can't remember exactly). Also: DSG seems «picky» about the MP3s imported as background music. I remember seeing something in this forum about it (will look it up later). Are there any easy/fast workarounds or some changes «in the works»? Last issue - at least for now ;-) I've tryied exporting as FLV (small slideshow, 5 or 6 photos, just an experiment) and got this error: The following pins failed to find a connectable filter: (PathOfTheFile FLV::Video FLV Splitter::Video) Media Type 0: -------------------------- Video: Flash Video 1 160x90 AM_MEDIA_TYPE: majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} subtype: Unknown GUID Name {31564C46-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A} bFixedSizeSamples: 1 bTemporalCompression: 0 lSampleSize: 1 cbFormat: 88 VIDEOINFOHEADER: rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0) rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0) dwBitRate: 0 dwBitErrorRate: 0 AvgTimePerFrame: 0 BITMAPINFOHEADER: biSize: 0 biWidth: 160 biHeight: 90 biPlanes: 0 biBitCount: 0 biCompression: FLV1 biSizeImage: 0 biXPelsPerMeter: 0 biYPelsPerMeter: 0 biYPelsPerMeter: 0 biClrUsed: 0 biClrImportant: 0 pbFormat: 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0030: 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 5a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .... ...Z....... 0040: 46 4c 56 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FLV1............ 0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jun 17 01:50 | ||||||||||||||
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| apap posted 2008 Jun 21 13:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes,
installing FFDShow fixed the FLV issue. Thank you very much. (Sorry for taking so long to give you some feedback, but these have been very busy days.) | ||||||||||||||
| chris... posted 2008 Jul 01 19:58 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm having trouble importing images on DSG under wine on Linux
Everything appears to work including the ability to open the example animation dsg file, I just cant seem to import anything I've tried wine 0.9.11, 0.9.64 and 1.0 dsg 86 and 86a and both copies of filedialog.exe when i go to notepad and hit 'paste' it pastes nothing, if i copy something in notepad and import a file it clears the clipboard any ideas | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 02 00:42 | ||||||||||||||
| I guess wine won't run filedialog.exe, since it's coded in autoitscript. The rest is coded in wxbasic(wxwidgets). Apparently some autoit function does work with wine: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=45266&h ... filedialog If you want to try to change the filedialog script into something which might work in wine(coded in autoit), I can pm you the code. | ||||||||||||||
| minifig posted 2008 Jul 02 13:14 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi all,
Am I correct to suppose that DVD Slideshow GUI does not make an ISO file which contains the subtitles? In the help for the export it doesn't say that in the ISO there are subtitles. So I'll have to use DVDAuthorGUI for this? Greetings, Roger | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 02 15:10 | ||||||||||||||
| If you check Presets/Subtitles then the subtitles will be "burned into" the video and are non-selectable, but great looking subtitles. All exported videofiles will be exported like this (including .iso) execept .all.
If you want to have selectable subtitles you'll have uncheck the Presets/Subtitles before export(or export as .all) and then add the exported files + subtitle file(srt/ssa) into an authoring program like Gui for dvdauthor. If I remember correctly then .srt subtitles can be loaded in Gui for dvdauthor in dvdauthor mode. Gui for dvdauthor in muxman mode takes .sup which looks much better, but then you'll have to convert the subtitle file from DSG first to sup. Btw. Exporting from DSG to .gfd(gui for dvdauthor - in muxman mode) generates a cool dvd with menus - but you'll have to export a srt or a ssa subtitle file and convert it to sup in order to use it in GFD - check out the tools section for free software which will do that for you. | ||||||||||||||
| chris... posted 2008 Jul 04 02:10 | ||||||||||||||
wine runs the filedialog.exe I dont have the development tools to compile autoit scripts | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 04 02:37 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, what happens when you hit import? Do you see the windows fileselector dialog(filedialog)? Can you select the files and hit okay?
If all this is working okay, then right after doing this paste the clipboard into a texteditor(ex. ctrl+v in notepad) and show me what it says. | ||||||||||||||
| chris... posted 2008 Jul 06 03:36 | ||||||||||||||
ok the filedialog works when loading a project, i can manually edit a dsg file to include pictures i want and when i open them in dsg it work as it should, it also saves the project file. if importing a picture normally it clears the clipboard. if i import and type in an incorrect path or filename it complains that no such file exists and the existing clipboard contents remain intact if i use a correct path/filename no file gets imported and the cliboard is cleared | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 06 17:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Filedialog.exe is only used for importing files(slides), not opening projects. Wxbasic the coding language of DSG can't import multiple files, therefore is the filedialog done in autoitscript, however I guess that we can conclude that autoitscript can't place text in the clipboard when running in wine...
I think DSG 0.77 and previous versions has the old wxbasic scripted import dialog - and therefore you will not have that problem - however there may be other bugs not fixed in that version. I don't have that version myself, try googling for it. | ||||||||||||||
| chris... posted 2008 Jul 07 11:10 | ||||||||||||||
| thanks for trying
i dont fancy using an old version i'll just write a script to add the files i need | ||||||||||||||
| ghealy posted 2008 Jul 12 21:44 | ||||||||||||||
| Just to advise that when attempting to install the latest version 0.86, Bit Defender interferes, stating that:
"File c:\program files\dvd slideshow gui\is-7g8pc.tmp infected with Trojan.Generic.296577" I have reported this to Bit Defender, asking that they investigate for possible false positives. I read all 19 pages of this thread and was quite anxious to give this software a try. <sigh> If it turns out to be half as good as everything I've read so far, I will be a very happy camper. <grin> Regards, --Gene | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 13 01:43 | ||||||||||||||
| http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-450.html#1831479.
Autoitscript is sometimes causing false positives. :( | ||||||||||||||
| $$$ posted 2008 Jul 14 09:09 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
is there a problem with animations in PAL 16:9? I just tested in version 0.86 and could not get anything like zoom/pan work, always the same AVS error when doing "Preview Slideshow": Dissolve - frame sizes don't match. PAL 4:3 seems ok for the same pictures.. Thanks, $ | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 14 12:44 | ||||||||||||||
| @ $$$
Fix something and break some other thing... try this one: DVDsGUI_086B.exe. Run it from the main folder of an installed DSG v. 0.86. The new patch-version will also add transitions between menus in .gfd export(Thanks Borax!). You need the latest version of Gui for Dvdauthor to use this. | ||||||||||||||
| $$$ posted 2008 Jul 15 04:33 | ||||||||||||||
| many thanks, tin2tin, animations in PAL 16:9 are ok now!
$ | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Jul 15 15:53 | ||||||||||||||
| Tin2tin,
does this 0.86B version includes the fixes you previously made to importing pictures in long paths and the opening of shortcuts as files? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 16 00:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 23 03:33 | ||||||||||||||
| The 0.86B is now added to the installer from the DSG homepage.
I've written a short tutorial on adding sync sound in Windows Movie Maker to a DSG slideshow here!. | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2008 Jul 30 03:53 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
is it possible to export higher resolutions for the future formats like? So it would be possible to produce a dvd and a high-resolution-file with the same show. Thank you for great work. schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 30 06:10 | ||||||||||||||
| Read up on making bigger slideshows here: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-390.html#1805484 | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2008 Jul 31 06:26 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you for your the link, I have not seen it.
Is this "which means that you would have to animate all slides... " in the 1.86 up to date? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Jul 31 07:02 | ||||||||||||||
| No DSG v. 1.86 exists. Only 0.86B. DSG will never reach v. 1.0 as long essential functions are missing in wxbasic.
Yes, you'll have to animate all slides... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've added a 'Match Slideshow to Audio Duration' to the Edit menu and fixed a EXIF data bug. Run this test version from the main folder an installed DSG 0.86B. Get it here! (v. 0.86D) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 04 03:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Added some optional IPTC data import and fixed an EXIF bug: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic353149.html#1874488
This version is called 0.86D. Get it from the homepage. | ||||||||||||||
| minifig posted 2008 Aug 04 08:14 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
Now that also IPTC data can be imported for the subtitles: is there any chance of adding the import of data like title, comment and subject you can enter at the bottom of Windows Explorer in Vista (don't know how this can be done in XP, but I'm sure it's possible)? Thanks, Roger | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 04 08:54 | ||||||||||||||
| I don't have Vista. I don't know that stuff. Only the info Jhead supports can be added in the import. | ||||||||||||||
| StephanP posted 2008 Aug 09 05:49 | ||||||||||||||
| Irregular exposition times in export
Hi, After disappointing experiences with Nero and Cyberlink, I thought I'd give DSG a try. But I am experiencing irregular exposition times in the final MPG. - I have 440 JPG images from our Cuba Holiday - I've used XnView to size them all down to 720x576 - I've joined a medley of traditional Cuban music into a single WAV - Output format: PAL 720x576 / 16:9 Except for the first and last slide, timing settings are as follows: - exposition 130 - animation no - transition dissolve - duration 10 If I check the resulting MPG, then most of the slides got their 5+ seconds alright, but there are also slides that rush by in just a single second. The music plays on without hiccup, which would indicate that something has gone wrong in the initial stages of the conversion process. Remember, all slides have exposition 130 (first and last slides 150 and 250 resp.) The .DSG project file seems to reflect these settings. Any ideas as to why/how the MPG was generated incorrectly? Stephan | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 10 03:15 | ||||||||||||||
| I didn't think that DSG would be able to render a slideshow with that many slides. I newer tried rendering a slideshow with that many.
It's proberly something which is caused by lack of memory when rendering the mpg or when it's muxed. You could try to export as 'all' and let another software mux the m2v and ac3. Or chop your slideshow in two, and render it in two and then join the two parts afterwards. Hit ctrl-alt-del to watch the memory usage when rendering, and if it shoots trhough your fysical RAM add some virtual RAM. Good luck. | ||||||||||||||
| VlasPes posted 2008 Aug 11 07:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry My english speak not good. :oops:
My problems, to export MPG sometimes without a sound. When you try to export more, then one has a sound. I try export to avi and ac3 files - the same problem. Here download (as zip-pack), my 2 files ac3, yes-sound and no-sound -> http://web.gin.cz/3vvys/test_sound.zip. I try any player (mediaplayer clasic, VLC, Avidemux). By DSG import wav sound, edited in nero wave editor. I thank you for helping me. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 11 08:35 | ||||||||||||||
Before exporting check the box to the right of Presets/Music. This box contains the path to the music used when exporting. If you don't want any music then just delete the path in this box. | ||||||||||||||
| VlasPes posted 2008 Aug 11 13:32 | ||||||||||||||
| I know how to add/remove sound.
I want play sound. Add the path wav file to box. The play preview slideshow - sound yes. Why after exporting to mpg, sound no? Why after exporting to avi + ac3, in ac3 sound no? Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 11 15:55 | ||||||||||||||
| This isn't something I have experienced. If there is sound when previewing then it's a problem 'outside' the GUI.
You could try to update the SoundOut plugin: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120025&highlight=soundout Download this and exchange it with the one in the main folder of DSG and renaming it so the name is the same. Let me know if this fixes your problem. (I can't remember if it's the latest Hcenc which is included. If the above suggestion doesn't work then try to update HCenc too). | ||||||||||||||
| VlasPes posted 2008 Aug 12 17:44 | ||||||||||||||
| I did download new files "SoundOut.dll" and "libsndfile-1.dll" Giving this to DSG directory.
I created a testing slideshow - 350 slides, 38 minutes duration. Sound track is 8 minutes. In mpg sound is plays. Sound track is repeated 5 times. It's all right, how it should be. :D I´m happy. Thank you for your assistance. :D | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2008 Aug 14 03:36 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I'm working with the 0.86D. I've created a new slideshow with 71 pictures and 4 avi files. Exporting the m2v file works ok at the first time. I did some changes at the slide order. The Exporting at this time fails - the hcenc had some troubel I think. Now I exported the avs file and encoded it manually with hcenc - this works. I think there is some problem with avi files. But this is not my problem only the prehistory. Now I'd like to export the subtitle file. The program starts with preparing images, saving avs..., and opening encoder for main movie. It writes in the temp folder, but at the end there is no ssa or srt file, I tried both. Finally I tried the subtitle export with slideshows I have created before and everything works fine. Are there any problems with the files created with 0.86D? Shall I send you my dsg file? I don't know what's wrong. Greetings schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 14 03:53 | ||||||||||||||
If your first slide is an avi - all things will go wrong(inc. subtitles) - as the text says in the statusbar in DSG. This is a strange avisynth bug I can't fix, so don't have an avi as first slide... [Edit: it's not avi but avs files which will cause the mentioned problem. If the exported .avs file renders okay(same avs as when you export from DSG to m2v - it is somehow related to HCenc vs. SoundOut or Avisynth memory handling- try updating SoundOut/Avisynth] I don't know if the latest avisynth release will fix this? @ VlasPes - Thanks for letting me know. | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2008 Aug 14 09:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
the avi file is not at the beginning. I've tested it with new SoundOut and Avisynth but it does not work. I build the complete show (all the same) again. Nothing. Just for fun I used the export .all. After preparing the images, the hcenc pops up. In the info line appears:"ERROR, can't process AVS file, wait for Avisynth error message" and than "ERROR, Script error, syntax error" After that DSG closes with the error message shown in the jpg file. Exporting the AVS file is ok. Manually encoding with the same hcenc is also ok. Exporting other slideshows as .all works fine. I saw that the subtile file was made at the beginning of the export. Which programm generates the subtitles? After that I exported an mpeg file. Hcenc shows not the error. It works, but it aborted - the same as at the beginning. The last Action I did is deleting the avi's out of the slideshow, but the export went in error again. I will reboot and test it again. schmicki  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 16 01:33 | ||||||||||||||
| What happens when you preview the slideshow with avi?
Btw. are you exporting with the same or a new file name? | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2008 Aug 16 08:07 | ||||||||||||||
| I've deleted the AVI's from the Show.
I can preview the show. Works fine. But it crashes by export .all The Same as above. I've used the same name, and other names. I've installed the complete 0.86D again - same error. I've deleted the first ten pictures - the same. schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 23 07:36 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm sorry my computer had a serious hardware problem, so it has been down/unstable for some time.
Do you think it is possible for you to make a slideshow with the included a.jpg and b.jpg files and save the project and upload it for me somewhere? So I can take a look on the .dgs file? | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2008 Aug 23 13:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I've uploaded the file on: http://share-now.net/files/34415-Test_schmicki.dsg.html | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 23 16:35 | ||||||||||||||
| I've tried your file and it exports to .all without any problems. I can't get it to crash.
Btw. if you want to add subtitles to an .all export then subtitles must be checked under Presets. Can you explain what you're doing to get this file to crash DSG? | ||||||||||||||
| schmicki posted 2008 Aug 24 12:48 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I think I've solved the problem. I've used a " in the subtitle of one picture. This crashes the export .all and don't export the subtitle separately. I now used two ' this works and looks the same. With the two ' I can export .all and can export ssa and srt. Once I have edited the ssa file before burning the DVD to the right character " It works and looks the same as two characters ' So it is allowed to use it but DSG don't love it. I hope you can kill these bug :) Greetings schmicki | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 24 15:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes, that's true, the " can't be used and DSG is not checking if this character is used in subtitles. I should add this in the next release. Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2008 Aug 31 07:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I've just started using DSG 0.86D and am very impressed - slick & uncluttered user interface yet feature-rich and works very well! Congratulations! I have encountered two problems with it, though. Below is information which I trust will help you locate and fix them. Feel free to ask if you need more information. 1) When rendering to .gfd, at the end of the process (I think!) DSG errors out with a message like: "Execution of command 'C:\Programmer\Gui for dvdauthor\GUI_DVDauthor.exe C:\TEMP\GfD\Photo Gallery.gfd' failed (error 3: the system cannot find the path specified.)" This seems to be a convenience step - loading GfD once DSG has completed rendering, because when I manually open the rendered project in GfD and create the DVD, all is well. The cause of this error is the executable path which is incorrect and seems to be hardcoded in DSG - on my system GfD is located at "C:\Program Files\Gui for dvdauthor\GUI_DVDauthor.exe". Maybe you can add a user-specified path for that like you already have for some other components. 2) When rendering to .gfd, in certain cases the process gets stuck, but can be "awoken" again. The DSG project has all default settings and is very simple, consisting of imported .jpg pictures only. No animations, only dissolve transitions, nothing fancy. The pictures themselves are small - 720 x 576. When I import 10 or so photos, the process completes successfully, except for the above GfD execution error. With 55 photos, the progress bar at the top goes to 100% and the right-hand corner of the status bar gets to "Preparing images... (55/55)". After that nothing more happens - no other windows/GUIs are opened and the DSG display doesn't change again. Not even overnight! ;-) I've gone through the troubleshooting section and increased the system's virtual memory without any effect. With physical memory of 1GB and vitual memory at 1.5GB, Task Manager shows DSG is using about 160MB, HcEnc about 185MB, with Commit Charge 707 / 2458M. At this point HcEnc is using 99% of CPU power. The fact that between them DSG and HcEnc aren't even using up the physical memory makes me suspect the problem isn't memory-related. When I highlight HcEnc, click End Process and choose Yes in the Task Manager Warning, the HcEnc GUI appears and only seems to START processing then, according to its progress bar and counters. At that point its memory usage also goes up to around 315 - 320MB. Everything else then runs to completion seemingly successfully (except for the above GfD path error of course). The resultant project can be successfully built in GfD. The version HcEnc used is the one shipped with DSG - the latest version 0.23. I hope this helps. I'd be happy to test changes for you, let me know. Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Aug 31 15:15 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks :)
Oh, I must have forgotten to to take my own gfd auto loader path out(for testing gfd export) out before compiling. Thanks for letting me know. 2) Do you have enough free harddisk space on the drive where DSG is installed and the drive you're saving your export? Can you preview the 55 slides long show in DSG? | ||||||||||||||
| cocophone posted 2008 Aug 31 22:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Is it possible to turn off transitions? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 01 01:25 | ||||||||||||||
| @ cocophone: Use 'Cut' as transition with a short length. | ||||||||||||||
| cocophone posted 2008 Sep 01 01:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2008 Sep 01 03:07 | ||||||||||||||
Hi tin2tin, yes lots of space, comparatively speaking. There's around 25GB free on the drive, and the rendered .gfd project takes about 241MB. The preview renders and starts playing within around 40s (even now with lots of office applications open). However, the .gfd rendering getting stuck happens even when DSG is the only user application running. Another thing, once the .gfd rendering has gotten stuck and been "awoken", the HcEnc "info" field shows "allocated memory: 67 MB" - could this perhaps be increased regardless? I am eagerly awaiting further news or instructions! Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 01 06:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, made a patch which checks for bad characters in subtitles and converts them like this: "->' and \->/.
And now an exported gfd file opens automatically if gfd and dsg both are installed in default dirs. The hanging HcEnc problem seems to disappear when the HcEnc Gui is running during export. Check it out and let me know if this solves your problems. Run this from the main folder of an installed DSG 0.86D: DVDsGUI086E_PATCH.exe Btw. There is a new Avisynth RC out(with better memory handling): http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=138143 | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2008 Sep 01 07:48 | ||||||||||||||
| Aahhh...... all is now very well :-).
Thank you. I also downloaded the Avisynth RC4, thanks for the hint. It works well so far. BTW, if ever we should meet I should kiss your feet, for choosing to put the GfD project in MuxMan format. That allows me to easily add the other half of my DVD-Video project, which is in MuxMan format :-). Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 01 08:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Glad to hear that it works for you now. Btw. if you do something cool with it I would like to see it. Bragging is allowed :) | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2008 Sep 01 09:20 | ||||||||||||||
| He he, thanks for the invitation, it WILL be technically excellent ;-). The effort to put a working excellent tool chain together has by now somewhat dimmed my creative flair, dash and verve, but I'm aiming for a smooth and understated user experience anyway. Somewhat reminiscent of the BBC's "planet earth" DVD series ;-).
[Sorry moderator, I realise way off-topic, but please indulge me just a little further] The second project will be video material and still photos from http://reports.overland.co.za/Francois_Visagie/Botswana_Caprivi_07_08.pdf. The current project is for similar material from Namibia. What is your involvement with the "real-life" blog and/or its contents your videohelp home page refers to? Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 01 16:14 | ||||||||||||||
| DVDsGUI086F_PATCH.exe
Run this from the main folder of an installed DSG 0.86D Bug fix: GFD transition error Added: Outlines, greyscale and uppercase buttons on GFD export. Gfd export name will be title in menu. | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2008 Sep 02 04:13 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I'm unsure whether by "GFD transition error" you mean the problem with opening GFD at the end of exporting I experienced and which was fixed in DVDsGUI086E_PATCH.exe, but everything works well in this patch. Personally I prefer capitalised text, although it's quick enough to touch up the 1 label and 3 buttons. Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 02 15:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
I have a big slideshow to make, so I export an AVS file in DSG, then open it in VirtualDub and frameserve it to encode it in TMPGEnc. As I don't want permanent subtitles, I comment the last line of the exported AVS file (#textsub("C:\Program Files\DVD slideshow GUI\DVDsGUItemp.ssa")), and I keep a backup of the generated SSA file. Now, I have my m2v/mp2/ssa files. I try to import them in "Gui for dvdauthor" v1.04, but it doesn't take SSA files anymore. I think it only takes SUP files. Could it be possible to make the avs script generate a SUP file for the subtitle ? It seems to be the new standard format for subtitles... And BRAVO for your beautiful software, DSG is always a great slideshow creator! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 02 16:18 | ||||||||||||||
| If you don't want "burned in" subtitles uncheck Presets/Subtitles.
Have you tried to export to .gfd format(and get menus pre-made)? Read up on how to change ssa 4+ to ssa 4 (in notepad) to sst(with MaestroSBT) which can be loaded in the latest version of GFD 1.07 here: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic310993-120.html#1854201 [Edit: if you open a ssa from dsg in aegisub and save it as ssa then MaestroSBT will read it correctly] | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2008 Sep 03 03:34 | ||||||||||||||
| @ olivier
As I recall GUI for dvdauthor 1.04 did accept SSA subtitles, but only if you use the dvdauthor engine. The GFD-compatible output of DSG is compiled for MuxMan use. If you do insist on SUP subtitles for either dvdauthor or MuxMan, there are many utilities and ways of achieving that, see the Subtitle tool section http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/subtitle. In principle the easiest way is to select the SUP generator you want, check whether it accepts the .SSA generated by DSG, if not use one of the excellent text-based subtitle tools such as Subtitle Workshop or Aegisub to convert from .SSA to the input format required by your tool. When using GFD with MuxMan, I find it both easiest and best to input DSG's .SSA into MaestroSBT to render .SST. You either need GFD 1.07 which supports .SST with MuxMan, or use MuxMan directly. Beware that the current MuxMan has a subtitling bug that seems related to the use of (multiple?) titlesets. The good news is there's a work-around: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Muxman - look for the text "encoded line exceeds 1440 bits". Hope this helps, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| majgeek posted 2008 Sep 03 16:37 | ||||||||||||||
| I like DVD slideshow very much, I have run into a small problem though. I am working on a show that has several solid black title slides. NO matter what I try it seems that the color of the slide is dark grey when it is imported instead of black. I have the slideshow background set to black and the dark grey stands out. I noticed this same problem makes the slides loose a lot of their contrast. What if anything can I do to get black blacks in my imported pictures?
Thanks, Paul | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 04 00:37 | ||||||||||||||
DSG converts colors into Broardcast colors for proberly viewing on a DVD::
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| olivier posted 2008 Sep 04 15:31 | ||||||||||||||
| For my subtitles, I loaded the le SSA file in Sub Station Alpha v4.08,and saved it (change 4+ format to 4).
Then I opened it with MaestroSBT and generated SST file. Gui for dvdauthor v1.07 accepted it, great! Here are the parameters I set in MaestroSBT: Rendering: - SST export - Windows BMP 4 bit (Gui for dvdauthor only takes 4 bits) - 720*576 (DVD resolution) - Only one set of text antialias and outline colors: Checked Timing: - FPS 25 Styles: - Font: Arial - Font-size: 16 - Font-style : bold - Outline-size: 2 Thank you everybody for your help, and also thank you to Afterlife who has made a guide called "Near Perfect subtitles". | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 06 05:00 | ||||||||||||||
| For a much, much faster preview/render of slideshows dl this HC_fast.ini and overwrite the old in the main folder of DSG with it.
Btw. I tried to change the ssa fileformat into something MaestroSBT likes, but I can't get DSG to convert the hex colors into decimal ssa color format. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 09 07:37 | ||||||||||||||
| New Patch.
Run this patch from the main folder of an installed DSG version 0.86: DVDsGUI_0.86.7.exe Fixed some bugs in the toolbar, and redesigned the slidesettings menu. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 11 07:33 | ||||||||||||||
| New Patch:
- SSA 4.00 subtitles instead of SSA 4.00+ (aka .ASS) subtitle format. MaestroSBT will load SSA 4.00 for high q. STT subtitles(and GFD(in Muxman mode) will load sst). - Avi export will be muxed. Overwrite the old DVDslideshowGUI.exe with this one: DVDsGUI_Patch_0.8.6.8.zip | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 21 11:10 | ||||||||||||||
| New DVD slideshow GUI release candidate out.
Thanks to a new version of wxBasic a lot of things has been reworked and improved in DVD slideshow GUI. New stuff: * Localization added: (Now is english and danish included) You can localize this software by loading the 'DVD slideshow GUI/Locale/en/en.po' in Poedit. Translate it into your language and send me the resulting po and mo file and I'll add it to DSG. * Transition preview in Slide Settings menu. (Click on the media player icon to render the library of transitions) * Updated all menus and most icons. * DSG will now adapt your windows look. * Internal file loader(should be more Vista friendly). And lots of other good stuff... I call this a release candidate because I been all over the program, and I might have broken something too. So let me know if you run into any (reproduceable) bugs then let me know or else this will be the official release in a couple of days. And let me know if you want to translate in into your language... Get it here: DVDsGUI0899RC1.exe  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 22 16:42 | ||||||||||||||
| New DVD slideshow GUI release candidate: DVDsGUI0899RC2.exe
NEW: Instant transition preview in Slide Settings menu(without render time). BUGS FIXED: Safe area - check/uncheck load/new Dialog added: Render transition/previews lib. menu? Thumbnails moved to project menu. Enable delete button. Get the right window focused after MPC. 'Expo:' translated Save ini - if load okay. Avisynth memory handelig Hcenc faster render. Point bug in danish translation. Wouldn't save, load, export to gfd correctly. | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 23 12:07 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
Could it be possible to translate DSG into French language ? If you need help, please send me english words/sentences you want me to translate. I have tried last DSG version, unfortunately it doesn't load older DSG projects as this is not the same format. I will try to create a new slideshow from scratch till burning DVD with GFD, and will tell you if something is wrong. At first sigth, DSG has a nice look & feel! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 23 13:06 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't want me doing a translation to french. I can't even order a baguette in french. :D
If you feel up for doing a translation to french, then this is how you do it: Download Poedit.exe (it's free) In DVD slideshow GUI\Locale\en\ you will find a file called en.po load this into poedit. Change the properties to french and write the french translations in the right collum and save as fr.po. When saving a .mo file is also created - these are the two files you should send me, so I can include it in DSG. But I should clean up the .po file a bit before you do that. :oops: So maybe wait a couple of days and I might have a new RC out. The file dsg: open it in notepad and change the first line to 0.89 and insert a new line under that one and write 'English' in it, save and then you should be able to use it in the rc versions. | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 23 16:10 | ||||||||||||||
| Ok, I will wait for your new RC before using Poedit, and before translating baguette to... baguette (DSG sure uses this word :-)
I edited the DSG file, changed version to 0.89 and added English under it; I also had to change transitions' name , for example Dissolve by Dissolve.avs. Everything loads properly, I will try same features as before to burn to DVD and will tell you if something is wrong. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 23 23:58 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin,
Thanks for a great program. I've asked a few questions on a different thread and am not sure where you prefer questions to be posted. The slideshow photos displayed on my HDTV look just a bit lighter than the same ones from my digital camera connected to the TV. Or the original jpgs displayed on my computer monitor. There is not a lot of difference & the slideshow could be correct. But I was wondering if DSG does any automatic correction to jpg photos? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 24 00:33 | ||||||||||||||
| Tv has a limited color range compared to computers therefore colors are converted til tv friendly colors when using DSG. I don't know if/how colors are converted when you watch jpg's from your dvd player and if it's the same process in convertion. In the end of the day dvd/mpg and jpg's are two different things. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 24 02:26 | ||||||||||||||
| New patch to 0.8.9.9 RC2: DVDsGUI_0899RC3.zip
Unzip and place in an installed 0.8.9.9 RC2 main folder of DVD slideshow GUI. Bugs: Shut down: Kill help Resize images in listctrl correctly. check/uncheck safe area Locale's ',' vs. ntsc. Stop player when hidden. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 25 01:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Can I burn to DVD-RAM? I thought ImgBurn could write to RAM and I went into settings checked the DVD-RAM box. But it does not work. I get an error message that the disc is not empty & it will erase the contents. After writing I checked the disc & it has the typical DVD-R folders & files. And it will not play in my DVD player.
Since I'm still trying different things with DSG it would be nice to write to DVD-RAM. Please let me know if this is possible. Thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 25 02:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Never tried it. According to wikipedia it has Less compatibility than DVD+RW and DVD-RW. Have you succeded in playing any dvd-ram dvd on your standalone?
Don't know much about ImgBurn - maybe you should ask your question over there? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 25 04:23 | ||||||||||||||
| New DVD slideshow GUI release candidate: DVDsGUI0899RC4.exe
With another round of bugfixes, new icons and a nice default slide thanks to my brother. @ Olivier: I added French to the menu and a Locale/fr/fr.po file. When you installed Poedit just open that po file write the translations into the right collum save and send me the files(.mo and .po). If you save into the same folder under the same name - you'll be able to see your translation in the gui. :) | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 25 11:02 | ||||||||||||||
My DVD player is a Panasonic recorder/player and is RAM compatible, which is what I mainly use. ImgBurn did burn to the RAM, but not in the correct format. It created the typical VIDEO_TS folder & its files, vs the mpg compatible file. I did try exporting an ISO file from DSG to ImgBurn and got the same results. I thought about exporting an mpg file, but ImgBurn does not appear to accept this. I'll check at the ImgBurn forum. | ||||||||||||||
| Aliby posted 2008 Sep 25 11:07 | ||||||||||||||
| I am having trouble getting DVDSlideShow to render all my photos. If someone can assist me with trouble shooting I would appreciate it.
I have 51 photos It will render the mpg or iso. (THe same happens if I try preview) When played back the photo's run OK with burnt in sub titles until about photo 22nd photo Then it still change the subtitle, but the photo "freezes" for the next 26 photos. The last three photo's appear OK right at the end. I have tried various backgrounds or transitions (or none) I have tried updating using the patches on this forum, even using the latest RC3. That makes me think it it a config problem not a bug. I have a DELL M90 dual core. 13 Gig free disk space, 2G memory, Quatro FX 2500M (512MB) :cry: Thanks for the help, | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 25 12:09 | ||||||||||||||
| Sounds like mplex is misbehaving. Try to find a newer version on the net and exchange it with the one in the main DVD slideshow GUI folder.
Alternatively download and install Gui for dvdauthor and export to .gfd format from dvd slideshow gui and load that file in Gui for dvdauthor and let it handle the authoring(Muxman is used as authoring software instead of dvdauthor). | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 25 18:44 | ||||||||||||||
| What is the best way to update DSG to DVDsGUI0899RC4.exe?
Will it overwrite all the old files or should I uninstall the old version first? And the same with the other applications that came with DSG, such as AviSynth and Xvid. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 26 00:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Just uninstall DSG, and cancel reinstalation of avisynth and xvid if you all ready installed them with one of the latest RC's. Avisynth in the RC's is newer than previous versions, so it makes sense to update that. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 26 09:34 | ||||||||||||||
| New patch: DVDsGUI0899RC5.zip
Unzip and overwrite the old files in the main folder of DVD slideshow GUI. Dvdauthor has been replaced by Muxman. I hope this will give you guys better results... (This means no mplexing when authoring dvd's. Mplex is still muxing mpgs.) | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 27 01:22 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
Here are the french translations for DVD slideshow GUI below. With that, my whole french family will be able to use DSG! :D A little thing in DSG: If I click Cancel in Slide Settings, DSG updates the list, even if nothing has been modified. Sometimes I have more than 1000 slides in a slideshow, and I have to wait for DSG, which updates the 1000 slides. Could it be possible to do nothing when I click Cancel ? To finish my post, I had memory problems last year; but the last version of Avisynth has made huge memory enhancements, and I can now make a slideshow of 2h30min in one single process (using frameserver to create m2v/mp2), sky is the limit! fr.zip | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 27 04:03 | ||||||||||||||
Thank you very much for the translation!!!!!! :) It will be in the next installer. [Edit: fixing Cancel in Slide Settings wasn't that hard. What is more difficult is Okay because the previewer somehow updates everything in the window, all settings are returned as changed, and will be updated in the GUI, eventhough the user didn't update them. :? ] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 27 09:47 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, got a new release candidate for you. This time it's a full installer.
With the new french translation. ^ :) Bugs in Slide Settings fixed Bugs in Animation tool fixed. Muxman instead of dvdauthor+cygwin. New icon. And an installer change - now you can uncheck Avisynth and Xvid if you allready have them installed. Get it here: DVDsGUI0899RC6.exe (I know I should try to fix the cutting of help lines in the statusbar - and the helpfiles/credits needs a serious update too, but after that I thing we're getting close to an actual release. :D ) | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 27 15:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Will a slideshow of 1000 slides fit a one DVD-R? Not that I plan that, but is there a typical maximum?
When Project Settings is opened, the displayed picture has the right edge cut off if the Safe Area is unchecked or reduced in size. Since the picture edge is cut off so is a long subtitle, and you cannot see it is all going to fit. Is there a setting that allows the full picture to be displayed with no Safe Area? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 27 16:30 | ||||||||||||||
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| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 27 16:51 | ||||||||||||||
In Project Settings all the image is visible when there a large enough Safe Area. But as you start decreasing safex and safey the image increases and eventually hits the right side of the window & gets cut off. The left side is OK. What I noticed is that even with the default Safe Area, there is less background showing on the right side than on the left side. IOW the image is not centered in the display window. I can drag the right edge of the window to the left & make it smaller, but cannot drag any further to the right. Does that description make any sense? I can send you a picture or screen print if you let me know how. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 27 16:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry to bother you again, but I have another question.
I tried importing a few AVI files that were made with a digital camera. But I get an error message that DSG can’t load file. “AVISource: couldn’t locate a decompressor for fourcc mjpg”. The files do play OK with Windows Media Player. What does the error message mean and can I correct whatever needs to be done? Thank you again for all your help and advice. Mike | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 28 02:55 | ||||||||||||||
| On avi use mediainfo to find out what codec is used in your file. Then get ffdshow and make sure that a video decoder for that codec is enabled(and the avisynth decoder isn't disabled).
On the Project settings thing. I can't reproduce it here. The only thing I can see is that the Safe y value needs the correct limit for all other formats that PAL 4:3. If you can make a screenshot of it I might be easier for me to understand your problem. BTW. the project settings is just an indication of how it will look, and not the actual preview. So you need to preview (in Media Player Classic) to see what your slideshow will look like. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 28 06:43 | ||||||||||||||
| I installed mediainfo and ffdshow (version 20080927, rev 2156). My avi files are J-MPEG. There are so many settings in ffdshow & I’m not sure which to check & which to leave at default, and I do not want to disable the AviSynth decoder as you mentioned. I have never worked with video, avi or codecs before so I am probably over cautious on what I’m doing. Please forgive my asking so many questions.
During ffdshow Setup there is a Select Components window and “VFW interface” is checked by default. I presume I need to also check “AviSynth scripts serving”. Below that is a box for “Application plugins”. I presume I should check “AviSynth”. But what about “VirtualDub” and “DScaler”? Further along is a “Select Additional Tasks” window where you select the codecs and MJPEG is already checked along with several others. I do not see anything there regarding an AviSynth codec. Is there something else there to be checked? Will ffdshow interact or affect my other video program? I prefer it not to make any system wide changes. For example, not affect Windows Media Player, at least not till I get more familiar with video. What's the best way to get a screen shot to you regarding the Project Settings? Thank you once again, Mike | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 28 14:32 | ||||||||||||||
| On ffdshow and avisynth:http://forum.videohelp.com/topic345545.html#1809710
Did ffdshow help you on importing that avi? Read this if you want to know what ffdshow is: http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ On screen shots: Ctrl+Prt Sc will add a screen shot of your screen to the clipboard. Open mspaint and hit Ctrl+v to paste the clipboard content into mspaint. Save to jpg. On questions: Google and the search function here on videohelp are your friends... | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 28 23:29 | ||||||||||||||
In DSG, I export the slideshow to AVS and open it in VirtualDub. Then I start frameserving in VDub for TMPGEnc, to encode in mp2/m2v. I was doing this because of Avisynth memory problems in DSG, and because I knew VDub/TMPGEnc softwares. Also HCEnc generates mp2/m2v files, but I have no control on output settings in DSG. In TMPGEnc, I can output m2v for the exact capacity of a DVD, to have the best quality for the length of the slideshow (eg 2h30)! Then I use GFD to create the DVD, with the generated ssa/mp2/m2v files.
I don't think there is any maximum, but you must be ready to lose DVD quality with video length. Longer slideshow, less quality. Quality starts decreasing for slideshows of more than 1 hour 2 minutes. You can use Videohelp Bitrate Calculator to see how bitrate decreases with the video length: http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm tin2tin, in my opinion the last release candidate could be a commercial release! Thank you so much for this nice software, really the easiest one to make slideshows. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 29 01:04 | ||||||||||||||
ffdshow did not help. I still get the same message: “AVISource: couldn’t locate a decompressor for fourcc mjpg”. MJPEG was already checked and I also checked Other MJPEG, but it made no difference. I did Google & searched for info on ffdshow. The hits I looked at were either for home theater or the setting tutorials did not deal with my situation. I know how to do a screen print, I just don't know how to get it to you. But I found out what was happening. I was working with a monitor resolution of 800x600 and the DSG main window did fit my screen perfectly. So I never had to increase the resolution. The Project Settings window is just a tiny bit larger, but workable. But the right side of the image gets cut off if the safe area if small or zero. Even if I drag the window to the left, I cannot drag the right edge to the right. Probably because it’s at maximum size. However if I change the monitor resolution to 1024x768, it will show the proper whole image in Project Settings. Obviously the problem was on my end and I apologize for any inconvenience. Getting back to the avi problem. I don't know if it makes any difference, but the avi was made with a Canon digital camera, not a camcorder. Any suggestions? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 29 03:06 | ||||||||||||||
@ olivier
Great thanks! How do you want me to credit you for the french translation? (I was a bit surprised that 'font' is 'police' in french. Than might cause some funny misunderstandings. :) )
When rendering DSG gets the settings from the HC.ini file(open in Notepad). Read up in the HCenc docs on the options for the ini file. But HCenc can't tell you if your slideshow will be bigger that the dvd capacity. Do you know that ffdshow has a function called 'Makeavis'(in the Start/Programs/ffdshow menu), which will add a small avi that loads your avs script and allows you to load you avs script into any app which takes avi(even MS Movie Maker), so maybe Vdub isn't needed in your workflow? :) @ Mike99 Avisynth is the "video engine" of DSG. And DSG also allows importing of .avs files(avisynth scripts). Maybe you should try the various ways to load video with avisynth: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Importing_media Writing an avisynth script can be fairly simple. Use Notepad or AvsP to write a line like this: [url]DirectShowSource("d:\clip.avi", fps=25, convertfps=true) # adjust fps if necessary[/url] And save as .avs. And open that new file in DSG. BTW. DSG only takes 25 (PAL) or 29.97 (NTSC) frames pr. sec. 'Assumefps(25 or 29.97)' can be used as command to make sure that the frame rate is right. There is also a new ffmpegsource import filter you could try out. | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 29 09:35 | ||||||||||||||
Your thank you gratifies me enough, and this is a small thing compared to your work! Yes, police now appears everywhere in France and Canada, and even in DSG ;-) @ Mike99: for your MJPG problem, I think you need to use a MJPG decoder. There is a trial one at www.pegasusimaging.com/picvideomjpeg.htm. user mystery194 had already problems with his Canon Powershot, look in this forum for solution and avs script to test... | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 29 10:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you tin2tin and olivier.
The AVI is from my older digital camera and is 15 frames per sec. I will follow your suggestions & look at the links that you provided. For starters I guess the fame rate needs to be changed. | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 29 12:36 | ||||||||||||||
| Ok, so you need avs for each of your avi videos, to change framerate to PAL or NTSC.
I use AviSynth Batch Scripter to batch all my avis to avs. Then I import avs in DSG. It is important to have a good template for your avs script; if you don't then the mpg output will be incorrect. Here is the template I use for my camera videos (avt extension). I assume this is for a PAL DVD (anyway all dvd players play both ntsc and pal, but if you want NTSC you can change LanczosResize and AssumeFPS parameters). I use the Amplify function because my avis sound lower than mp3 songs imported in DSG: # ----------------------------------------------------------------- # Name : Default ABatchScript Template v2 # Author : Steven van Cauter # Movie : %PATH%\%CLIP%.%EXT% # ----------------------------------------------------------------- # 1) Store parameter in variable named "Clip" Clip="%PATH%\%CLIP%" # 2) Set clip as AviSource AVISource(Clip+".%EXT%") #loadplugin("E:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\FFMpegSource.dll") #FFMpegSource(Clip+".%EXT%") # 3) Resize to PAL square-pixel frame size LanczosResize(720, 576) # 4) Convert frame rate to PAL, also adjust audio ConvertToYUY2() # Required by ConvertFPS. ConvertFPS(29.97) # Convert frame rate to NTSC(p), duration unchanged AssumeFPS(25, 1, TRUE) # 5) Restore audio sample rate to a standard rate #ResampleAudio(48000) SSRC(44100) Amplify(5) | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 29 17:43 | ||||||||||||||
| I got the avi to work, sort of. I found a program called VirtualDub and converted two avi videos to 29.97fps. The original 15fps avi which lasts 12 seconds & also a 30fps which lasts 94 seconds. Both conversions appear to play properly with audio in Windows Media Player.
I was able to add them to DSG, but now the video plays longer then the audio. The audio length appears correct, but then it stops & the video keeps playing. The 12 second video lasts 16 secs and the 94 sec video lasts 192 secs. The original 94 sec avi was a 172,232 KB file size. VirtualDub has selections for different compression codecs. When I used the “ffdshow Video Codec” it created a 11,589 KB avi file which is the version that lasted 192 secs. But I also tried the “Uncompressed RGB/YCbCR” codec and it created a 2,527,479 KB avi file. When using Windows Media Player with this big file the video stuttered a bit and the audio broke up a lot. With DSG it played extremely slow & the audio broke up even more. I checked the new files with MediaInfo. Converting using the “ffdshow Video Codec”, MediaInfo indicated that the video codec was “MPEG-4 Visual (XviD) (Simple@L1).“ and the audio was “PCM (Microsoft) (Little / Unsigned)” Using the “Uncompressed RGB/YCbCR”, MediaInfo indicated the video codec was “RGB” and the audio was “PCM (Microsoft) (Little / Unsigned)”. olivier - I had done all this before before reading your last message. I have been experimenting all afternoon. Before trying another program, any suggestions on which codec in VirtualDub I might try? I realize you do not use this program, but what results should MediaInfo be displaying for the proper codec? Update to avi, I burned a DVD with the short AVI just to see what it would look like on TV. Audio & video both lasted 12 seconds. This was taken at an amusement park & the audio is essentially background noise so there is no lip sync. But the video played fully to completion & ended after playing 12 secs like it was supposed to. But it still takes 16 secs when viewed in DSG. Any suggestions? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 29 23:59 | ||||||||||||||
| DSG is most of the time not able to preview "video"-slides in the right framerate. It's playing the slideshow script from RAM. Don't worry, what matters is how the rendered slideshow looks. And you don't need to make a dvd to check the sync issues. Just make an mpg or flv.
You should give Oliviers script a try. That way you won't loose quality by converting to an intermediate format. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 30 00:15 | ||||||||||||||
| I'll give Oliviers's script a try. I know this is a programming forum, however I'm not a programmer. But I will give it a try. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Sep 30 01:21 | ||||||||||||||
| I installed AviSynth Batch Scripter and am completely lost. There is no help file and I have spent the last hour Googling using different search parameters in order to find a tutorial. But no such luck.
As mentioned I am not a programmer so I am probably in the wrong forum. But DSG does such a great job creating a slide show that I’m willing to take the time to experiment & figure things out. I can type a script in Notepad, but I have no idea what to type. If you can point me to a tutorial or some instructions I would sure appreciate it. Thanks, Mike | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 30 03:42 | ||||||||||||||
| Well to get you started either use Notepad or better AvsP to type in(copy/paste) the code.(In AvsP you can instantly see the video created by your script. And with a lot of helpful features for coding in avisynth)
You have allready installed the latest avisynth(with DSG). You can find the docs in Start/All Programs/Avisynth 2.5/Avisynth documentation. The main Avisynth page is here: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page. There is a nice section on getting started here: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page#New_to_AviSynth_-_start_here But actually the fastest way is to copy Oliviers script into AvsP. And change this "%PATH%\%CLIP%" into where your avi file is located on your harddrive ex. "c:\MyAvi.avi" and hit play. This script will allow you to import you avi file into DSG as a PAL file(25fps). Have you searched this thread for Canon? Because as Olivier mentioned there was another person how needed to import videos from a Canon camera with an avisynth script. I can't remember the result. And btw. the absolutely best forum for avisynth scripting is forum.doom9.org So your first thing is to import a avi file, convert it to the rigth framerate and import it into DSG. When you got that to work, you can start digging into the batcher. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Sep 30 10:32 | ||||||||||||||
| New patch: DVDsGUI_0899RC7.zip
With a media player added to the Project Settings menu. Click the preview button and you'll preview the first selected slide, the transition and the next slide with all border, subtitle, pre-effect, post-effect, background and music as it will look in your rendered slideshow. When using some of the effects and also the animated backgrounds the playback framerate will drop, and there will be stuttering and loss of frames. If you roll the mouse button when previewing, you can flip through the preview frame by frame. (You must have 2 or more slides in your slideshow to be able to use preview function.) In the main window the french translation of the sentence with the duration numbers was too long. I shortened it a bit. Will this be ok?
Anyway I hope you all enjoy the new feature. :)  | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Sep 30 23:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello tin2tin,
Good translation, now you are trilingual! I see in your print screen that there are still english words (Safe area, Border, Safe X, Safe Y, Font). Could you please add these in po/mo files, to have the whole thing translated ? Translations would be: Safe area: Secteur sûr Border: Bordure Safe X: X sûr Safe Y: Y sûr Font: Police (but you already know this one!) In Project settings window, the new feature is nice only if I want to preview; I prefered the other way when it's time to select options like Safe X/Y, Border or Subtitles, as it was displayed in real time. Another thing, before digging in internet: I use EXIF data from my photos to comment the photos in the slideshow. I'd like to do the same thing for videos. Do you know if there is a standard for video data, as there is EXIF standard for photos data ? Thank you! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 01 00:40 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for the translations. There might be a couple more. Updating in Poedit is easy. There is an 'import of pot files' function which will show you the new lines, obsolete ones etc.
WxBasic is build on wxWidgets 2.8.8. In this one there is a bug which makes it impossible to type in values in spinners. There is a 2.8.9 version out and when there will be a build out of wxBasic on that one I will get rid of the Preview button and the player will be updated when a value is changed. That way the safe area stuff etc. will come close to the old way. I newer looked into that kind of data in videofiles. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 01 00:57 | ||||||||||||||
| I went to AviSynth - start here > Getting started and I created their “test.avs” text file. I practiced with their examples using Notepad & Windows Media Player 6.4. I proceeded to try Olivier’s script with the change that you recommended. I also deleted step #5 for now which had to do with the audio. Step #2 I tried with and without the +".%EXT%" as I had difficulty trying to understand what it did. I also tried several variations of step #4 and also removing step #3, but I always got an error message.
MyAvi.avi is a 30fps, 640x480, NTSC file. Script number 1: #1) Store parameter in variable named clip Clip="c:\Temp 2\MyAvi.avi" #2) Set clip as Avisource AVISource(Clip+".%EXT%") # 3) Resize to PAL square-pixel frame size LanczosResize(720, 576) # 4) Convert frame rate to PAL, also adjust audio ConvertToYUY2() # Required by ConvertFPS. ConvertFPS(29.97) # Convert frame rate to NTSC(p), duration unchanged AssumeFPS(25, 1, TRUE) With the +".%EXT%" I got an error message: AVISource auto detect: couldn’t open ‘c:\Temp 2\MyAvi.avi.%EXT%’ Error Code: 2 (C:\Temp 2\test.avs, line 11) Script number 2: #1) Store parameter in variable named clip Clip="c:\Temp 2\MyAvi.avi" 2#) Set clip as Avisource AVISource(Clip) # 3) Resize to PAL square-pixel frame size LanczosResize(720, 576) # 4) Convert frame rate to PAL, also adjust audio ConvertToYUY2() # Required by ConvertFPS. ConvertFPS(29.97) # Convert frame rate to NTSC(p), duration unchanged AssumeFPS(25, 1, TRUE) I got an error message: AVISource: couldn’t locate a decompressor for fourcc mjpg (C:\Temp 2\test.avs, line 11) I also tried AvsP & followed their flash tutorial. I “inserted source”, which was C:\Temp 2\MyAvi.avi, and went to play it and got an error message: AVISource: couldn’t locate a decompressor for fourcc mjpg (New File, line 1) I did read the Canon Powershot posting. While not exact. I thought the script looked similar to Olivier’s. http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-360.html#1755038 It seems that I cannot play what I have let alone convert it and that I need a “decompressor for fourcc mjpg”, which was my original error message. Any suggestions? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 01 01:37 | ||||||||||||||
| +".%EXT%" means extention I guess. You allready have an extention on "c:\Temp 2\MyAvi.avi" so AVISource(Clip+".%EXT%") should be AVISource(Clip). All the % stuff is something the batcher uses to find the file paths to be exchanged - this is not avisynth code.
Reading up on that old Canon post it seems you alternatively could/should try Directshowsource(Clip) instead of avisource. Actually use this:
This will convert you video into PAL 25 fps. And change "Drive:\path\Canon.avi" to "c:\Temp 2\MyAvi.avi". If it still complains try to install one of the to decompressors found here: http://download.videohelp.com/liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl?p=download | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 01 09:02 | ||||||||||||||
| 0.9.0.0 is out!
It's a milestone! Added: Muxman instead of dvdauthor+cygwin. New icons. And an installer change - now you can uncheck Avisynth and Xvid if you allready have them installed. Localization added: (Now is english, french and danish included) You can localize this software by loading the 'DVD slideshow GUI/Locale/en/en.po' in Poedit. Translate it into your language and send me the resulting po and mo file and I'll add it to DSG. Transition preview in Slide Settings menu. Preview in Project settings menu. Updated all menus and most icons. DSG will now adapt your windows look. Internal file loader(should be more Vista friendly). Bugs: Shut down: Kill help Resize images in listctrl correctly. check/uncheck safe area Locale's ',' vs. ntsc. Stop player when hidden. Bugs in Slide Settings fixed Bugs in Animation tool fixed. Get it at the homepage. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 01 17:12 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin and Olivier,
I got my avis to work !! After digging for more info I found that ffdshow has a “Video decoder configuration” and a “VFW configuration”, and that both need the proper settings. Previously I just set the Video Decoder. After checking the box for MJPG in VFW everything works. I’ve been trying to read up on all these programs. From what I understand, AviSynth actually converts or processes the video in real time. And ffdshow provides the proper codec(s) for AviSynth. Is this correct? If I never had a problem in the first place, what codec(s) would AviSynth use for other videos? Or does it always need ffdshow or something similar? It appears that whether I use Notepad, AviSynth Batch Scripter or AvsP, that they all provide the same end result - a text file. That basically one of the programs may make the job of script writing easier, especially if you need a large script. Is this correct? Thanks again, Mike | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 02 03:46 | ||||||||||||||
| There are many ways to skin a cat - and a lot of them will go wrong - especially in the world of PCs.
I guess you could say that avisynth is processing videos in the RAM, but you need a converter(like Hcenc/FFmpeg etc.) to actually convert it into another videoformat. The playback speed is depending on how heavy the process and video are on your hardware(RAM). FFdshow can be useful when working in various codecs, and is handling a lot of codecs in one program, instead of having to install each codec individually. A lot of media players have video decoders included, but this doesn't mean that there is a video decoder installed on your computer for that speciffic format and avisource/directshowsource avisynth commands needs the right decoders in order to import video into avisynth. The ffmpegsource(find it at doom9.org) plugin for avisynth does have decoders included(I think). Code is always just text. :) My fav is AvsP for avisynth scripting. VirtualDub can also be used for that(never done it though myself). The batcher is a way to use avisynth(without actually coding anything) to make a bunch of avisynth scripts for a bunch of files. I'm glad you succeded in importing the avi from your canon cam. What script did you end up with? Welcome to the wonderful world of videoprocessing with avisynth. :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 02 07:48 | ||||||||||||||
| Hmm, I realised that there was a serious bug in 0.9.0.0. It's now fixed and released as 0.9.0.1. Get the full install at the homepage.
Or get the patch to overwrite DVDslideshowGUI.exe in the main folder here: DVDsGUI_0901_patch.zip | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 02 08:46 | ||||||||||||||
| My scripts are real simple so far. The second one is to resize a small 320x240 video.
AVISource("c:\Temp Video\MyAvi.avi") ConvertFPS(29.97) AVISource("c:\Temp Video\MyAvi2.avi") ConvertFPS(29.97) # Resize 320x240 to 640x480 LanczosResize(640, 480) They both work, but I am not sure whether to use AssumeFPS or ConvertFPs. And I have read the following: http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/AssumeFPS Olivier used both. # 4) Convert frame rate to PAL, also adjust audio ConvertToYUY2() # Required by ConvertFPS. ConvertFPS(29.97) # Convert frame rate to NTSC(p), duration unchanged AssumeFPS(25, 1, TRUE) What is the advantage to using both, Convert & Assume? What is the significance of “ConvertToYUY2() # Required by ConvertFPS” since mine worked without it? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 02 09:04 | ||||||||||||||
| ConvertFPS(29.97) # Convert frame rate to NTSC(p), duration unchanged
AssumeFPS(25, 1, TRUE) ... is a mistake I think. It's either or... The difference between AssumeFPS or ConvertFPS is written right there in that link. ConvertToYUY2() is a colorspace change. DVD's are in yv12 colorspace avisynth command: converttoyv12(), audiorate is 48000 and you can see the various ratios in DSG/Project settings. The more avisynth speciffic questions(and non dsg related) you should ask over at doom9. I don't know everything about avisynth :) | ||||||||||||||
| olivier posted 2008 Oct 02 10:48 | ||||||||||||||
| For me, I needed both, as I had to convertfps to NTSC before assumefps to PAL. Mike99, you don't need assumefps if you don't need to output in PAL.
I added ConvertToYUY2 because it was said on a forum to use it before ConvertFPS for DVD. But maybe it is not required... Try it with and without ConvertToYUY2 on a DVD, and tell us... Welcome to the AviSynth scripts world! | ||||||||||||||
| Aliby posted 2008 Oct 03 07:37 | ||||||||||||||
| With v0.9 my Laptop often crashes now if I go into the project settings.
It seems to be related to the Mediaplayer preview that it tries to render on the RHS? I work around it by editing the dsg project file manually. Also when I first installed 0.9 it seemed to work great on the first rendering to iso, except for the fact the red line which is/was a guide for the "safe zone" was hard burned like a frame onto the video. However, every subsequent attempt when I try export it with or without an active background (in this case specifically BackZoomBlur.avs) it just pops up window with the error during the HCenc process stating "vsfilter: Syntax error at line 63!". Then says something about AVISynth sending an error, but it then runs through some stuff. In the end Media Player Classic just says "File not found" as No file is created. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 03 11:44 | ||||||||||||||
| The gradation effects and the animated backgrounds are quite heavy on the system resources, meaning they will take longer to load(seems like a crash when nothing is happening - but you'll have to wait for the to load - don't panic :) ).
If you want to edit a dsg file - then save it first and don't use the file which is used for previewing - that why you get the safe area thing. I really don't recommend doing this.... Vsfilter is a subtitle filter. My guess is that you're using some illigal characters in your subtitles and that somehow make the filter error out. If you're not using any special characters, then try to update vsfilter it's in the bin folder. | ||||||||||||||
| mlcampbe posted 2008 Oct 03 18:19 | ||||||||||||||
| Can someone send me the details on how to do a good "ken burns animation" of a set of photos. I know I have to use the animate button but nothing I try gets a good pan and zoom result for me. For example, if I use MS photo story it creates a smooth gliding transition between photos and at the same time zooms in and out and pans around randomly. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 04 00:05 | ||||||||||||||
| The movement between keypoints is done with spline interpolation. Meaning it will "overshoot". To avoid this add double keys with the same values. One right after the first.
Take a look at how and where the keys are set in the presets. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 04 00:10 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks tin2tin and Olivier,
I apologize for asking so may questions. I did register at the doom9 forum as you suggested, but a new member cannot post for 5 days. Something unusual did occur with DSG. Twice I had the thumbnail image change when adding a video or jpg file to an existing slideshow project. Once I added an avs (or avi, can’t recall which) to the end of a slideshow and the film icon appeared in the middle of the project & over-wrote what was supposed to be there. The file name did not change & if I right clicked on the image I did get what was supposed to be there. Just the thumbnail changed. Another time I was selecting transitions for a jpg in the middle of the project & its thumbnail changed to one of the first jpg images. Again the file name did not change & right clicking did display the correct image. The projects saved correctly in both instances. Could I have inadvertently clicked on something to make this happen? Mike | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 04 01:28 | ||||||||||||||
| If it is possible, try to track a workflow which allways will cause those errors.
In other words if you can repeat it(and I can), then I can try to locate the error. :) | ||||||||||||||
| mlcampbe posted 2008 Oct 04 15:03 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks tin2tin concerning the ken burns effect.
I am still unable to figure out a good set of settings. Looking at http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/KenBurnsClassic.flv this is exactly what I want. Can you provide the animation presets that were used to create that demo? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 04 17:41 | ||||||||||||||
| Well, select one or more slides.
Open the animation settings. Set a key in the beginning, zoom a bit, set a key in the end. Preview. Okay it. Select one or more slides. Open slide settings. Select a negative transition duration(to get the overlap). The included example shows how 'Overlay.avs' as transition in combination with animation works. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 05 02:11 | ||||||||||||||
| I was searching for information & found a comment that you cannot have more than 99 chapters in a single VTS of a DVD. And also that “the latest versions this should be fixed.”
I’m presuming each picture is a chapter. Is this correct? And that the latest DSG can have more than one VTS? What would be a typical maximum number of pictures that can be put a DVD? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 05 04:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Only one, the 99 chapterpoints are divided over the video, so not all slides will have a chapterpoint. The chapterpoints are always at the beginning of a slide. That goes for dvd folders, iso, chapterpoints and gfd export.
As you can read a few posts back Olivier has done a slideshow with a duration of 2 1/2 hours... Actually I don't make slideshows myself... a typical length depends on how long the viewers are able to stay awake. I guess. :roll: | ||||||||||||||
| mnapower posted 2008 Oct 06 00:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Wanting to create a memorial slideshow for a funeral. What I would like to do is use several different backgrounds with the individual's photos overlayed. Is this possible? I would like to have several serene landscapes that will change occasionally, but have several photos change multiple times in front of each background. Please let me know if this is possible or not. Thanks! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 06 01:07 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm not sure if this will work, but try to make a slideshow out of your landscapes(correct length - no safe area - full screen) and save as avs, then use this file as a motion background and make a new slideshow on top of the background. Using avs as background should be lossless - if the errors out(thanks to conflicting variables), render you landscape to avi and use that as background.
NB. as written in a messagebox when using motion backgrounds some transitions will go wrong(black areas), so you will have to carefully select transitions(and previewing) to avoid this. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 06 02:00 | ||||||||||||||
| I don’t want to put anyone to sleep. But if too many pictures are used or if the slideshow runs too long, will it start to suffer a loss in picture quality due to excess compression?
Currently the final displayed pictures look very nice. Right now I’m still experimenting & have only used about 50 jpgs at a time. However I don’t want to get to a point where I may not see the effects of over compression on my TV, but if displayed on a larger screen perhaps a loss in picture quality would be noticed. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 06 02:39 | ||||||||||||||
| The bitrate is the same and is not ajusted to fit a dvd automatically. ImgBurn(or any other burn app) will tell you if your final slideshow is too big to fit a dvd. So if you plan to make slideshows longer than one hour it is advised to use a bit rate calculator and ajust the maxbitrate set in HCenc.ini accordingly.
What I would do is to sparate the slideshow into different parts, render as separate videos and use Gui for dvdauthor to set it up with menus so you can choose what part to see. GFD can ajust and reencode videos to fit a dvd. Old tutorial here. Actually I didn't have the imagination that it would be nessesary to render that long slideshows(like Olivier), because of the sleep factor. :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 06 05:07 | ||||||||||||||
| If you want a bunch of crazy/funny transitions then download these x-rays and add them to the DVD slideshow GUI\Transitions folder, restart DSG and you'll find them under their image names. :D | ||||||||||||||
| Aliby posted 2008 Oct 07 03:41 | ||||||||||||||
Hi Tin2tin
It wasn't hanging, it went blue screen and rebooted! Seems to possibly be a screen card problem? I have a DELL M90 dual core. 13 Gig free disk space, 2G memory, with a Nvidia Quatro FX 2500M (512MB) video card so I wasn't expecting that. It only happens when I go into the new Project settings screen with the new rendering/preview.
Thanks for the context help. I found an equals sign in a subtitle/caption so it ran through and rendered now .... BUT ... 1. I still get the red border on the final DVD even though I created a brand new project and then exported straight away. Never previewed or anything (Aside: having selected DVD.iso output it doesn't make an ISO file, just a folder with the Video_ts Audio_ts subfolders and a whole bunch of temporary files / folders.) 2. With 53 photos, they stop changing after 16 (i.e. photo 16 shows all the time), until the last four or so photos which show at the end. The subtitles and music continue correctly through out. Most of he pictures are around 1.5Mb, so I will reduce their size and see if that helps. Some guys eg. Mike99 are using around 50 and seem to be getting it done OK?
Mike what is your config (background, transitions, photo sizes etc)? I have to get this done by the weekend and am now a little desperate ... I may have to try a video editing suite and insert photos manually ... the background and subtitles are just going to take alot more work. In anticipation :? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 07 04:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Sounds like the ini is totally messed up. Try to delete the file new.ini in the mainfolder, start DSG and make a new project (do not load any old projects the ini will be taken from any file loaded).
If this doesn't solve your problem install the latest(without the most heavy effects), and if this doesn't solve your problem then it's somehow related to the mediaplayer in wxwidgets(coding language) and then it's out of my limits. Are you running Vista? I know you profile settings say xpsp2, but it also says 256 RAM(and that might be too little) | ||||||||||||||
| Aliby posted 2008 Oct 07 07:31 | ||||||||||||||
| Regarding the "stuck" frame I think it may be due to an odd file name (i.e. some program/script think part of the file name is a command). In one attempt now I left the transition to disolve and noticed that over the 5 minute duration of the "stuck" photo it slowly faded to black. I will rename tonight and try again.
OK. I deleted the ini file, Opened DSG, added a few(4) photos and exported to iso. It runs through OK, then the preview of the final clip is shown. No red border, it looks OK (I then delete the temp files, leaving only the folder with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subfolders). If I modify the project properties to change the background etc or I edit a clip properties to modify the transition it seems to add the red border back??? Also, I note that if I open the photo properties to change the transition the A-B transition previews in FULL SCREEN on my other monitor. When I close the properties window the A-B preview stays there. I'll check back here in 2 hrs to see if there are any suggestion, otherwise will give you feedback tommorrow. :wink: | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Oct 07 07:35 | ||||||||||||||
| Let me congratulate you, tin2tin, for the new version. It really is a milestone.
I've run into some troubles with DSG 0.9.0.1 and 0.0.9.2. I've made a project of a slideshow with around 40 seconds duration, thirty something pictures. Initially, everything seemed fine, but I've changed some transitions and then I couldn't render the movie (.mpg) anymore. Avisynth complained about the transitions clips/masks needing to be the same size. Opening other projects also gave me some troubles (!), as if DSG had corrupted itself. So, I've decided to uninstall DSG, Avisynth and Xvid, rebooted, reinstalled 0.9.0.2 and the first project I've opened was the default Example_Animation_Overlay. When I've tryed to export it to mpg, DSG crashed and gave me this error message:
Tin2tin, a few months ago, I've sent some files to your e-mail. If it's still valid, I'll try to send you the temporary AVS, txt and error log that appeared in DSG's folder. I've uninstalled, cleaned the temps folder, reinstalled everything and the same thing happened. Now, having read the previous post, I'm wondering if the new.ini is the culprit. You see, after fresh-installing DSG's latest versions, I usually configure the project settings (safe area, background, etc.) and backup the ini (I'll be installing DSG in lots of other PCs). Sometimes, after reinstalling, I just copy that ini over the default one. Maybe that's the source of some troubles... I'll make some experiments and let you know. In the meantime, maybe the crash files I'll e-mail you will be of some help.[/quote] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 07 07:44 | ||||||||||||||
| It will be helpful if you note what characters make things go wrong. In import and in subtitles.
On the red box - are you sure you got the latest version installed? And don't delete temp files until DSG is closed. On dual screens - try to right click on the player and change the settings for the player. This can't be changed in scripting. @ apap - redownload 0.9.0.2. I fixed that and uploaded under the same name. (The installer adds a b to the version number). | ||||||||||||||
| Aliby posted 2008 Oct 07 11:04 | ||||||||||||||
| As I am not familiar with the script / comand line parameters it is difficult to know what to look for regarding combinations of characters or sysmbols.
In one subtitle I had an "=" and I think that was what the VSfilter errored on I will check the names, but at this stage I think it may be a combination of underscore and number (eg. _500). :oops: I am using 0.900, .... just finished downloading the latest and will try it tonight. Dual screens: I found is a setting for Nvidia card under video playback (ALways play full screen on Screen#) which forces the player's video to the other screen- I have disabled that now. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 07 15:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Aliby,
My latest slideshow has 58 slides and 2 videos taken with a digital still camera. One video is 65 seconds long & the other is 93 seconds. Both are 640x480 pixels, 30fps. The original photos where 5MP jpgs in 4:3 ratio. The actual file sizes vary from about 1500 KB to about 2200 KB. DSG resizes these to 720x480 4:3 NTSC per the Project Settings. I have tried the background_golden, but made my own pure black background so that it blends in with the black pillar box sides when shown on a 16:9 HDTV. I’ve made Safe X = 0 and Safe Y = 15 in order increase the size of the displayed image. I have selected random Transitions for the most part & only changed a few. There is no audio other than what is with the video clips. Hope this answers your questions. Mike | ||||||||||||||
| Aliby posted 2008 Oct 08 03:24 | ||||||||||||||
| I downloaded the latest version (0.902) and hey the red border is gone, but I am most frustrated.
I renamed all me photos to 01.jpg, 02.jpg thru' 55.jpg in case the names were causing scripting problems. I resized all the images so that the largest was around 1.2 Mb Viewing the exported VOB file it finally got past slide 15, but it "froze" the photos and doesn't move past slide 33 now. I can't understand why? Could Memory be an issue? Smalller photos size seems to have helped. I have 2G memory, but I see the HC windows indicates 77Mb allocated ?? Any advice? I think I may have to try split the slideshow into two parts then splice them together using AVIdemux, add background music from Audacity and convert to VOB (SuperC) before burning a DVD (Imageburn) - a mission, but perhaps a short term solution. :cry: | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 08 04:01 | ||||||||||||||
| There is no pc with Windows which are the same. So I have no chance to make sure that DSG will run on any setup. And in the end of the day I only did the GUI part, all the hard work is done by tools I didn't code and therefore know to a certain point.
I did a slideshow with 260 slides on my labtop with only 512 MB ram the other day, so I know it works fine here. Does it run ok when you're previewing your slideshow? If you didn't uninstall the old version before installing the new one I think you should do so. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 08 19:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Previously you mentioned that DSG takes the jpgs and corrects the colors to safe broadcast colors & I understand this. When I play a DSG slideshow on my dvd player & view it on my TV the images appear lighter. The colors appear correct, it’s just that they are too light. This is in comparison to the same photos coming directly from my digital camera via a NTSC output and using the same input on my TV. I get the same results using a component connection from dvd player to TV which I previously calibrated using a DVD test disc.
I can decrease the brightness on the TV & darken the picture. It may need other adjustments, however I cannot display two images at the same time so it is difficult to make a side-by-side comparison. Does the jpg to safe broadcast colors conversion automatically lighten the colors as part of the process? I don’t recall the details, but some time ago I read there was a difference between the North America NTSC black level and the PAL or Japan NTSC standard. Just a thought, is the jpg to safe broadcast colors conversion taking into account the proper black level for the source & the destination? Maybe other people are not experiencing what I am because they are using the PAL system? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 09 00:48 | ||||||||||||||
| Hcenc needs yv12 colorformat. YUV values are not mapped from 0 to 255 (PC range), but a limited range (TV range). This limited range is 16-236 for the luma component and 16-240 for the chroma component of the YUV signal.
On other words max black is higher and max white is lower on a dvd than on a pc. [Edit: If you want to play around with the color settings in avisynth, then export from DSG as .avs and look for the color functions like tweak and coloruvy. And read up on colors in the avisynth docs.] | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 09 15:13 | ||||||||||||||
| I do not know how the conversions take place, but something is making my photos lighter.
I made a pure black background jpg for my slideshow and it displays black when playing a DVD on my TV. I started a project & added this black background jpg as a photo. So I now have a black photo with a black background. I right click on the thumbnail & a Slide Settings window opens & properly displays the image as black. I left click on the image in order to select it. And then click on Project Settings and the image still displays the image as black. However if I click on preview the black jpg photo displays as a dark gray rectangle with a black background border. The conversion is not changing the black background part of the slideshow. Yet it is changing the same exact jpg when it is used as a photo. Since I am not saving as an mpeg video at this point is the HCenc processing even being done? | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 12 15:15 | ||||||||||||||
| I did export one of my projects as an AVS file as you suggested. I did not find anything with tweak or coloruvy functions.
I did find this near the beginning: Try { imgout=ImageSource("C:\Temp Video\color_temp_files\color%06d.ebmp", 0,33, rate) } Catch(err_msg) { imgout=blankclip(1,720,480, fps=29.970).converttoyv12() } There were some colour comments in a section that appeared to deal with subtitles. And a couple ConvertToRGB32() under the “# MaskTransition by stickboy” heading. I have read up on colors in AviSynth. I never wrote a script until a couple of weeks ago so I am really lost. I’m trying to read whatever I can and I understand what you are saying about safe broadcast colors. But I don’t know how a black level of 1 displays on a TV versus a black level of 16. I’m guessing they both display almost the same as there has to be a way to display images with black content, the same way the black background in DSG is displayed. Any help would be appreciated. Mike | ||||||||||||||
| roma247 posted 2008 Oct 12 17:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I have been using DSG for a while and love it. It's also quite wonderful to be able to have questions answered on this forum. Hats off to you. After fussing around with my slideshows for way too long, I finally have used GUI for DVDauthor to compile them and burn them. I'm happy with them, but have a few questions...and I have a feeling they may be addressed by the updates you've done since last I downloaded DSG, which was back in May. I find that the zoom is not as smooth as it could be, particularly at the edges of the photo, which are rather jumpy as it zooms. I also found that there was a fair amount of flicker, especially when the slides are transitioning. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong there. Lastly, since my slideshows are not particularly long, I am wondering whether it is possible to have images that are less compressed? I am finding that some of them are blurred to the point where a fair amount of detail is missing (whereas the originals are quite sharp and clear...), and yet the entire DVD (3 separate slideshows) is only 45 minutes... I wish I could express all of this in more precise terminology, but I am not especially tech-savvy... But the most burning question I have is this: If I uninstall the version of DSG from May and reinstall the latest, will I be able to open these older files in the new version? Last time I had to start over from scratch and I definitely don't want to have to do that. Many thanks, Lisa | ||||||||||||||
| 45tripp posted 2008 Oct 12 23:06 | ||||||||||||||
| bug
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=141789 dvd slideshow refuses input of from avisynth with assumefps(30000,1001) and other variants, will only take assumefps(29.97) | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 13 20:18 | ||||||||||||||
| I tried another experiment. I took a solid black movie with my Canon digital camera. Or at least as black as it will go.
I started a new project using a pure black background and added a pure black JPG as a photo & the black movie. I previewed the project in DSG. The pure black photo displays as dark gray against the black background, just as it did before. But the black AVI movie displays almost pure black. Not quite matching the pure black border, but significantly darker than the dark gray photo. And this may be as dark of a movie that the digital camera can take. It appears that only JPG photos are affected. Not the JPG background & most likely not AVIs. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 15 11:37 | ||||||||||||||
| After more than a month of work(some days with 18 hours of coding) without any income, I really, really need to focus on other things in my life than DVD slideshow GUI, so there might not be any support(from me) and updates for a while.
Good luck and have fun. :) Tin2tin | ||||||||||||||
| mlcampbe posted 2008 Oct 17 10:13 | ||||||||||||||
| Is it possible to use a different animation effect for individual slides or do all slides in the slideshow have to use the same settings? From what I can tell all use the same setting. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Oct 23 12:35 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi, guys. I'm having some problems, maybe someone can help?
One of my slideshows doesn't render with the background music. It has around 118 pictures, resized to 720x576 pixels (actually, somewhat smaller in the vertical dimension) and lasts about 2 minutes and 54 seconds. I add the music (both the original MP3 and a copy in WAV exported from Audacity) and nothing seems to happen:
I've also tryed updating the soundout.dll (don't recall the exact filename) to 1.1.1 (DSG comes with a previous version) but that doesn't change a thing. Another question: DSG 0.9.0.6 doesn't load projects saved in earlier versions. I've changed the version number in the project file to 0.905, as this is the version identification used in current versions. When I load the «updated» project file, DSG complains about a missing transition, but I've checked the project file and I'm only using Dissolve and FF_RadialBlur, and these transition haven't changed in the lates versions (I've checked). I have rebuilt the project, but would appreciate some tips in avoiding this tedious task. Thanks in advance and, once again, congratulations to tin2tin. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 23 17:47 | ||||||||||||||
| I wish I could answer some questions, but I need help too. I have never tried animations or sound. Hopefully tin2tin will find a bit of time to check in here. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Oct 24 17:43 | ||||||||||||||
OK, after a bit of experimenting, here's what I've found:
This doesn't explain why the original MP3 wasn't accepted by DSG, but it seems that DSG doesn't import mono WAVs (mono MP3s, also?). Regarding a solution to update projects saved in earlier versions of DSG, I haven't found one yet (and the error message about the transitions really puzzles me). | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 26 12:16 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm sorry, but as I wrote I will not be able to offer a lot of support from now on. My time is limited, and I should really be doing something else...
However I've updated DSG again hopeing, that I'm getting closer to a somewhat stable version. In case people don't read up on the old posts - let me post this again:
Get the update at the homepage. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 27 05:51 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin,
I understand your situation & really like your program & appreciate all your help & don't mean to bother you. As previously mentioned, a black jpg border displays properly as black (or is perceived as real black) but when used as a slide the same black jpg displays as dark gray. Somehow the jpgs are processed differently. I would not mind looking to see what affects this, but have no idea what to look for in the program even if you gave me permission to do so. If you ever find you have nothing to do some day, could you please make this one of the items to look into? Sincerely, Mike | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 27 06:26 | ||||||||||||||
| Images are converted into tv safe colors(Blacklevel 16 and up). This is not a bug.
There must be a difference between the level of black in the background and in the images, since animated backgrounds are keyed into black(under the blacklevel of 16), or else the background will make holes in the images. All slideshows are treated this way, it doesn't matter if you are using animated background or not or whatever format you're exporting to. All exported slideshows(in what ever format should be within the tv safe colors - this program is mainly for DVD authoring - the rest of the export options are just an extra service), and if there is a difference between the background and the images, it might be that the background isn't in tv safe colors, but correcting it means that the background will be just as grey as the images... however on a normal tv everything under a blacklevel of 16 is not allowed and come out as the same black. In the end of the day DSG is just an interface to produce an avisynth script. And when exporting to avs you can change everything yourself including convering the color range back to pc colors. If you want to change the colorrange with avisynth like that please consult the avisynth manual(which you should know about by now). | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 27 15:37 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin,
I understand what you are saying about having safe colors & I have read some material regarding it. Maybe a black level 16 is not true black, but it looks very black. I am using the same exact black jpg file for background & slide image and the two display differently, yet they are both safe colors. If I watch a TV program or DVD that has black near the edges, it blends in with the black letterbox or pillar box bars surrounding the picture on my 16:9 TV. If I watch a 4:3 slideshow with a black slide picture and a black border, the border blends in with the black pillar boxes but the picture is dark gray. Safe color black for the picture should be the same as safe color black for the border and the broadcast or DVD picture. I am not trying to be difficult, but the TV can display what is perceived to be black from a broadcast signal or a commercial DVD. And the slideshow black border matches this, or appears to. But the slideshow picture itself is dark gray. Put another way, my TV can display a broadcast picture of a black auto but the slideshow cannot. Therefore I would have to think that the black safe color border is correct. You mention when exporting to avs I can change everything myself. But how do I get at the scripts? I presume then that the jpg pictures are converted into an avs file before they are burned to a DVD. However I do not know that this is happening because I do not know what is going on inside the program. I am not a programmer & have no idea how to even look at the scripts. If I did want to experiment with colors how do I access the scripts in order to change them? Again I really appreciate all your time & help and the need for safe colors. I just don’t understand why what is safe for the background is not safe for the slide picture. Mike | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Oct 29 19:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry for not posting sooner, but life got in the way...
I hadn't the chance to use DSG 0.9.0.7 but, as far as I can tell, it should not be difficult to update project files created before 0.9.0.5.
You'll end up with something like:
That should do it. Please correct me if I'm wrong (I'm posting at the end of a very busy work day, so, errors are more likely to happen). | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 30 00:00 | ||||||||||||||
| apap,
I did try version 0.9.0.7, but went back to version .8.9.9 RC6 so that I could continue work on my existing slideshows. When I’m done with my current project I’ll go back to a newer version & try your fix. I’m curious though, how did you ever come up with adding 2, 64 and 48? What’s holding me up is the black level situation as I have described. Have you noticed that your slides are a bit lighter than they should be? Try a pure black jpg for the picture and also for the background & you will see what I mean. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Oct 30 14:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Mike,
to figure out those values needed to update older DSG's project files, I just looked at two identical project files (with only a couple of slides) that I made with both an old and a recent version of DSG. Almost all of my slideshows are being displayed in a cheap LCD monitor and in a (also very modest) LCD videoprojector. That prevents me from making any comments on the levels of colors or luminance. In MediaPlayer Classic, the slideshows seem a little lighter and softer (less «jaggies») than in VLC Media Player. I did, very recently, watch one of my slideshows in a decent CRT TV. I was very pleased with the image quality but there seemed to be a somewhat lighter then I'd expected black background in the transition between 2 slideshows (I had several in the same CD). However, that should be the DVD player's fault. Notice that I had no images that were prone to show that difference in black levels, and I usually go for a «no-safe border» in order to fill up all the TV screen, even risking some cropping at the borders. This would probably mask any difference in the black levels between the foregound and the background. I understand perfectly the «safe-levels» processing to ensure optimal TV viewing and have no explanation for the issue you reported. Maybe in the next days I can find some time to try your experiment and check it out for myself. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Oct 31 02:37 | ||||||||||||||
| apap,
I agree, the image quality is extremely good. I've experimented with the safe area & currently am working with a safey setting of 15. I adjusted my TV & centered the picture so I don't have a problem. But the 15 gives me a little room at the top & bottom just in case I show the slideshow on someone else's TV. I use a black background so that the it blends in with the black pillar box bars on my 16:9 HDTV. I feel the black background border is correct because it matches the black areas of both broadcast and commercial DVD images. I just don't know how to change the black level of the displayed slide image. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 31 03:47 | ||||||||||||||
| In the 0.9.0.7 I see no difference between a black image and a black background.
If you want computer levels: http://avisynth.org/Levels. Export to .avs and add this line to the end of the script:
And run the script in an avisynth encoder of your choice. Are you sure you ajusted to tv set properly? Is the brightness/contrast is set correctly? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Oct 31 07:01 | ||||||||||||||
| If you want more greyscale transitions, then you can find some very nice ones here: http://assistcg.com/index.php/video/transitions.html. Click on the images to get a bigger size, right click to save the image, and save it into the DVD slideshow GUI/Transitions folder and restart DSG. You'll now find the new transitions under the names of the image files. | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Oct 31 18:25 | ||||||||||||||
| Mike,
I believe that, in 16:9 TV sets, when displaying 4:3 images, the vertical black bars are the result of cutting off the image signal to those parts of the screen. In the central part of the screen, the black level is the result of the input signal and the brightness level. So, if the brightness level is a bit over the ideal setting, the darker (black) parts of any displayed picture will actually be a very dark gray (almost black, but not pure black). I don't know nothing about your TV setup and I'm not saying you don't have a point, I'm just looking for additional possible explanations, since tin2tin himself found no problem with 0.9.0.7. (I haven't got the chance to do any tests.) | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 01 04:01 | ||||||||||||||
| I have a 16:9 TV and black pillar bars match black letterbox bars match black NTSC video titles match DSG black border. The only thing that displays different is black within a slide. I played a 4:3 DVD that had a black “Touchstone Pictures” opening title & it matches the black pillar box side bars on the TV and I have to presume the DVD is NTSC safe color compliant.
I did go over the TV settings again using a calibration DVD and my black, grays & white look OK. If the brightness/black level was way off then I would think black titles & other video images would also be too light. However this is not the case and the black on the DVD calibration disc does match my pillar bars. I reinstalled DSG 0.9.0.7. I also re-installed AviSynth 2.5 and Xvid to make sure everything was up to date. I then burned a DVD with a couple black slides & a black border. The black slides still show as dark gray & the border still shows as black. This is whether I preview the slideshow on my computer or play the burned DVD on a DVD player & view on the TV. tin2tin, You state that you saw no difference when you viewed black with black. Was this using a TV, the DSG preview function or other software? I mention this because when I view the DVD using PowerDVD, depending on the Video Color Profile, it makes a difference whether I can see a difference or not. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 01 04:03 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin,
I did export a few slideshows to .avs & added ColorYUV(levels="TV->PC") as you suggested. I played back using Windows Media Player 6.4 and the added line does make a difference. I did look at the .avs scripts & noticed the section “Import of background image” had no scripts regarding color. Further down I saw a lot of “ConvertToRGB32()” and items like “0, 1, 255”. I tried playing around with some of these settings, but nothing seemed to make a difference, other than not working at all. I do want to use safe broadcast colors. And I’m just guessing that black with any value from 1 to 16 displays the same, or about the same, on a TV. I was trying to find out more about this & came across the following: “All video stored on modern discs….with a range of 16-235. But, the content is mastered such that 0-255 is present….This entire range is then compressed into the 16-235 range….When you play that back on a system set to 16-235, you get all the information as it was intended with no gaps. If you mismatch and play back with RGB (0-255) settings, you'll clip off the black and white levels and black will look "dark gray".” Could the slide .jpg images possibly be getting processed twice? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 02 01:57 | ||||||||||||||
| The 0-255 is no good on some tv/dvd set-ups and will make video come out like this: http://forum.videohelp.com/images/guides/p1806445/cimg1685.jpg.
This is why the range is limited to 16-235. DSG is doing what it's supposed to do. If you want something else, I've allready suggested a way for you to expand the colorrange back to PC colors. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 02 04:28 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin,
I do want to use safe TV colors because I do not want any problems as you have shown. But I still do not understand why the safe black for a slide image is lighter than the safe black for a border. My wife and two friends said they too can see the difference, so it is not just me. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 02 08:29 | ||||||||||||||
| And you are using 0.9.0.7 and have no pre- and post effects selected(under Presets)...? | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 02 23:10 | ||||||||||||||
I am using 0.9.0.7 and do not have any pre or post effects selected. I just watched some broadcast TV. A lot of commercials are 4:3 and frequently have black content and black borders. This black matches & blends in with the black pillar bars on the 16:9 TV. I have to presume the TV networks are using safe colors. A DSG black background border also blends in & matches the pillar bars, but not a black slide image. I also tried red, green & blue slides on respective red, green & blue backgrounds. The slides do not match their backgrounds. The difference is more subtle than when using black, but there is a difference. I'm going to take some of my DSG DVDs to a friends house & see what they look like on another TV. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 03 06:54 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Mike99
After about 40 posts like this... I believe that this is the only solution for you: http://www.codejam.com/. Sorry mate! | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 04 02:43 | ||||||||||||||
How do I check if my original .jpg photos are using PC colors or TV colors? If I want to burn the .avs file to a DVD, what software do you recommend? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 04 03:14 | ||||||||||||||
@Mike99
Please read these forum rules:
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| oakjon posted 2008 Nov 06 16:20 | ||||||||||||||
| I used the program and made 3 different DVD slide shows. Everthing worked like a charm, and played on 3 different stand alone dvd players. Yesterday I was making some more, and after 5+ tries, I had 1 success. I tried exporting as .iso. It will play in windvd5, but not in dvd shrink or others. In dvd shrink it says "Invalid DVD Navigation Structure".
If I do "Burn DVD" in GFS it will burn the proper folders, and .IFO, .VOB, etc, but will not play in dvd player. If I try to open in dvd shrink it says "Failed to open....\VIDEO_TS.IFO". The folder GFS created has "VTS_01_0.IFO". When I play the working dvd in windvd it says "DVD-Video". When I play any of the others is says "Mpeg". I did not receive any error messages while creating any of the disks, either good or bad. Tried different media- no luck. I have created fresh projects-no luck. Uninstalled and re-installed program- no luck. I really like the program, but am really stumped as to why it worked before and now it won't. I have read all the posts in this topic but have not found anything pertaing to my problem. I'm not doing any advanced stuff that the program is capable of, so I think I just goofed on something but don't know what. I know the author is busy with life, so thought a user might have an answer. Sorry 'bout the length. Jon OOPS- Please substitute "DSG" for "GSF"-sorry! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 07 02:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Are you using the latest version 0.9.0.7(b)?
(Previous version had an authoring bug when duration wasn't 100) If you are using this version, open the file 'c:\muxman.log' in notepad and see if it writes anything meaningful about errors. Another reason could be that the rendered mpg isn't as long as it should be because you're out of harddisk-space/RAM when rendering. So keep an eye on the free harddiskspace(on DSG drive and the drive you're exporting to) and if you're out of RAM(Ctrl+alt+del). | ||||||||||||||
| oakjon posted 2008 Nov 07 09:40 | ||||||||||||||
| Good Morning Sir! Thanks for your reply. I am using the newest version (b). I have an Athlon 64 300+ with 512 mem. I redownloaded and reinstalled. I have 49GB space free on the hard drive. I haven't done the memory check while running yet. Tried burning one after fresh reboot. Didn't work.
Don't know what to look for in muxman.log, except at the end it says: SeqEnd at 2165639C. Bytes remaining in buffer = 0. Bitrate - avg: 7347682, min: 3077114 (lba 255369), max: 8151080 (lba 126963). Shortest GOP has 8 fields, longest GOP has 30 fields. Fields: 39334, VOBU: 1310, Sectors: 294294. Reference to non-existant scene "Segment_1_scn97" from PGC "VTS01_TTL01_PGC1" This was ater doing an export as "all" I really like the program as it was "idiot proof" when I did the first 3 that worked, so thinking there is something I am doing wrong or some background file that is borked. Again, it worked wonderfully at first. My testing is being done with 4 different projects, even starting from scratch on one. 110 slides in project. Don't know if it means anything, but when I open the project setting window, the left pane is smooched. My monitor is set for 1024 X 768. I tried other settings but didn't change. Jon | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 07 11:26 | ||||||||||||||
| It might be a bug when authoring more that 97 slides(chapterpoint error). Both .iso export and dvd folders export will be affected by this.
I don't know when I'll be able to work on DSG again. So until I get this fixed, export(if more that 97 slides) as .gfd and let Gui for DVDauthor handle the autoring(and you'll get nice menus on top of that). | ||||||||||||||
| oakjon posted 2008 Nov 07 11:46 | ||||||||||||||
| I understand your time limitations. If you are like me, I am working on my second million. ( I gave up on the first) Thanks for the help. I was able to do it with GUI for Muxman. (New GIUforDVD author, I guess-Ver.1.07) Then I used dvd shrink to remove the menus and such. They are nice though. I needed a simple presentation. I will keep working on the other. It has to be something I am doing 'cause it worked so great at first.
My other projects were around 115 slides and worked fine. Thanks again, Jon | ||||||||||||||
| apap posted 2008 Nov 13 13:58 | ||||||||||||||
I've just started with DSG 0.908. For those interested in using older project files:
I had one issue with a slideshow with a animation (Ken Burns effect): rendering, Avisynth (through HCenc) complained abou the image being to small to resize (it isn't). At first, I thought it was a DPI issue, but I had to open the animation settings dialog, cleared the animation, and then reload my preset animation effect. Initially, the image was beeing displayed really small - I'm guessing 0.908 somehow has a different way of dealing with the position/zoom settings in animations? | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 14 02:16 | ||||||||||||||
| apap,
Thanks for the information on how to use older project files. I wonder why the files are made incompatible. | ||||||||||||||
| dread posted 2008 Nov 14 13:09 | ||||||||||||||
| Was wondering if there was a way to not choose any transition. Only thing I want is like what Windows Movie Maker makes. | ||||||||||||||
| tit4tat posted 2008 Nov 14 15:11 | ||||||||||||||
| Great software! The problem I have is when I click Project Settings... part of the window is off the screen. Cannot see all of the options available and cannot downsize the window. Anyone have a fix? Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 14 19:13 | ||||||||||||||
I had this problem too. Increasing the screen resolution before opening the program solved the problem for me. Try going to the next setting. You can then resize the Project window a bit & then go back to your original resolution & the options may still be visible. Depends on how much you shrank the window & the resolutions you are using. For me, the resized Project window stays in effect until I close out the project. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 14 19:19 | ||||||||||||||
You made me think about about that. I was going to say try reducing the transition setting. I think there is a minimum required value of 5. I looked through the transitions & found "Cut" which sounded like it might do the job & it does. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 15 00:15 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks for the information. I added the .908 and the other lines you previously mentioned. My old project loaded, but I received a lot of messages that transitions were missing. I kept clicking OK and the new project has a lot of the default "dissolve" transitions. I looked at some that it said were missing, but they do exist in .0908. Do you know of any way to retain the originals without having to re-enter them? | ||||||||||||||
| dread posted 2008 Nov 15 07:15 | ||||||||||||||
Thank you so much just helped me lots ty ty ty. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 15 09:19 | ||||||||||||||
This is absolutely not advised to to this... if the allowed the version number has been changed. There is a reason for this. Meaning that the structure or data positions have been changed, and just changing the allowed version number will cause errors, instability and crashes... DSG has not reached a stable version 1.0 yet and untill then, projects saved in old versions might not be usable in the latest version. | ||||||||||||||
| dread posted 2008 Nov 15 16:18 | ||||||||||||||
| I see the 2 different durations but can you set the time on how long you want each slide to be displayed? Like slide 1 20 seconds, slide 2 30 seconds etc... | ||||||||||||||
| tit4tat posted 2008 Nov 15 16:54 | ||||||||||||||
Thanks Mike, that did the trick! | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 16 02:38 | ||||||||||||||
The first duration is for the slide & the second is for the transition. I thought I read somewhere that the number, for example 100, stood for the number of frames. With NTSC that would be slightly more than 3 seconds & with PAL 4 seconds. You can change them individually or highlight a group of slides & change all of them. | ||||||||||||||
| dread posted 2008 Nov 16 07:14 | ||||||||||||||
Oh I think I see now 100 frames divided by 29.97 for NTSC. The longest you can set the duration for is 1000 so that would be 33 seconds. That should be in the FAQ in my opinion. Unless I am the only one that didn't know that lol. | ||||||||||||||
| dread posted 2008 Nov 16 09:35 | ||||||||||||||
| I have a suggestion make the duration longer than 1000. Unlimited if possible so we can set however long we want it. If unlimited cannot be done then for like 3 mins thats like 6000 well 5394.6 to be exact. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 16 19:06 | ||||||||||||||
3 mins is a long time for someone to look at a slide. You could also just Pause your DVD player for as long as you want. | ||||||||||||||
| aukc posted 2008 Nov 16 20:50 | ||||||||||||||
| HI,
Thank you for the great program. I downloaded DVDSlideShowGUI. It was easy to use but I can't make a simple slide-show. I hope someone can point me to the right path. 1. I don't want transition effects, that is one picture after the specified display duration should go to the next immediately. 2. I want attach a wave file to every picture so as to include voice narration for each slide. Can the above be done with DVDSlideShowGUI? Thanks. KC AU | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 17 01:35 | ||||||||||||||
Regarding #1, try using the "Cut" transition. Regarding #2, hopefully someone else can answer as I have never added sound to a slideshow. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Nov 17 03:48 | ||||||||||||||
| @ aukc: DSG is not really made for sound in sync. There is no way of adding sound to individual slides. A workaround could be saving each slide with sound as avi in some other program(maybe MS Movie Maker can do that?). And then import the avis as slides into the slideshow.
Alternatively you can make up a slideshow and use MS Movie Maker to add sync sounds by following this tutorial: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic352601.html#1858882 @ dread: You should take a look at what .gfd export from DSG can do for you. (DVD with remote controlled advancement of slides). There's a is an example video in the DSG homepage and theres a video tutorial on how-to... at the tutorial page. [BTW. I would prefer that this thread would stay a DVD slideshow GUI bugs and development only thread. And support/usage/how to was dealt with in ex. the videohelp/DVD Authoring thread. Thanks.] | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 17 13:50 | ||||||||||||||
| Project Settings Not Saved -- version 0.9.0.8
I saved a project & later on went back, opened it & burned a DVD. But it did not play in my stand alone DVD player. I tried again. After clicking on burn a DVD I noticed the slideshow time was 00:15:39 instead of the 00:13:03 when I was working on it. I could not cancel the burn from the DSG main screen. When it got to the HCenc process the encoding setting resolution was 720 x 576, not 720 x 480. Went back & the Project Settings indicated NTSC 4:3, but obviously was not. I changed to NTSC 16:9 and then back to NTSC 4:3. The time now displayed 00:13:03. I re-saved the project, closed DSG & then re-opened it. Opened the project again and the time was back to 00:15:39, yet Project Settings indicated NTSC 4:3. I had to toggle the settings again in order for the time to display 00:13:03. At that point I was then able to burn a DVD in the correct format. I even saved the project again after I burned a proper NTSC disc, but when I open it the time is 00:15:39 PAL time, yet the settings show NTSC 4:3. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 17 14:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Aspect Ratio Incorrect -- Versions 0.9.8.0 and 0.8.9.9 RC6
I do not have too many vertical photos so it took me a while to notice this. But they are too skinny. So I measured the vertical TV images and they are about 1.45:1. I then measured the horizontal images and they are about 1.22:1. In both cases they are about 9% too narrow. All the JPG pictures used were 2048 x 1536 pixels, which is 4:3. Project Settings are NTSC 720x480 4:3. | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Nov 26 14:39 | ||||||||||||||
| Aspect Ratio - update
I thought I would check a couple things. If I "preview" the slideshow on my PC monitor and measure the images they are 1.33:1. If I view the burned DVD on my monitor they are compressed horizontally as described above when measured on the TV. If I save the slideshow as a .avs file & play it back it too is compressed. | ||||||||||||||
| hyperman posted 2008 Dec 02 11:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Project Settings Not Saved -- version 0.9.0.9
No matter what I do, when I open project settings and make any changes or many changes, then hit OKAY it does nothing. I've closed it and reopened, only to find all the default settings back. I cannot make a project this way, its always in pal with 25 second transitions, and won't save any changes. Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong or if this is a bug. Thanks, other than that I think its a GREAT program! UPDATE: Ok, weird, i saved my project then reopened and opened project settings and they were able to save, guess it was a glitch, thanks for your great work! | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Dec 05 06:31 | ||||||||||||||
| Aspect Ratio -
Has anyone else noticed any compressed images? I don't know if it happens with all the Project Settings, but it does compress when using NTSC 4:3. I took some original 16:9 pictures & did a slideshow using NTSC 16:9 and the images appear proper. I did not try any PAL formats because I cannot play them on my TV. It may be a 4:3 ratio issue or just a NTSC 4:3 problem. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Dec 05 08:06 | ||||||||||||||
| A workaround: To make y value 9% wider save this script as 'Mike99_Ratio.avs' in the 'Posteffects' folder, restart DSG and add the new 'Mike99_Ratio.avs' PostEffect under Presets/Postprocess(slideshow).
It will stretch slideshow y 9% and crop the sides to fit DVD accepted video y size(720).
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| Mike99 posted 2008 Dec 07 00:25 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin,
Thanks for the workaround. Mike | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2008 Dec 07 09:32 | ||||||||||||||
| I have no way of testing NTSC. Does it look as it should for you now? | ||||||||||||||
| Mike99 posted 2008 Dec 07 23:04 | ||||||||||||||
| The script you provided works very well. Thank you.
Measuring off my TV, a horizontal 4:3 image is about 1.32:1 (versus 1.33:1) and a 3:4 vertical image is about 0.74:1 (versus 0.75:1, the reciprocal of 1.33:1). Obviously there could be some error in my measuring or non linearity in the TV display. So it appears the script does make the final image 1.33:1. I did get the same results measuring off my PC monitor while playing the DVD using PowerDVD, but it is more difficult to be somewhat accurate due to the smaller screen size. I also did a PAL slideshow & played the DVD on my PC using PowerDVD, but again more difficult to measure. I did NOT use the 9% width expansion script. A horizontal 4:3 image is about 1.42:1 (versus 1.33:1) and a 3:4 vertical image is about 0.74:1 (versus 0.80:1, the reciprocal of 1.33:1). This is about 7% too wide. The post-processing does work. Since the image is already resized, how does the multiple resizing or rescaling affect the image quality? | ||||||||||||||
| Hrothgar posted 2009 Mar 10 20:37 | ||||||||||||||
| I appreciate the efforts that have been put into making the dvd slideshow gui. I sincerely want to use it and have been trying to. Here is my story.
I downloaded and installed the latest version, 0.9.1.0 I found that I can't change the presets and make a .dsg settings file. Something is wrong with the "project settings" window. 1. In start up the first "project settings" window show an "effect".. button in the upper left side below the safe settings. When I move the cursor over this button it immediately and automatically changes to "background".... So I can not change and settings. 2. In addition, I can not get this window into the background and jump to other non related windows, and have to delete it to get back to normal operation. I have cygwin1.dll already, but I don't think having the the gui installed one is the cause. I can at least go on to complete my slide show, I believe, If you would kindly a.) tell me how to edit the "new.ini" file to change from "PAL 720x576...etc" to "NTSC 720 x 480...29.97.." and I'll save the newly created file as a project file " <name>.dsg" Alternatively, is there any keystroke commands to [apply] settings in a project setting window. This may work. I am terribly sorry to bother you, but would greatly appreaciate your assistance. Regards, Hrothgar ps: see openoffice .odt file to see screen images of the "project settings" window and how it morphs. dvd_slideshow_project_settings_window.odt | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Mar 11 04:40 | ||||||||||||||
Hmm, that looks strange. If you compare your screendump with this, you'll notice that the font size is different. In your version it's too big and as a concequence there of the interface comes out wrong.
As far as I know the font size for the GUI is taken from your OS. If you OS is XP I wonder why the buttons have the old squared look - is this something you set as your XP look? And on the same note did you set you OS font to extra big? In the main DVD slideshow GUI folder there is a file called 'DVDslideshowGUI.exe.manifest' this file tells DSG to use the look from your OS - try to rename that file to something else and restart DSG. Now DSG shouldn't try to adapt your OS look. If there still is a problem I imagine that it has something to do with a japanese OS - but I'm really out of my limits here... On the .ini - its the 3. line from the top which sets the ratio/fps 0: Pal 1: Ntsc 2: Pal 16:9 3: Ntsc 16:9 Let me know how things turn out for you. | ||||||||||||||
| Lawbringer posted 2009 Mar 11 12:08 | ||||||||||||||
| Are there any plans to support 1280x720 or 1920x1080 resolutions for slideshows?
I've got a 10 megapixel camera and want to be able to make a slideshow that doesn't resize the photos down to DVD resolution. Would it be possible to add a project setting of HD res, and only do AVS export if that option is selected? | ||||||||||||||
| Lawbringer posted 2009 Mar 11 14:48 | ||||||||||||||
| I exported a slideshow as an AVS script, and changed all of the height and width values to their HD counterparts. However, when I encoded the AVS, it still showed up as 720x480. Am I missing something, or is DSG forcing the dimensions somewhere outside of the script? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Mar 11 15:19 | ||||||||||||||
| http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-390.html#1805513 | ||||||||||||||
| Lawbringer posted 2009 Mar 11 20:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you for the link and the suggestion.
However, this portion doesn't work: "Just select all slides, open animation, add a key at the begining and at the end of the animation slide(you don't have to move the image) and okay it. " I can do this for each individual slide, one at a time, but if I select multiple and try to add the key, I get the following popup: "Animation can only be added to images with the same size as the first image of the selection" So I have to do this step for every single slide, which can be very cumbersome, especially for large slideshows. Is there any way you could add a "use original picture" or "animate all" feature? | ||||||||||||||
| Hrothgar posted 2009 Mar 11 21:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you for the prompt response regarding my problem.
> .....If you compare your screendump with this, you'll notice that the font size is >different. In your version it's too big and as a concequence there of the interface >comes out wrong. >..... If you OS is XP I wonder why the buttons have the old squared look - is this > something you set as your XP .... I set the theme up as classic, so I suppose this is why. > And on the same note did you set you OS font to extra big? My fonts are set to "standard". I played around with the desktop/graphical utility settings via "control panel -> graphical...." > In the main.....]DVD slideshow GUI[/url] folder there is a file called > 'DVDslideshowGUI.exe.manifest' this file tells ....to use the look from your OS - try > to rename that file to something else and restart DSG. Now DSG shouldn't try to > adapt your OS look. I tried this nd it did not work. I then went back to the desktop graphical settings and then into an advanced panel and changed the "dpi" setting from 120 to "standard 96 dpi" and this fixed the problem. >On the .ini - its the 3. line from the top which sets the ratio/fps >0: Pal >1: Ntsc >2: Pal 16:9 >3: Ntsc 16:9 Great information! THanks. > Let me know how things turn out for you. Problem solved. Thanks for giving me the font oversize clue. Regards, Hrothgar | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Mar 12 04:38 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Hrothgar
Happy to hear you solved it. @ Lawbringer You'll only have to do it once for each size. As that messagebox says, the fist selected slide is used for the animation and all selected slides with that size will get the animation values. How many sizes do you actually have? This is a workaround do to something DSG is not intented to do. This will not be added as a feature. I do not have any HD/BluRay hardware(TV/burner/player ect.) so I can't test it and on top of that I've allready spend too much time on coding DSG as it is... :nosmile: What would your workflow be if you had a correct sized avs script? | ||||||||||||||
| Lawbringer posted 2009 Mar 12 08:03 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
I wrote a little tool (intend to share it once it's a bit more stable) that takes the AVS script generated by DSG (original files MUST be used, which is why I asked about the animation/use-original-file enhancement), performs the changes you suggested earlier (as well as a couple of others I found through trial-and-error, mostly to do with centering the slide) and spits it back out (in a different file). Then I run x264 Encoder on the generated script and turn it into an MKV, which can be muxed into a BD-compliant m2ts (or whatever one might want) with tsMuxeR The beautiful thing is, the original script generated by DSG can be used with HcEnc or QuEnc, or anything else that your awesome tool allows. In the meantime, I'll try to figure out what was going on with the image sizes. Pretty sure they're all the same size/dimensions, but will double-check. Also, want to take this opportunity to thank you for DSG. I've been using it for years now, and still have barely scratched the surface of what it can do. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Mar 12 08:34 | ||||||||||||||
| I see that both x264 Encoder and tsMuxeR are commandline tools. So getting DSG to produce BD-compliant files should be possible. Adding additional videosizes to DSG is a major rewrite of the DSG code. I don't want any other options changed than the ratio pull-down-ui and the export options - the rest should be out of the box. I really don't know anything about BD - how many formats should be supported? And is it possible to go from an avs file to a burned BD (DVD w. ImgBurn) disk?
I guess that if I should add this to DSG, I would need a complete and detailed walktrough, because I have no possibilities to test anything without having the equipment myself... | ||||||||||||||
| Lawbringer posted 2009 Mar 12 10:35 | ||||||||||||||
| I would say that if you do decide to add the BD-compliant settings, you'd need to support two resolutions - 1280x720 (720p) and 1920x1080 (1080p) at 23.976fps, with Level set to 4.1 (it's an H264 setting - 4.1 is the one that's compliant with BD players)
I can PM you with more details, if you like, so that I'm not clogging up the thread | ||||||||||||||
| Lawbringer posted 2009 Mar 13 10:42 | ||||||||||||||
| OK, some more info on the picture dimensions:
- I have portrait and landscape photos in my slideshow: landscape ones are 3072x2304 and portrait ones are reversed, 2304x3072. If I select only portrait or only landscape photos and set the keys in Animation, it gets applied to all of them. However, if I have some portrait and some landscape in my selection, the animation is applied only to the first slide, and any of the consecutive slides that are of the same dimension (orientation). As soon as it gets to a photo with different dimensions, it stops there, and the animation is not applied to any of the rest. Using DSG 0.9.1.0, Vista x64 | ||||||||||||||
| ZQX posted 2009 Apr 26 07:10 | ||||||||||||||
| I just successfully completed a 300+ photo slideshow with random transitions and music. This software is great! Worked like a breeze!
HOWEVER... I noticed I had one or two duplicate slides so I went back and fixed up my pics and started from scratch again. And NOW it simply won't work for me like the first time! When I export, it does its thing, and then HC pops up with an error message, something like "Error with AVS script / unable to load loop function" or some such (HC quickly closes so it's hard to catch the exact message). [EDIT: Just saved an avs file and tried to open in MPC, the exact message is "Invalid arguments to function 'loop'", and gives the line number). What's going on here? First time, it worked terrific, I love it! Now, it just won't work?? Any help would be much appreciated. This is a project I must complete soon, and I'd really like to use DVDSlideshowGUI for it. (I already unistalled/reinstalled - no luck!). [EDIT #2: I think I found the bug! I believe the "invalid loop" involves the very last slide, which after applying the "Match Duration to Audio" feature, gives the last slide a duration of "117.001" frames! Obviously the "loop function" doesn't like floating-points, I changed the duration to 118 and HC happily continues on its way! Tin2Tin, could you please have a look at this? I am happy now though, because I can easily work around this for the time being, and I enjoy this software very much!] | ||||||||||||||
| ak79 posted 2009 May 04 13:46 | ||||||||||||||
| I have found a bug in the .dsg - Files.
If i import pics and select seval pics at once it could happen that some pics have the same ID. Therefore if i want to animate them there will be problems for example the program sets in every pic those red stick but i animated only one of them. If i remove one of those red sticks in one pic it removes or adds it in the other pic with the same ID. Sorry, my english is not the best and it took me perhaps two days to find out about that. Please make sure that every pic has a unique ID after the import. I have found a temporary solution in simply giving every pic a unique ID manually in the .dsg files but i hope that no other user will troubled by this nasty thing again :D | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 May 05 02:44 | ||||||||||||||
| @ ak79
It's not a bug. If you want to add individual animations to individual slides you should add animations one by one and not add an animation to the entire bunch. It's done that way because if each slide had it's own ID with animation it would eat up too much RAM. @ ZQX It sounds like some missing int function somewhere - I don't know when I'll get the time to track that down. BTW. Thanks for the 10'er. :) The reason for the 'heart' transition is this: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic357484.html#1893927. If there are certain transitions you don't like and don't want among the random transitions just open the 'Transitions' folder and remove the file with the name of that speciffic transition and restart DSG. | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 May 17 07:24 | ||||||||||||||
| @ tin2tin: 0.9.1.1 photo property subtitle import does not seem to work?
Hi tin2tin, Long time no speak - I see we both have been very busy ;-). I just did the upgrade from 0.8.6.8 to 0.9.1.1. Everything seems to work equally well or better than before, except I can't get DSG to import photo property subtitles. If I deinstall 0.9.1.1 then install 0.8.6.8 and go F7, Subs: Date/Time, apply and import photos, the date/time subtitles work perfectly as before. If I deinstall 0.8.6.8 then install 0.9.1.1 and go F7, Subs: Date/Time, apply and import photos, the subtitles are empty. I've also tried importing various different photo property subtitles, even file size, but the subtitles always end up empty. Between deinstalling and installing the other version, I clean out the DSG directory to remove any lingering settings. Just so you know, with both 0.8.6.8 and 0.9.1.1 installs I do not install Avisynth and XviD again. Both are already installed. With 0.8.6.8 I cancel their respective install dialogues, and with 0.9.1.1 I uncheck them. My Avisynth installation is at 2.5.8 and XviD I don't use with DSG, I think - I just import photos and export to all. Please have a look at this? I'd be happy to do whatever further tests you recommend to get to a resolution. Improvement suggestion: While on the subject of importing photo properties for subtitles, currently it seems the only way of changing subtitles to a new photo property is to remove the photos and reimport them. Would it be possible to split the subtitle import code from the rest of the import code? That would make it possible to apply a new Subs: value and correspondingly update just the subtitles, without having to reimport the photos. Thanks and kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 May 17 07:51 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm sorry there is a EXIF import bug in 0.9.1.1 try 0.9.1.0 instead(get it here at videohelp.com). | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 May 18 03:13 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks for confirming, in that case I'd rather wait for the next version - 0.8.6.8 does what I need correctly :-).
Please consider my suggestion of updating the subtitle property import without having to remove and reimport the photos? Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 May 18 03:33 | ||||||||||||||
| http://www.videohelp.com/download/DVDsGUI0910.exe
Atm. I'm don't have the time to work on DSG, sorry. | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 May 18 03:36 | ||||||||||||||
| Shame, I understand. Don't worry about it.
Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 May 25 03:50 | ||||||||||||||
| Quick fix version uploaded under the same name at the DSG download page.
- EXIF bug fixed. - Match duration to audio bug fixed. - Avi/avs load thumbnail bug. When you run the new version it will say 0.9.1.2(but not at the download page - I don't have the time to update that as well) | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 May 25 04:23 | ||||||||||||||
| Very kind of you!
Best regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| ZQX posted 2009 May 25 04:37 | ||||||||||||||
| :thumbs_up: Thank you very much! | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 May 26 13:47 | ||||||||||||||
| Better results with previous version?
Hi All, Having done the upgrade to 0.9.1.2, I compared its results with those I got with 0.8.6.8 on the same set of 102 photos. Here are some of the things I noticed: [list=] Both the average and peak bitrates were much higher Therefore the m2v file size was more than 3 times larger The file was now progressive instead of interlaced But it didn't look as good!? Especially gradual colour gradients were previously smooth and pleasing, but now they tended to come out blocky. Photos also come out darker than the originals (or those in the 0.8.6.8 slideshow). [/list] So I replaced 0.9.1.2's HC.ini and HC_fast.ini (not knowing exactly which is used where) with the versions from 0.8.6.8. For what it's worth this is how they compare: 0.8.6.8 HC.ini:
0.9.1.2 HC.ini:
0.8.6.8 HC_fast.ini:
0.9.1.2 HC_fast.ini:
After replacing the ini files, colour gradient results looked as good as those I got with 0.8.6.8. However, the slideshow was still slightly larger than previously. Also the photos still came out darker than before, unacceptably so especially for low-light photos. Because the ini files were now the same as before, this made me wonder whether 0.9.1.2 also prepares the photos slightly differently before encoding? Can anyone shed more light on this, and where I could look for these settings to make them the same as with 0.8.6.8? Thanks kindly in advance, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| yoeri2 posted 2009 May 30 04:13 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi there,
It took me a couple of hours to make my Canon AVI files work within DVD slideshow GUI, because of the AVISource MJPG coded error. Mike99's post helped me out in the end. To make a complicated story simple, I'll list the steps I took: 1) Installed DVD slideshow GUI 2) Installed ffdshow 3) Started the VFW configuration (= ffdshow video encoder configuration) 4) On the Decoder tab in the list with Codecs, go to MJPEG and change 'disbled' into 'libavcodec'. Hope that helps someone out one day! Grtz, Yoeri | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 May 31 11:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Version 0.9.1.3 uploaded under the same name at the DSG download page(No change visible at the page only in the download).
- Png images with alpha(without animation) had some bugs which are now fixed. - Looked a bit into the colorspace conversions. Took me a full day. Sigh. :( | ||||||||||||||
| ZQX posted 2009 May 31 16:08 | ||||||||||||||
| Tin2tin, I'm sure there are a lot of people here who appreciate your hard work. THANK YOU!!! | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 Jun 01 01:01 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin, I am one of those ZQX is talking about! Thank you, always.
I feel so sorry for you. It sounds as if you're under some pressure at the moment. I know that feeling well ;-). I hope you manage to find a happy balance between the important things in your life. Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 03 04:57 | ||||||||||||||
| To try some of the new possibilities(from 0.9.1.4) with VSfilter add this example to the main DSG folder and open it in DSG.
(Right click: Save target as...)http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/Example_Subtitles.dsg You can read up on the additional options here: http://www.animereactor.dk/aegisub/readme-vsfilter.txt and some more here: http://aegisub.cellosoft.com/docs/ASS_Tags (I found a few minor bugs and reuploaded 0.9.1.4 - so if you downloaded before this post - please re-download it) | ||||||||||||||
| ZQX posted 2009 Jun 03 05:48 | ||||||||||||||
| OK, tin2tin, now you are just spoiling us rotten! :D
I will experiment with your new release ASAP and let you know. THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR BRILLIANT SOFTWARE!! (I'm not just blowing wind up your arse. I have test-driven ProShow and while it is more featured (?), I can still get MUCH more appealing results with your software!!! I am in love with the "Kandinsky" animated background - where does this come from? Did you invent it? Is it possible to tweak the colours??) (EDIT: Installed your latest version and tried to load the dsg file - "Sorry this file is for an older version" or something??) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 03 06:28 | ||||||||||||||
| A link problem. Try now. Or if you just downloaded DSG in might be included in the download. The latest DSG upload(same name) allows subtitles longer than 100 characters. | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 Jun 04 01:29 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tintin,
It's BEAU-TI-FUL! :-) I've been using SSA subtitles (the predecessor to ASS) for video projects now for some time, and adding support for that to DSG... wow! Thank you! Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 04 03:45 | ||||||||||||||
| Version 0.9.1.5:
(Uploaded as 0.9.1.4 no visible homepage change) - Preview of PAL 16:9 wrong colors bugfix. - Preset window optimations. - Italics and Bold option now works on ssa subtitles and hardsubs. - longer subtitles allowed. - Subtitle box bugfix. On the animated backgrounds: It's done with a combination of FreeFrame filters in FFrend and then exported as meta filter. This filter can be loaded into Avisynth with a FreeFrame plugin. So if you want to make you own, get FFrend, get some FreeFrame filters, play around with it, export as metafilter(.dll), and take a look into the .avs background files to see how that meta filter can be loaded via avisynth script into DSG. (All freeware). And most importantly share your animated backgrounds if you come up with something nice. :) BTW. DSG uses ssa subtitles. I've just realised a lot has happended to the ssa parser since I originally added it - and now it supports most of the ass tags as well. I couldn't get \move and \pos to work though. Let me know if you can figure that out. | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 Jun 04 06:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I'm having a bit of trouble (browser/proxy cache) distinguishing the 0.9.1.5 download from the previous filename containing 0.9.1.4. Is the filesize of 0.9.1.5 20,350,532 bytes? Thanks, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 04 07:14 | ||||||||||||||
| In the properties of the installer and in the tooltip it says 0.9.1.5.
Size: 19,4 MB (20.349.428 byte) Disk usage: 19,4 MB (20.353.024 byte) | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 Jun 04 08:35 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks. And to be downloaded off http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/download.html, i.e. http://www.videohelp.com/~tin2tin/DVDsGUI0914.exe in this case?
Because I'm not getting it ;-) no matter how I clear my browser's cache. It must be a caching proxy or something in between somewhere. So unless I have the download URL wrong I guess I'll just keep retrying. Thanks, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 Jun 04 09:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Not to worry, finally got it via another Internet connection. Thanks for your help.
Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 05 04:30 | ||||||||||||||
| New version:
0.9.1.6 - More Presets window optimations. - Code clean up. - Max subtitle length: 168 0.9.1.5 - Preview of PAL 16:9 wrong colors. - Preset window optimations. - Italics and Bold option now works on ssa subtitles and hardsubs. - Longer subtitles allowed. - Subtitle box bugfix. There is some kind of instability caused by the Media Player in the Presets window which makes DSG hang. I've been trying to track this down. But still I haven't succeded finding some kind of repeatable workflow which will provoke the error to happen. Instead I've cleaned up the code using the mediaplayer function and I hope it might dissappear that way. But if you can finde some way to make a repeatable workflow cauing the error - let me know. This instabilly thing(glitz?) is in all versions with the mediaplayer embedded in the Presets window. | ||||||||||||||
| SpotFinder posted 2009 Jun 11 12:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Collective brain trust, I am new to this so please be gentile.
How do I create my own custom FreeFrame plugin? My end goal is to create my own custom FreeFrame plugin that I can then use in another app that uses AviSynth. I know that my other app (DVDslideshowGUI) supports AviSynth FreeFrame plugins. It appears that all of the existing FreeFrame plugins used in AviSynth are DLL’s. I know that FreeFrame is simply a framework and not an app. And that FreeFrame plugins can be used in a slew of host apps / NLE’s, but my question is this… It seems that all of these host apps will save a clip as an AVI and that’s all fine and good, but what if you want to make your own FreeFrame plugin using a string of multiple readymade plugins or simply an effect you’ve created on your own that you wish to replicate? At this point I’ve not committed to a specific FreeFrame host app/NLE yet so if one allows you to generate your own plugin/DLL I’d like to know. Thanks in advance for your thoughts and help. | ||||||||||||||
| Safesurfer posted 2009 Jun 11 13:10 | ||||||||||||||
| You might want to check out the Freeframe site http://freeframe.sourceforge.net/ | ||||||||||||||
| SpotFinder posted 2009 Jun 11 13:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Yeah, I've done that but I cant seem to find an answer there. I've downloaded the latest FF software but cannot make heads or tails of any of the files. It seems the most recent version is an SDK for programmers to implement FF into their own software (I could be wrong). I could be missing something though.
I can't help but feel this is something simple and I've either overlooked something or just not queried correctly. Thanks for your help. | ||||||||||||||
| Safesurfer posted 2009 Jun 11 13:35 | ||||||||||||||
Did you look at the Readme.txt file? Here's the contents. Also have a look at the Specification.html file.
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| SpotFinder posted 2009 Jun 11 14:40 | ||||||||||||||
| No, I hadn't read the readme.
WOW! now that I have I feel I'm part way there. There is an existing plugin DLL that I wanted to modify. I can't seem to get it to load on the FFGL host.exe but I can load it and view a clip using the Delphi Host. There I can see the basic source code and do some minor manipulation. Still reading the documentation... Now is there a way to save the changes? Since I can't just open the DLL and change the source code, I can cut and paste the changes, but how do I save them as a DLL? Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. This is a major step forward. Still reading. Also, sorry to be such a pain. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 11 16:39 | ||||||||||||||
| In this post: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-780.html#1974416 on this very page - I have allready written how the FF animated backgrounds are made in DSG. Btw. keep this a DVD slideshow GUI development thread please. :) There is an answer for you here. | ||||||||||||||
| SpotFinder posted 2009 Jun 12 14:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Tin2tin,
Thanks for all your help. FFrend is the thing to use. :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: I just read ALL of the documentation and I can’t wait to dive in. DSG is a really fantastic program. I love the ability to create/add my own backgrounds (static & motion) as well as being able to create/modify transitions. It seems that all the “Commercial” slideshow solutions are very limited in their implementation and customization. Great for the general public end user, but not so great for creative professionals. I am a location scout in the film industry and so I interact with visually creative people. I’m in the process of creating a DVD for promotional distribution, so I really need to have a sophisticated, visually stimulating presentation in order to appeal to my clients/potential clients. DSG is simply the best tool available. Thank you, ¡Gracias! Danke! Dank u wel! Merci! Grazie! TACK! :notworthy SpotFinder | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 12 16:50 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm a filmmaker myself(Director). :) When I research locations I like to do a combination of stills and video(360 degrees turn around). To produce a dvd with that combination you should check out export to .gfd(Gui for dvdauthor(used to author the dvd)), this will give you a dvd with menus, an entire slideshow, a chapter menu and one-by-one remote controlled back and forth between the series of video clips and stills. (However animated backgrounds are not allowed in this kind of export - but all elements can be edited and changed in GFD(inc. animated menus and so on)).
BTW. you can do backgrounds without FreeFrame - Avisynth itself is very powerful. Ex. if you want to use any other formats of video as backgrounds - the most of these can be imported in Avisynth. For example on this page: http://movietools.info/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_v ... p;Itemid=4 there are some great looking free film motion-backgrounds. If you write an avisynth script with: directshowsource("yourfilename.wmv") and save it as .avs then you can load that into DSG as a looping background. If you got a missing codec problem - you need to get ffdshow an enable the decoder for that specific codec. | ||||||||||||||
| webazoid posted 2009 Jun 13 22:00 | ||||||||||||||
| when i'm making a slideshow and dvd, how do i change the color of all the buttons on the pictures section of the dvd? i.e. if i want to make unslected arrows white, highlighted yellow, and selected blue? i can change it indivdiaully in gui for dvdautor? | ||||||||||||||
| zapster posted 2009 Jun 13 22:58 | ||||||||||||||
I also need to create slideshows at 1080p and would like to use DSG. Did you figure out the sizing issue? And is your tool ready for release yet? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 14 06:55 | ||||||||||||||
@webazoid
If you use DSG for the export it will make an entire structure of menus - and the you'll have to change those colors for each and every menu manually - unless you open that .gfd in notepad and do some find/replace. @ zapster - you might want to pm him instead. | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 Jun 19 08:23 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
Regarding \mov, \pos and so on: usually if I want all SSA subtitles to start at the same co-ordinates, I specify that in the style. In my projects outside DSG \pos does seem to work for the exceptions. I use FFmpeg for video MPEG-2 DVD encodes. Fantastic results. I notice DSG bundles FFmpeg. If ever you would like to experiment with making that DSG's main encoder, I may be able to help you with a command line or 2. The later versions also support AviSynth :-). Best regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 20 03:05 | ||||||||||||||
On ffmpeg - I'm under the impression that HCenc delivers a better quallity when it comes to mpg/m2v encodes. FFmpeg is DSG using to encode flv(Flash). | ||||||||||||||
| fvisagie posted 2009 Jun 22 03:10 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
Unfortunately I don't use vsfilter with DSG's .ssa output. I use MaestroSBT to render to .sst subtitles for DVD authoring. When using Aegisub (which uses vsfilter), style override tags like {\a1} work. The vsfilter.dll included with Aegisub is version "1, 1, 714, 0" and dated 2008! (How can the versions differ so much?) Anyway, if I come across useful information I'll let you know. Although I haven't explicitly compared speed, in my experience the speeds of ffmpeg and HCenc are in the same order of magnitude. However, ffmpeg provides additional encoding options and superior quality when they are used, but you pay for that with speed. Therefore possibly of debatable value for still pictures, but if you'd like some command lines to play with, let me know. Kind regards, Francois | ||||||||||||||
| Lateron posted 2009 Jun 22 05:36 | ||||||||||||||
| Errors whilst trying to import music in my slideshow project. Tried twice with same results.
dvdslideshowerror.doc | ||||||||||||||
| Safesurfer posted 2009 Jun 22 06:48 | ||||||||||||||
I find it best to convert my audio source to WAV for compatability, variable bit rate MP3s are particularly problematic. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 22 07:44 | ||||||||||||||
| If you are on Vista - you'll need to run DSG as admin... Or else if there is a codec problem you need to install ffdshow and enable the decoder for your codec.
EDIT: Apparently there is a problem with embedded tags in mp3 with the plugin used to import the audio: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1299100#post1299100 Lets hope he'll be able to use a never mpg123 lib for a new compile. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 25 16:21 | ||||||||||||||
| Please get the new version of the plugin(used to load audio in DSG) here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1299100#post1299100
Unzip it and exchange it with the one located in DVD slideshow GUI\Bin and let me know if that solves your problem. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 27 06:11 | ||||||||||||||
| I'm working on adding 1920x1080x23.976 and 1280x720x23.976 for Bluray authoring from DSG.
But I have a couple of questions for those of you guys using DSG for those formats: - If HCenc is used as render what would the right ini setting file be... max bitrate and such. And ac3 - what bitrate fits the format? - If x264 Encoder is used what commandline settings are prefered? And what audio/ac3 bitrate fits the format? - On TsMuxeR - what commandline is preferred? - On ImgBurn - are there any other needed settings than UDF 2.5? I plan to add the needed command lines for those apps(and additional downloads) - so it'll be as out-of-the-box as possible. [BTW. there is an error in Dissolve_blue.avs in the current version out. Delete it in the Transitions folder - using it in a slideshow you'll get some audiodub error.] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jun 30 19:04 | ||||||||||||||
| 0.9.2.0 beta DVD slideshow GUI
- 1080p and 720p formats now supported. - Bluray-rom: export/authoring/burn - Temp files saved in user paths.(More Vista friendly) - External app paths window. - New mplex. - Open and edit Aviscripts in AvsP. - New .pot translation file in Locale folder. - 6 new transitions. - 16 new post effects(can also be loaded as backgrounds). - A lot of bug fixes. - NB. Not backwards convertible! This is not an official release(please do not make it public outside this forum). There are still some bugs - but releasing it now gives you guys an opportunity to do some beta testing and translation(NB. installing this version will uninstall your previous version). If you plan to use the avisynth script editing function I recommend you do download AvsP beforehand and then add the path in DSG. And finally download it here: DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.2.0 beta | ||||||||||||||
| Lawbringer posted 2009 Jun 30 21:25 | ||||||||||||||
... :shock: You, sir... are AWESOME!!! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 01 07:05 | ||||||||||||||
| Here's an example of 720p rendered as m2v and uploaded to Youtube(DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.20 beta can export to 720p and 1080p.). The example shows usage of zoom, dissolves, negative transition durations(overlaps) and a cheesy bloom post-effect. :D
Remember to use the HD button in the Youtube player: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9GjP3C__yo[/video] | ||||||||||||||
| SpotFinder posted 2009 Jul 05 16:27 | ||||||||||||||
| Looping Alpha Channel Overlay?
I am trying to create an overlay effect similar to this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MeaaCwBW28&NR=1 …where each slide has a series of overlaid PNGs (alpha channel) that loop for the entire duration of the slide show. This could be as many as 100 separate PNG’s (time consuming I know, but if it works, it could be really nice). I have tried modifying several AVS scripts by inserting my own PNGs but keep getting “syntax error” or “script error”.
this one I'm trying to get one PNG to overlay & loop
The ideal effect should overlap the slide (image) and background areas and not be affected by transitions. What I want is to have an animated graph and various information in motion over the entire viewing area. Each individual element on the PNGs are moving independently of each other. (Animation the hard way). This is a very similar effect to the film noise on DSG main page Free Frame Transitions. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. [/code]  | ||||||||||||||
| Cokeat3grade posted 2009 Jul 07 05:34 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello,
does anybody know what this failure means and how it can be fixed? 12:21:31: tiff module: TIFFReadDirectory 12:21:31: image: wrong data type 1 for "XMLPacket"; tag ignored 12:21:31: tiff module: TIFFReadDirectory 12:21:31: image: unknown field with tag 34665 (0x8769) encountered 12:21:31: tiff module: TIFFReadDirectory 12:21:31: image: wrong data type 1 for "XMLPacket"; tag ignored 12:21:31: tiff module: TIFFReadDirectory 12:21:31: image: unknown field with tag 34665 (0x8769) encountered I am using version 0.9.1.6 and the failure appears every time i start dvd slideshow gui. Tried to reinstall but it didnt disappear. Friendly Wishes Cokeat3grade | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 07 16:45 | ||||||||||||||
| I will not be anywhere near my computer for the next days and can't really help you out - sorry!
On avisynth scripting consult the avisynth docs or the doom9 forum. On the tiff error - delete the file called new.ini in the main dsg folder/or in 0.9.2.0 in the user/.dvdslideshowgui folder. I suspect there is a wxbasic/wxwidgets problem with loading tiff with alpha - so don't use those imagefiles. Anyone tested the 0.9.2.0 beta version? | ||||||||||||||
| Cokeat3grade posted 2009 Jul 08 01:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
thank u for your response.
First i didnt know why at start there should be tiff files in use, but it looks like i choosed a tiff file as background in the project settings... The failure disappeared after choosing a jpg file!
I will try it now ;-) Friendly Wishes Cokeat3grade | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 10 06:39 | ||||||||||||||
| Soon I'll officially release the Bluray version of DSG, so do some beta testing. :) Get it here!
(To work in/test 1080p and 720p select those ratios in the Presets window) DSG is in English, French, Dutch, German and Danish - these are the languages of the users(webpage hits): 
If you feel up to translating to your language/updating translations DSG here's how to do it: How to translate DVD slideshow GUI: Install poEdit, that is the tool you will use for translating. Open 'DVD slideshow GUI\Locale\en.pot' in poEdit. Under the menu Catalog -> Settings -> Project Info, you can enter your name/email, the language and country, the charset for the output. Translate the right collum into your language. Save as... named after these language codes: http://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html A .po and a .mo files are saved. These are the two files you zip and send me and I'll include your translation to DVD slideshow GUI. How to update a translation: Open the .po files you want to update in poEdit. You update the catalog with the menu Catalog -> Update from POT file. Select in the next dialog the latest .pot file located in 'DVD slideshow GUI\locale'. Translate the missing messages. Check the fuzy ones. Save the file. A .po and a .mo files are saved. These are the two files you zip and send me and I'll include your translation to DVD slideshow GUI. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 10 17:49 | ||||||||||||||
| @ SpotFinder - here's an old example of a script/post-effect with a video as overlay(but no alpha in the example): Hearts.
On useful avisynth commands(Check out the avisynth docs): Last will hold info on the original clip - like height, width, framecount, famerate...(very useful when coding a post effect) Imagesource will let you import a series of images. RGB32 will use the alpha channel. ShowAlpha will return the alpha channel as a mask. Overlay will let you overlay one clip on top of another clip with a mask. Converttoyv12() will convert to yv12 which is the colorspace Hcenc/DVDs(and therefore DSG) needs. | ||||||||||||||
| SpotFinder posted 2009 Jul 11 17:25 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you Tin2Tin,
I've got part of the code working and can now call up several PNGs as an overlay. This is just a modification of the "Template_Overlay" in DSG Here's the code that works so far...
My problem is now is twofold. a) Controlling the speed/duration of each PNG in the overlay. I've tried changing the FPS from FPS=25 all the way to FPS=0.1 but no change in the speed/duration of the PNGs. b) Because the duration of the PNGs in the overlay is so quick/short, the last PNG in the series is displayed for the remaining duration of the slideshow. (hope that makes sense) Ideally, the overlay would loop back to the starting point (the first PNG in the series). On another note, I'm unable to get the "Template_Overlay" code to work in VirtualDubMod and some code I've written that works in vDubMod doesn't seem to work in DSG, so I'm limited to testing in DSG only. Not a big deal since DSG is the main tool for my project. If I could get the code right in vDubMod, I might be able to render an avi clip and use that as the overlay in DSG, but not sure if the avi would maintain the alpha channel. As usual, thanks for your input. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 11 18:07 | ||||||||||||||
Try this:
If you run this script outside DSG there is no original clip and last will error out(look at my post above).
BTW. you should really check out the forum.doom9.org for your avisynth related questions. On your previous thing with that freeframe plugin http://forum.videohelp.com/topic369161.html#1978238 - I've added it as a posteffect in 0.9.2.0 which can be loaded as a background too. | ||||||||||||||
| SpotFinder posted 2009 Jul 11 19:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Thank you for the code. Looping overlay works great.
I didn't know there was a newer version of DSG. I'll download it right now. However, I was able to load the multistrip effect as a background, but had to render an avi for each image and then load that avi as the background. Kind of a pain to do if the slideshow is more than a couple images. There is a wealth of info on the Doom9 forum, I just wasn't querying correctly. As for the speed/duration of the PNGs, I'll keep searching, but in the meantime I'll just add more PNGs to stretch the length. Keep up the great work on DSG. This is really an awesome program. Thanks again. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 12 14:12 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.2.0 is out get it here. It's the one with Blu-Ray authoring. :)
- 1080p and 720p formats now supported. - Bluray-rom: export, authoring and burn. - Paypal donations accepted again. - Temp files saved in user paths(More Vista friendly). - External app paths window. - New mplex. - Open and edit Avisynth scripts in AvsP. - New .pot translation file in Locale folder. - 6 new transitions. - 16 new post effects(can also be loaded as backgrounds). - A lot of bug fixes. - Sort by listctrl click. - NB. Not backwards convertible! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 13 08:57 | ||||||||||||||
| Hmm. The animations wasn't keyed correctly when rendered, so I've uploaded the fixed version under the same name - so redownload it if you downloaded 0.9.2.0. earlier than the date/time of this post. Sorry.
Updated the features lists and screenshot on the homepage. | ||||||||||||||
| Nyk posted 2009 Jul 16 07:10 | ||||||||||||||
| 1. DVD Lab pro (Extension) reports "One or more DVD-Video compliance problems were detected"
2. I want to close GOPs. You have HC ini file. Just explain how? Thanks for tough GUI. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 16 09:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Download HCenc and check out the docs with info on the ini files. The ini file can be edited in notepad. Let me know if you find a way to make more compatible files for that other program you mentioned. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Jul 19 16:44 | ||||||||||||||
| New version of DVD slideshow GUI is out:
0.9.2.1 - Menu brushup - EXIF bug - Add EXIF data in Slide Settings window | ||||||||||||||
| trefrog posted 2009 Aug 12 11:48 | ||||||||||||||
| (ACK! 3rd EDIT!)
:evil: seems there is a problem with the AvsP.exe URL in the installer... or something to that effect. The download gets to 97% and then says "Error reading URL. The operation timed out." Happens every time I run or click Retry. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 12 13:19 | ||||||||||||||
| Hmm I just tested a full install(all files downloaded and installed). It works fine here.
You wrote the you only downloaded and installed 2 files. What did you select/deselect for the download? (DSG will not run without Avisynth) | ||||||||||||||
| trefrog posted 2009 Aug 12 14:03 | ||||||||||||||
| well first I tried Full Install. Eventually I went thru and monitored it while downloading, determined it was the AvsP.exe that was problematic, so I deselected that one and finished off the install. Apparently AvsP is just a script editor or something. sounds like I won't need it..
HCenc is in pass 2... so... i'll see if my test works out in the physical player. maybe it's something weird in the company firewall... DNS issues... seems weird because it reports downloading to 97% then says URL can't be found, maybe the install is trying to contact... some server "unrelated" to the download, yet the install process status is dependant on reaching said hidden URL? bla i can only speculate... | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 12 15:25 | ||||||||||||||
| Could you check your Programs folder if there is a AvsP folder?
The file downloaded is this one: http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/AvsP.exe The program downloaded after AvsP is Ffdshow - this should also have it's own folder in the Programs folder - could you check for me if that is installed? | ||||||||||||||
| SRA posted 2009 Aug 18 12:41 | ||||||||||||||
| I downloaded and installed your program, tin2tin and everything went fine. I am evaluating this for my mother. I will encourage her to donate.
Just one question. Why are the slideshows such large files? I tried using very small images, 60k and setting the transition to cut, -3 . 5 60k images made a 500 frame 16mb file. I checked the settings, but cannot figure it out. Maybe it's an ImgBurn setting? I would like to limit the number of frames, maybe that would reduce the size? Thanks in advance. Good job, I wish you luck. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 18 13:46 | ||||||||||||||
If you're exporting to a DVD(mpg, m2v etc.) you must remember that a feature film is around 4 GB on a single layer disk and up to ca. 8 GB on a dual layer disk. So I don't think it is too large in that comparison. The size of your images doesn't change this. The length of a slideshow is both connected to the duration of the slide and the duration of the transition. Right click on the selected slides to get access to the Slidesetting menu or from the toolbar buttons or the menus. If you want to export to smaller files then try to export to avi or flv or even to .avs which can be imported to most ffmpeg GUI based videoformat renders like Super. If you want to export to a dvd in smaller files(lower bitrate), then you must change the settings in the HCenc.ini file(open in notepad). Check out HCenc docs for the options. | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 19 02:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi,
yesterday I found DVD slideshow GUI and it looks realy great. But one thing I'm missing: Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) For example I have pictures in the format 1600x1200 (which means 4:3). On a computer-monitor it's okay (still there are also resolutions, where PAR is not 1:1), but NOT on a TV. TV have a visual size of 4:3, but the PAR is 16:15 !!! So when you see a circle, it looks like an ellipse. To correct this, you have to scale the pictures for example the height by 16/15. I have tried to solve this problem with an Avisynth-script. It's only one line: BilinearResize(Width,(Height*16/15 /2)*2) (The /2*2 is to become even numberes.) But if I set this script in "Pre-process(images)", it didn't work!!! Setting it in "Post-process(slideshow)" it shows, that this script seems okay (a circle is shown as a circle, now), BUT instead of scaling the photo to fullscreen it makes background also at the left side. I hope you understand what I mean - simple try it. If you have questions, ask please. I hope there will be a sollution, because scaling all photos BEFORE with an other program is not a good way. Thanks, Bernhard | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 19 04:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi again,
and a few things more. ;-) Problem: portrait and landscape format When selecting photos from last holiday, I recognize, that I can not select only the same format (landscape), but also photos in portrait-format are needed. Using landscape AND portrait-format together, the Transition often don't look so nice. So I think it would be a good idea to use SPECIAL Transition-Effects, if the following picture is not fitting the whole are. For example if I'm using a 4:3 screen, all is okay, if the next photo is landscape-format which is in 4:3, but when a photo in portrait-format is coming, use only special ones. Describing functionality: you can use ONLY that Transcriptions, where the new photo is "touching" EACH pixel of the screen. Only AFTER the new photo is going back, there will be shown the background. Here is an example: http://home.arcor.de/Bernhard.Maerz/slideshowdemo/demo.html By the way, I have found a small BUG: I have had needed some time to found it. My internet provider uses case-SENSITIVE !!! When saving as FLV, DVD slideshow GUI creates a file "Flvplayer.swf" (with uppercase "F"), but in the html-file is written "flvplayer.swf" (with lowercase "f"). Thanks, Bernhard | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 19 23:51 | ||||||||||||||
Huh!? DVD's are either 4:3 or 16:9. What are you exporting to? I'm sorry I really don't understand your problem. Well, on the transitions you can just remove the transitions from the transition folder and restart DSG. If you don't like the background and slide both are effected by the transitions you could try working with an animated background(where the background is keyed out). Thanks for the info on the case sensitive thing. | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 20 01:59 | ||||||||||||||
Oh, I'm exporting nothing unusual: PAL :) There's a lot to say about TV-formats ... First, let me explain the main part. Look at this image, please: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/PAR-2to1.jpg This is only an example. The PAR is 2:1, which means, that each PIXEL has twice bigger width than height. So when you have an picture with size 4x8 and show it with this PAR, the result will look square. At TVs, the pixel are NOT square. They are a little bit more width than height (exactly 768/702, but normaly used is 16/15). Read more and detailed in wikipedia, please: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio
Sorry, in this case I don't understand you. :( I like to make slideshows as in the demo I gave you the link. This demo was NOT possible to make with DVD slideshow GUI - I've made it in separate steps. Maybe there was a missunderstanding. The first image you can see should NOT be the background. This is ONE image of the slideshow (in landscape format) and then the next one (in portrait format) should be shown by a nice transition. Thanks, Bernhard | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 20 03:28 | ||||||||||||||
| Well, the thing is that DVDs only support 16:9 and 4:3 - if you want to export to some other PAR - the correct way is to make a post effect for rescaling it(but you'll not be able to use it for a DVD...) - or if you're not affraid to get your fingers dirty then export to .avs and you can tinker with your slideshow in script format.
If you want to make your own transitions you can take a look in the transition folder where all the transitons are in avisynth script and also look it up in the DSG docs. | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 20 03:51 | ||||||||||||||
Nonono, you still didn't understand. :( If you like to make a DVD in format 4:3, you have the following values: DAR 4:3 PAR 16:15 and in format 16:9 there are this values: DAR 16:9 PAR 64:45 When you like to put pictures to a DVD you have to do the following: source: for example a photo with the resolution 768x576 it will be shown correct with PAR 1:1 But for DVD you have to scale it to 720x576 and display it with PAR 16:15. Oh, I believe you sill wouldn't understand. :( | ||||||||||||||
| Gavino posted 2009 Aug 20 04:11 | ||||||||||||||
| The basic question is this:
Does DVD Slideshow GUI take into account the difference in PAR between input and output formats when importing images? For example, digital photos generally have 'square pixels' (I hate that term, actually), whereas a PAL DVD has a PAR of 16:15, so the image needs to be squeezed horizontally in order to be displayed properly on a TV (which expands it back to the proper width). I would have hoped that DSG would do that automatically if the output settings are PAL 4:3. | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 20 05:10 | ||||||||||||||
Unfortunately not. DVD Slideshow GUI only take account of DAR (means, anamorph 16x9 is scaled by width/4*3).
... and also the other settings. Of course, this would be the best. But I see this thing hard to realize, as you can see, that one of the developer didn't understand PAR. So if we like correct PAR, we have to resize all photos before working with them in DVD Slideshow GUI. (As I told, I was not able to write a pre-process-script, which would do that.) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 23 02:32 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Berni314
Okay, I'll try to add PAR. Could you help me figuring out the correct PAR(from 1:1 to ?) for those formats DSG supports? PAL 720x576x25(4:3) NTSC 720x480x29.97(4:3) PAL 720x576x25(16:9) NTSC 720x480x29.97(16:9) 720p 1280x720x23.976(16:9) 1080p 1920x1080x23.976(16:9) And what additional PAR would be useful to have ex. 1:1? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 23 13:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Anyone know the PAR for?
- 720p 1280x720x23.976(16:9) - 1080p 1920x1080x23.976(16:9) Is it 1:1? This is what I've found out so far: 720x480 (NTSC) - DAR=4:3 -> PAR=8:9 - DAR=16:9 -> PAR=32:27 720x576 (PAL) - DAR=4:3 -> PAR=16:15 - DAR=16:9 -> PAR=64:45 [EDIT: the 16:9 PAR's comes out really wrong when adding those values - I wonder if I allready adressed this thing when it comes to 16:9 - @Berni314 do you have the same problem with 16:9?] | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 24 04:47 | ||||||||||||||
| One thing first:
SAR - source aspect ratio PAR - pixel aspect ratio DAR - display aspect ratio Having 2 of this values, you can calculate the third.
For example: PAL 720x576x25(4:3) This means you have an image with resolution 720x576 (SAR 5:4) and you like to show it with ratio 4:3 => PAR=16:15 If you understand this, you can calculate PAR for 720p and 1080p by yourself easyly. ;-)
- Standard (4:3) PAL Source: 720x576 SAR: 5:4 PAR: 16:15 DAR: 4:3 - Widescreen (16:9) PAL Source: 720x576 SAR: 5:4 PAR: 64:45 DAR: 16:9 - Standard (4:3) NTSC Source: 720x480 SAR: 6:4 PAR: 8:9 DAR: 4:3 - Widescreen (16:9) NTSC Source: 720x480 SAR: 6:4 PAR: 32:27 DAR: 16:9 - 720p/720i Source: 1280x720 SAR: 16:9 PAR: 1:1 DAR: 16:9 - 1080p/1080i Source: 1920×1080 SAR: 16:9 PAR: 1:1 DAR: 16:9
I didn't know, which resolution DVDslideshowGUI uses for widescreen, but I'm strongly asume, it uses not the final resolution. ;-) When you like to create Widescreen (16:9) PAL, you can use the values shown above: => Source: 720x576, SAR 5:4, PAR 64:45, DAR 16:9 This means nothing else, than scaling your original pictures by ratio 64:45 and save it as "Standard (4:3) PAL (=720x576!!!)", setting the correct scaling values in your codec. But ALSO you could use THIS values: Source: 1024x576, SAR 16:9, PAR 1:1, DAR 16:9 THEN when SAVING video you scale: Source: 1024x576 => 720x576 (SAR 5:4, PAR 64:45, DAR 16:9) In this case you make anamorphic scaling and THEN (!!!) the PAR changes. ;-) But you are WORKING with 1024x576 and there is PAR 1:1. Maybe this is the way DVDslideshowGUI is doing it. I've checked it and PAR seems okay in Widescreen (16:9) PAL. But I would like to say: if you like to save in 720x576, it would be better (faster) to work also in 720x576. When using other PAR, you should also use other resolutions. For example 704x576 is also allowed (!!!) for DVDs, but not typically. For example: - Standard (4:3) PAL Source: 704x576 SAR: 5:4 PAR: 1.0909 DAR: 4:3 --- By the way to make you more confuse. ;-) The values above are NOT the really correct one. ;-) Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio Nevertheless I would suggest this values, because when you have a 4x3 picture, it should fit the source (720x576) so you wouldn't see any black border. Also it would be a good idea to make this value configurable. --- If something is unclear, feel free to ask me. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 25 04:15 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Berni314
I don't really have time for this, but now I've added a PAR selection box to the Presets window. Could you test it for me? http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/DVDslideshowGUI.zip (Download, unzip and add to the main DSG folder) Right now the PAR only works correctly on big(larger than ex. 720x576) non animated slides and PAR values aren't saved in .dsg files, but you should be able to check if the other stuff works. | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 25 07:32 | ||||||||||||||
Yes, the PAR stuff really works very well. I've tested PAL 4:3 and PAL 16:9. But I have found an other small ugliness. (I don't know, maybe this happend also before with the old version.) Load one of the following videos: http://home.arcor.de/Bernhard.Maerz/slideshowdemo/Test_PAL4x3.avi http://home.arcor.de/Bernhard.Maerz/slideshowdemo/Test_PAL16x9.avi Classic Media Player should show them with corret ratio. P.S. I hope you didn't use "Old Renderer" for Output, because this didn't scale the video. ;-) During the transition, there is one line missing: Frame 106: look at the middle of the top - here you can recognize it best Frame 123: look at the top line - this is the last frame of the transition Frame 124: look again at the top line, it's correct, now. Watching at an TV, you won't see this small failures, but I like to tell. Nevertheless it's working very fine for creating videos for TV. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 25 07:47 | ||||||||||||||
| Oh well, I see the the problem with the top line during the transition, however I can't do anything about it since that transition is done with a avisynth plugin called 'transall.dll' - which I didn't code.
If you leave those videos up - I'll ask the author of transall if this is something he can fix. | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 25 08:00 | ||||||||||||||
Oh, sorry. I didn't thought that this can be a bug of the plugin. I thought it's something wrong with the routine preparing the images.
I will keep them there for a while. | ||||||||||||||
| golemik posted 2009 Aug 26 14:33 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi
Congratulation - this is very good soft. I have some ideas for You (DVD slideshow GUI v.9.2.0) 1) Can You add in project settings resolution 1920x1080x25.000 2) In project settings->import settings->Subs: - EXIF data:- a multi choice, not only one type (for example: File name; Comment; Camera model -all in one slide) 3) Background- without background or black backgroung. 4) In main window in first column -number of order for slide (1,2,3 etc). 5) In last column show time line in second (in vertical position) or time of start for each slide (now is in status bar). 5) Export to *.txt or *.csv value of each column (for additional soft - make subtitle with another comment etc.) Thanks | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 26 17:34 | ||||||||||||||
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| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 27 13:01 | ||||||||||||||
| A video of some of the new subtitle effects(VSfilter) in the upcoming DVD slideshow GUI version:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aNDqyl2Pe0[/video] The new Subtitle effect function: 
The new PAR(Pixel Aspect Ratio) function: 
Get the 0.9.2.2 version of DVD slideshow GUI at the homepage - link at sigature. | ||||||||||||||
| Gavino posted 2009 Aug 27 14:33 | ||||||||||||||
Nice work! How about also adding the ITU PARs of 12:11 and 16:11 for PAL 4:3 and 16:9 respectively? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 27 18:19 | ||||||||||||||
| Oh, I really need to focus on real life in the coming weeks(and try not to spend my time on DSG).
Adding more resolutions and PARs takes me a lot of time(it's not just a number in a combo box). :? Are ITU PARs dead necessary for people, who just need a slideshow on a DVD? | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 28 01:17 | ||||||||||||||
I understand very well. I've also written programs. :|
This makes me wondering. "normaly" this should work by two numbers (w:h) and then multiply one side of the pictures by *w/h. Nut don't worry about me: I know also THIS about "normaly". Often I had also difficulty problems in my programs, when it seems easy. Oh, and also I have to say: this PAR-settings work very well. It's easy and fast to create Slideshows with correct PARs and it's no longer needed to make compliziated steps, now.
I know it's one step more, but for example with Avidemux you can easily change the number of picters per second. | ||||||||||||||
| ZQX posted 2009 Aug 28 03:04 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks again, tin2tin, you should be proud of your creature!
One note: you are not using the latest Imgburn version in your package-install! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 28 03:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Yes I know. It would take ages if I had to keep up to date with all the apps DSG is "talking" to for doing all the actual work and check if all the new versions would cause any problems, so it's only when there is a speciffic reason(like something is not working) I'll update. Or else it would be too time consuming for me to make a new release. | ||||||||||||||
| ZQX posted 2009 Aug 28 03:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Fair enough, mate. Thanks all the same, yours is the best slideshow app if you ask me. | ||||||||||||||
| Gavino posted 2009 Aug 28 04:24 | ||||||||||||||
That's surprising. Isn't the logic the same, regardless of the actual PAR value (which is effectively just a parameter)?
That depends on which PAR value DVD players use to generate a signal for a TV - do they assume the DAR applies to 720 or to 704 pixels width? I don't know the answer to that, and it might depend on the player. Anyway, no-one should complain if you want to take a well-deserved rest. :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 28 06:06 | ||||||||||||||
| @ Berni314
On that transition glitch you mentioned. I notifyed Mr. Mohan the author of the TransAll. He writes:
You can get the fixed version here: http://avisynth.org/vcmohan/ Exchange the new transall.dll with the old one in the DVD slideshow GUI/Transitions folder to check it that is okay. | ||||||||||||||
| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 28 11:14 | ||||||||||||||
I have tested it and it works okay. But in the meantime I recognized something other wrong: the output is 720x614 instead of 720x576 | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Aug 28 12:27 | ||||||||||||||
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| Berni314 posted 2009 Aug 29 05:36 | ||||||||||||||
Yes I know, that I gave less info. But because I ALWAYS got this result, I tried some things, but without any other result, I thought others must have the same problem and still not recognized. But today, all is working fine. It's realy strange. I've tried it yesterday with different versions (the beta and also the newest) and also today (I still tested it with the beta). But today all is working fine and I can't reproduze the error. (I also have an AVI with this wrong resolution, so I can attest that I wasn't drunken 8) ) Sorry for that. (If this happens again, I will examine it better.) | ||||||||||||||
| loiety posted 2009 Sep 02 03:04 | ||||||||||||||
| Impossible to install.
Error: Error opening http://download.imgburn.com/SetupImgBurn_2.4.4.0.exe The server returned status code 403 The current versione of imgburn is 2.5.0.0 Disabiling imgburn from custom installation don't solve the problem Best regards | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 02 06:15 | ||||||||||||||
| They must have taken the old version of Imgburn down.
I've updated the installer and uploaded it under the same name. So please redownload DSG and try again. [EDIT: Well I gave it a new number since the previous(0.9.2.2) wouldn't work for anyone thanks to the Imgburn bug). This way I hope the mirrors of DSG will be updated] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 03 17:12 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.2.4 is out.
- GFD transitions fix. - GFD still blacklevel fix. - Animated background for gfd added. - Font button fix. - Menu access for DVD menus added. - Menu access for background added. - Mirror post-effect fix. - Ssa Clear Tags added.  | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 04 01:11 | ||||||||||||||
| If you want voice-over on your slideshows then MULTIQUENCE seems to be very useful and fully functional shareware.
Just render your slideshow in DSG as mpg and in Multiquence Track > Add video sequence... to load that video and record your voiceover as in the following video tutorial. When finished you select File > Save as audio... and save as wav or mp3. Now you load this audio file in DSG and export your slideshow as usual. Here's the video tutorial: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXk9IcznAhQ[/video] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 06 10:41 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.2.5 is out with two new things:
Backup of original media(copies in a 'Source' folder) offered when export to iso/burned dvd: 
Move back and forth between slides in the 'Slide Settings' window: 
Get it here! [EDIT: I reuploaded 0.9.2.5 - 4 hours after this post - because I realised that the updates where too slow on my old XP computer and I found some ways to optimize the code so it should be faster now(And also adding of animated keyframes to multiple slides)] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 08 01:51 | ||||||||||||||
| Fixed some bugs which made the 'Slide Settings' menu crash and uploaded under the same name on the DSG homepage.
When you open it - it will say '0.9.2.5 A' in the header. So please redownload it unless you downloaded it after reading this post. | ||||||||||||||
| hoinar posted 2009 Sep 08 04:59 | ||||||||||||||
| First of all, thanks for your work, tin2tin. It looks and really is a great piece of software and I'm sure everybody appreciates it... I have some questions re: dsg.
1. I'm using your last version 0.9.2.5A and try to set up a slideshow in 720p format. If I save the show as *.avi everything seems OK, the file has 1280x720 px. However, if I save the show as *.avs and use the avs file in AvsP and try to encode there (with avs2avi) the output file is only 50% resolution, i.e. 640x360 px (as shown in the attached image)... the same if I use the avs file (where everything seems with the correct dimensions i.e. 1280 and 720) in VirtualDub for ex, the output avi is only 640x360 px... do you know why this happens ? 
2. Saving as avi you always get the separate file *_180.ac3 as audio output ? I don't mind cause this or the original audio file can be muxed later on... but this is the default with dsg ? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 08 11:26 | ||||||||||||||
If I export 720p in .avs and add info() to the end of the script here's what I get:
In other words: the dimentions seem okay. It's proberly the configuration of your encoding codec(in avs2avi) you'll have to look into to make it render a file with the correct dimentions. On your 2. question: As far as I remember is the avi export not muxed - because I never forund a command line tool to mux them correctly. [EDIT: Okay when using an animated background some .reduceby2() are added to one of the last lines(for preview). It's the line starting with "audiodub(overlay(b...". Just remove all the .reduceby2() from that line(until I get time to fix that)] | ||||||||||||||
| hoinar posted 2009 Sep 09 01:10 | ||||||||||||||
That seems to work... thanks a lot... it's OK for preview to reduce the size of the output file (it's true, it happens with animated backgrounds) but if exporting as *.avs it would be nice to have the desired dimension. BTW, the latest additions re: subtitles are very nice :) | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 09 03:10 | ||||||||||||||
| A few bugfixes is uploaded under the same old name on the homepage - when running the GUI it will say '0.9.2.5 B'.
- 720p avs export with animated background bugfix. - 720p 1080p animation tool X value bugfix. You can also read up on the subtitle tags her: http://aegisub.cellosoft.com/docs/ASS_Tags If you come up with some interestion tag combinations then let me know and I'll add them to DSG. | ||||||||||||||
| Ruso posted 2009 Sep 10 22:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi
I have the 0.9.2.2 version, and i'm trying to export an AVI video. I have a problem when i try to animate some slides (zoom effect), values of Position X and Y changes ¿randomly? Example: After i put the Position Y value to 100 in 'Pan, Zoom and Rotate' Box (setting keys correctly) and press Okay, when i return to configure this, the value is set to 69, and X position is reset to 180. (Sorry about my english) Thanks for the feedback and congratulations for your work! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 10 23:33 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI
Video tutorial [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctV1Rt6vmbM[/video] Here's a 10 min. video tutorial showing a lot of the functions of DSG. See how to: - Import photos - Use Shift or Ctrl to select more slides. - Import Music - Set format - PAL(Europe) or NTSC(U.S.)? - Set background - Safe Area - Change order of slides - Change transitions - Add subtitles - Double left click to preview two slides - Right click to open Slide Settings - Font - Use mouse wheel to go frame by frame - Add animation - Use negative transition durations to overlap - Burn DVD Have fun!! @ Ruso - If you're working in 720P there was an Animation tool bug where the Y values moved up each time the tool was opened - this bug is fixed in '0.9.2.5 B' mentioned above. If you add animation to more slides in one go, then all these slides are linked and changing the animation of one of then will change them all. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 12 07:42 | ||||||||||||||
| 0.9.2.6
- Paint App & AvsP access from 'Slide Settings' window. - Add Ssa tags to all selected slides. - Unlimited number of animation keyframes. - Paint app path bug. Here are the "new" buttons in the Slide Settings menu:  | ||||||||||||||
| hoinar posted 2009 Sep 14 03:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin, thanks for going on with your work...
Re: last dsg version posted (don't know if these observations could have been valid for previous versions 'cause I didn't try... ) 1. saving subtitles as *.srt the line breaks are lost i.e. a subtitle like "there should be a line break\Nhere" is output as "there should be a line breakhere"... don't know if is really important, just let you know... 2. saving subtitles as *.ssa does not produce any file, it seems it doesn't save it in this format (except saving as *.all but in this way the whole show is processed and takes time... ). 3. colors in the dvd format film output seem to be very different (either on pc monitor or tv) from those in the avi format for ex. 4. can we suppose that if an image used in slideshow is cropped to correct dimensions for the output film i.e. 1280x720 px for a 720p film or 720x576 px for a PAL film... and no pre-process neither post-process is used... these images are not processed in any way by dsg (except, of course, the action of the video codec used for the output file)... ? because the quality seem to be bit different: the actual image and a screen capture from the movie when displaying an image for long time... Thanks for your time. | ||||||||||||||
| hoinar posted 2009 Sep 14 03:21 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry... the same post went the second time... maybe ad admin can delete the duplicate...Hi tin2tin, thanks for going on with your work...
Re: last dsg version posted (don't know if these observations could have been valid for previous versions 'cause I didn't try... ) 1. saving subtitles as *.srt the line breaks are lost i.e. a subtitle like "there should be a line break\Nhere" is output as "there should be a line breakhere"... don't know if is really important, just let you know... 2. saving subtitles as *.ssa does not produce any file, it seems it doesn't save it in this format (except saving as *.all but in this way the whole show is processed and takes time... ). 3. colors in the dvd format film output seem to be very different (either on pc monitor or tv) from those in the avi format for ex. 4. can we suppose that if an image used in slideshow is cropped to correct dimensions for the output film i.e. 1280x720 px for a 720p film or 720x576 px for a PAL film... and no pre-process neither post-process is used... these images are not processed in any way by dsg (except, of course, the action of the video codec used for the output file)... ? because the quality seem to be bit different: the actual image and a screen capture from the movie when displaying an image for long time... Thanks for your time. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 14 06:22 | ||||||||||||||
The tags are only for ssa subtitles - and completely removed from srt.
Yes, that's a bug. Fix one thing and break some other thing...
Everything exported from DSG is in yv12(HCenc needs this) colorspace which has a limited range compared to ex. RGB32.
The images are scaled, temporary saved as ebmp(lossless I hope) and converted to yv12 before rendered to whatever codec(compressed). If you are using an animated background the blacklevel of the images is pushed up(by 16) during processing, because yv12 doesn't support alpha channel and then the background is keyed/masked out and the blacklevel of the images is pulled back to the correct level. NB. when previewing slideshows with an animated background it's in reduced by 2 in size. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 14 11:41 | ||||||||||||||
| 0.9.2.7
- New: Convert slides to Avisynth script and edit in AvsP. - SSA export bugfix. If you click the Avisynth button and you selected slide is an image or an avi then DSG can convert(make an avs script) open that file in AvsP for editing.  | ||||||||||||||
| Eeo posted 2009 Sep 15 11:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry if I am on the but I am new to the forum so if I am on the wrong thred i apologise, the problem I am having is but i cannot seem to export to gdf as it is not an option | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 15 12:36 | ||||||||||||||
| GFD(GUI for DVDauthor) is DVD only and therefore 720p and 1080p is not supported(in Project Settings). | ||||||||||||||
| Eeo posted 2009 Sep 15 13:33 | ||||||||||||||
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| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 16 02:56 | ||||||||||||||
| For the next version of DVD slideshow GUI I could use some help with updating the translations in Dutch and French. It is easily done by downloading poEdit and either the Dutch or French .po file which then can be opened in poEdit. When you're finished translating the missing and yellow lines save as .po and and send me that file(use the PM function at videohelp to get in contact with me).
There are 38 strings missing translations and 84 fuzzy ones(which needs to be checked). :) If you want to start up a new translation in a new language(ex. Russian, Italian or Spanish...) open this file here template.pot in poEdit(or Gorm - which can use google translate to suggest translations) and start translating. I'm in the process of setting up translation files in Launchpad, but apparently it takes a long time for them to approve of the files, but eventually Launchpad will make translating DSG much easier(no poEdit). | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 17 09:45 | ||||||||||||||
| Need help for translating DVD slideshow GUI to your language!
Now the template is up on Launchpad: https://translations.launchpad.net/dvdslideshowgui/trunk The easy way now to update/make new translations for DSG is by registering at http://launchpad.net Under you new profile you need to set 'Your preferred languages' and then hit Translation. Now your language should be among the languages available for translation. Here's a tutorial on translating in Launchpad: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivBnJzAdk-g[/video] | ||||||||||||||
| dinh posted 2009 Sep 19 18:31 | ||||||||||||||
| need help, i found dvd slideshow gui with big font, color subttile is very exciting, can you show me how to do that? i madea text file .srt and used avisynth but it gives me black and white text only.
i got problem with dvd slideshow gui: 1. i clicked on paint icon, it asked me where or which paint pgram, i clicked the close box (x icon on top right corner) it then pop up again and again constantly, it have to use alt+ctrl+del to terminate the program | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 19 20:55 | ||||||||||||||
| Subtitle tags are only for ssa subtitles not srt. I'll check up on the other thing later, but I can't right now. | ||||||||||||||
| dinh posted 2009 Sep 19 22:42 | ||||||||||||||
| i used a program, srt to ssa converter to convert .srt into .ssa, i opened with media player classic and it pop up message "vsfilter error line 6" and media classic shown "Textsub: can't open textsub.ssa"
how to do it please? i just want to insert some unicode texts with different colour and font size into my clip. black and white subtitle is ok but i like it better since i saw dvd slideshow gui, and another problem is srt to ssa convert can't handle unicode :( | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 20 02:35 | ||||||||||||||
I'm not really sure how I can help you. If you used some other program to convert srt to ssa, then it's properly those people behind that program you should ask your questions. However if you ask how to add colors to your subtitles and change fonts and their sizes and such in DSG you should take a look at the tutorial video(4 min. mark) a few posts above this one(http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-870.html#2004298). Most of the ass tags are useable: http://aegisub.cellosoft.com/docs/ASS_Tags Alternatively you can export to .all and get a m2v and a ssa etc. which I believe can be loaded into some subtitle editing program like Aegisub to get much more control subtitle styling. [Edit: The tutorial is now up on Blip.tv in a higher quality here!] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 23 11:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Thanks to Onno the Dutch translation has been fully updated and thanks to Centauri39 the German translation has been fully updated. French still needs 124 strings.
https://translations.launchpad.net/dvdslideshowgui/trunk/+pots/dvdslideshowgui All other languages have 360 strings yet to be translated. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 25 12:17 | ||||||||||||||
| While I'm waiting/hoping for some more translations to be completed, here's a preview of improved zoom quality in the upcoming version of DSG. Texts are done in DSG too.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE-XejlByWU[/video] The stuttering is thanks to YouTube. :( | ||||||||||||||
| hoinar posted 2009 Sep 30 03:03 | ||||||||||||||
Hi tin2tin... tried to insert a simple avs script
after a couple of image slides... some questions: 1. could not edit the script from dsg: right-click on "test.avs" slide -> slide settings -> use avs icon... the result was a new blank window in Avsp with the following messages (after I closed it): 
dsg could not realise that the script path is C:\test.avs ? 
Neither the avs button from menu bar didn't work. 2. would it be possible to add subtitle to an avs / avi slide ? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Sep 30 05:29 | ||||||||||||||
| Are you using 0.9.2.7? I can't remember, if I fixed that in that version or it's in the upcoming version.
It's is not possible add subtitles from DSG to avi/avs, but you can do that in avisynth - check the Subtitle avisynth command. | ||||||||||||||
| hoinar posted 2009 Oct 01 00:27 | ||||||||||||||
Yes, I'm using the latest version so, probably, this need to be fixed... | ||||||||||||||
| bit5 posted 2009 Oct 05 08:31 | ||||||||||||||
| hello!
I need help! Already second day I try to make slideshow as on example Motion Background - SpinWater (http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/index.html) Somebody, give me step by step description, please. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 05 09:20 | ||||||||||||||
| If you're asking in more general terms how to add a motion background, here's how you do that:
In 'Project Settings' menu use the safe area function - so you can see the background around the image. The hit 'Background' button and go to the 'DVD slideshow GUI/Backgrounds' folder. Here you'll find various .avs files which can be used as motion backgrounds. When you loaded one play in the player to watch the background in action(some are to heavy for realtime playback - and some fade up from black). Let me know if it is that speciffic effect you're after, and if none of the included does what you're after, then I'll have to look on my old computer for that plugin. That speciffic motion background effect might not be included in the download or called something else(I can't remember). | ||||||||||||||
| bit5 posted 2009 Oct 05 09:38 | ||||||||||||||
| No. How I can create my motion background (as Motion Background SpinWater)?
In example SpinWater: 1. The slideshow is firstly exported as avs 2. Then a FreeFrame effect is added to the avs-code 3. Then the avs file is used as background in the slideshow ......... What it is necessary to make second point (Then a FreeFrame effect is added to the avs-code)? What FreeFrame effect it is necessary to use? It is necessary to insert effect into what place of a avs-code? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 05 10:08 | ||||||||||||||
| The thing shown in that video with the 'foreground images' used in sync as 'background' is now the default way most motionbackgrounds are used, so there is no need for following those instructions in the video.
Try to open some of the 'DVD slideshow GUI/Backgrounds' .avs(avisynth) files in Notepad to see how a FreeFrame plugin is used in avisynth (NB! not all of them are using freeframe plugins) As mentioned I can't remember if the Spinwater FreeFrame effect/avisynth script is included in the DSG pagage or even if that still is the name of the avs/plugin. On Freeframe: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-780.html#1974416 http://forum.videohelp.com/topic369161.html#1977139 On making new FreeFrame plugins(out of old ones): http://ffrend.sourceforge.net/ | ||||||||||||||
| bit5 posted 2009 Oct 05 10:16 | ||||||||||||||
| >As mentioned I can't remember if the Spinwater FreeFrame effect/avisynth script is included in the DSG pagage or even if that still is the name of the avs/plugin.
DSG does not contain effect the SpinWater (I have not found) :( ok, thanks | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 05 11:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Okay, try to unzip these files and add them all to DVD slideshow GUI/Backgrounds and restart DVD slideshow GUI.
http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/Backgrounds.zip They are called backspiralblur - backspiralblur2 - backspiralwave. You might need to render the slideshow before actually seeing the effect. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 05 11:40 | ||||||||||||||
| I've just added a slight zoom to the effects above - that might give better results if safearea is used.
So redownload them and try again. Pls, let me know if that works for you... | ||||||||||||||
| alevon posted 2009 Oct 06 03:44 | ||||||||||||||
| When a motion background is used, the video size is reduced by 2.. Why? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 06 04:25 | ||||||||||||||
| Is it this issue you're refering to?
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-870.html#2003380 That should be solved in the latest release. | ||||||||||||||
| bit5 posted 2009 Oct 07 05:16 | ||||||||||||||
is working! thank you very much! | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 10 08:09 | ||||||||||||||
| DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.2.8 is out.
- New: Translations update(Launchpad) - New: Ajustable quality of preview/render of animations. - New: Translation menu acces. - New: Open .dsg files by double click on desktop. - New: Some new motion backgrounds. - New: 'Project Settings' clean up. - Bugfix: Avs blacklevel on still background - Bugfix: Zoom calibration - Bugfix: Wipe_Up - Bugfix: Paint app: First copy corrected. - Bugfix: Wheel over end of 'Project Settings' Media Player crash fixed. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 24 13:17 | ||||||||||||||
| New slideshow with photos by Vivian Maier:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbcl2MDtLp0[/video] | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Oct 29 02:31 | ||||||||||||||
| I came across a tutorial in russian on how to make a slideshow matched to audio duration:
(It's version 0.9.1.0 - some interface things has been changed since that version) [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjdAdNv7BcI[/video] And this is the resulting video: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSJSKHLQwv0[/video] @ vitvas1979. Thanks for making this tutorial. :) | ||||||||||||||
| ak79 posted 2009 Nov 02 08:24 | ||||||||||||||
| I suppose there must always be a transition time of at least +-3 frames and there is a duration time of at least 3 frames.
My problem is that i have a few images(4 images) which i want to play very fast one after another to produce the impression of movement. I converted them to an .avi with virtualdubmod and 25 fps and 720x576 an imported the file in my DVDSlideshowGui in order to combine it with my other normal images i use in the presentation. The problem is that suddenly the sound stops. For the avi i used full processing mode and no compression. What went wrong? Any suggestions how i can do it in an more appropriate way with DVDslideshowGui? | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 02 09:49 | ||||||||||||||
| When using an avi as a slide the audio of that avi is used. If there is no audio on you avi then you'll hear nothing at that point of the slideshow.
If you want to add the unbroken audio over the entire slideshow, then this can be done with a bit of Avisynth scripting. First export your slideshow to .avs(Avisynth script) Then open that file in Notepad and add these two lines to the end of the script and correct the path:
Now save that .avs script and import it in DVD slideshow GUI as a slide or use ex. Super to render it. You can read up on the Audiodub command. | ||||||||||||||
| ak79 posted 2009 Nov 03 09:46 | ||||||||||||||
| @tin2tin
Thx 4 helping me out and responding that quickly. I found another very simple workaround which fits better to my project because i only want to embedd the avi into the imagesequence. And my avi is very short 5/25 sec. . I can not determine the exact sound which should belong to the avi and cut it out correctly with audacity:(. My workarround is: Include the avi export the .dsg file in DSG to avi without choosing sound ->myREAlproject. Use a "dummy" pic with the same duration and transition as the avi and replace the avi with this dummy Choose the sound of your choice export the .dsg file in DSG to avi without choosing sound ->myREAlproject->myDUMMYproject Simply, use the soundfile(ac3? or something like that) gained from myDUMMYproject for myREAlproject -> Seems to work :D | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 03 10:38 | ||||||||||||||
| Alternatively the .avs can be used loss less in Movie Maker by following this tutorial: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic352601.html#1858882
In Movie Maker edit your video and audio etc. | ||||||||||||||
| george84 posted 2009 Nov 03 11:09 | ||||||||||||||
| I find DSG a very interseting tool. Till now I tried to put a slideshow on a USB stick in a proprietary Philips format, but now I think that DVD format will be more standard.
However there are many bugs in version 9.2.8. I work in 1920*1080 format and all my slides are .jpg in exactly this format. Problems: 1. Burn to DVD seems to create not a DVD Iso but perhaps something like Blue Ray. My workaround is to use a mpeg transport stream created in a directory .../STREAM. 2. Export slideshow as .all creates four files but the video file has only one slide in it. 3. In Pan, Zoom and Rotate window I have to set a zoom value of 63 to see the whole slide in this window. This way it is impossible to work. 4. There is a good way to define the subtitles for a selection of slides, but there is no way to clear subtitles just as easily. I suggest to add a value "Reset" or "None" in "Photo Data" combobox. Positive: DSG never crashes, very powerful tool. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 03 12:59 | ||||||||||||||
The BluRay export hasn't been tested much - I haven't any BluRay player myself and my virtual deamon BluRay drive software trail periode is over. Sorry. There was a lot of request before I added the HD ratios - but after I spend (too) much time on adding them - there wasn't much interest after all. :wink:
It does create an iso - that's the file Imgburn burns. NB. Export to DVD menus - doesn't work for BluRay export - it's DVDs only(I forgot to remove from the menu when HD res are used)
Yes, that looks like a bug.
That's a bug in the Interface - a zoom value of 100 will give make your entire slide to be visible in the final slideshow(check with preview button).
Select the all the slides to delete subtitles from and open slide settings - delete all characters in the textbox and okay. If there are no characters in the textbox add one and delete it - the values of slides settings menu will only be added to slides if a change is noted.
Originally it was Nothing - but there wasn't any space in the interface to writing Photo Data outside the combobox... BTW. HD video is rendered with HCenc - to m2v formats - You might get a better quality by exporting to .avs and render that in x264. Thanks for those bug reports. I have a lot of other things in real life to do right now - so please don't expect a bug fix release from me anytime soon. | ||||||||||||||
| marcel960 posted 2009 Nov 03 16:13 | ||||||||||||||
| Hello,
I hope someone can help me with the following problem. I'm trying to make a falling postcard animation in PAL16:9. (DSG v. 0.9.2.8 ) I'm using overlay as transition. As soon as i start making animations, I'm getting error messages when when exporting. - ERROR, splice: frame sizes don't match - and sometimes an error with something like "not a multiple of 16" Background is background_dark.jpg (but also tried others). Also tried PAL4:3, same errors Sometimes there's no problem, changing order of photo's can give a different result. What doe these error messages mean and what can i do against it ? Please advise, Thanks | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 03 16:30 | ||||||||||||||
| There still seems to be issues in the animation tool after I added P.A.R. sigh.
Try to use the versions of DSG with a version number lower than 0.9.2.1. Btw. does any of the photos have odd number widths/heights? | ||||||||||||||
| george84 posted 2009 Nov 04 11:05 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin
Thank you for the fast reply to my bug report. One more wish for the future. It would be nice to be able to add slides with "drag and drop". Often you have a photo program like picasa or photoshop where you can easily make collections of photos. For example all photos with flowers. Then you could just select them and drag them to DSG. Thank you | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 04 11:36 | ||||||||||||||
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| marcel960 posted 2009 Nov 04 13:46 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
Thanks for your fast reply. What do you mean with "odd number widths/heights". Is there a certain rule for dimensions of the photos ? The photo's i'm using are having various dimensions, if that's waht you mean. I will try version 9.2.0 tonight and let you know the result. Regards | ||||||||||||||
| marcel960 posted 2009 Nov 04 15:20 | ||||||||||||||
| Tried v 9.2.0 and it works !
It started again wit some errors (error in frame nr. [all]) wit green screen as result. Removed the first photo (which I added back later again, without problems) and problem was solved. Animations, with and wihtout safety zone, and even with dropshadow background. All perfect. Thanks a lot ! :) | ||||||||||||||
| cadic posted 2009 Nov 05 01:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
After installed DVD Slideshow GUI, i saw a source file Source/DVDsGUI_source.wxb. Is this the sourc eof of DVD Slideshow GUI? I try to run it with wxbBasic (ver 2.0 & 0.51 ) but it is not OK. How to compile and run this source??? Thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 05 02:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Why do you want to do that? | ||||||||||||||
| marcel960 posted 2009 Nov 05 16:17 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi Tin2tin,
Yesterday I installed v9.2.0 which I downloaded from an unknown site (couldn't find better) and some program to share the resulting slideshow with family. Today, big problems with my computer. I had to reinstall the whole PC. (still busy) Can you tell me, what is a safe place to download version 9.2.0 ? Thanks. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 05 16:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Sorry to hear that. Old versions can be found here on Videohelp:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVD_slideshow_GUI/old-versions#download | ||||||||||||||
| marcel960 posted 2009 Nov 05 17:09 | ||||||||||||||
| My own fault :(
Never download form unknown sources. And it could also have been the other program for sharing. Thanks for the link ! | ||||||||||||||
| george84 posted 2009 Nov 06 01:52 | ||||||||||||||
| I would like some advice how to create the best quality slide show.
Assume all my slides are originally 1600*900 jpegs. My screen has 1920*1200 resolution. Now I have two options for the project settings "720p" or "1080p". a) If I use 720p everything is straightforward. b) If I use 1080p then the finished show will have a background. So I was thinking of resizing the images to 1920*1080, and then using 1080p. My questions: 1. Do I really achieve better quality when I resize (using option b)? 2. If yes is there a way to do this automatically in DSG (in preproces images or directly in AVS script)? Thank you for any advice | ||||||||||||||
| george84 posted 2009 Nov 06 02:19 | ||||||||||||||
| There seems to be a bug when displaying IPTC information.
IPTC information remains blank when I use "Caption" in DSG. IPTC information displays correctly in IrfanView and in Photoshop. I attach a jpeg which has IPTC information which doesn' show up in DSG. 2002_0801_153256aa_edited_16to9.jpg | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 06 02:20 | ||||||||||||||
| 1) 1080p is a higher resolution than 720p.
http://www.videohelp.com/glossary?0 http://www.thebestplasmatv.com/guides/720p-vs-1080p/ 2) You can add a slight zoom to all the images so the background will be covered. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 06 02:38 | ||||||||||||||
| DSG is using Jhead to extract the data.
Let me know if Jhead can extract the comment you're missing. Maybe you could try to update Jhead first. | ||||||||||||||
| george84 posted 2009 Nov 06 10:39 | ||||||||||||||
| I did add a zoom of 122 to all pictures so that the background is covered (in Animation window). However this increases the encoding time by a factor of 10. So I think I stick with 720P.
Thanks for your idea anyway | ||||||||||||||
| george84 posted 2009 Nov 13 10:16 | ||||||||||||||
This bug exists in Jhead. I informed the author. Thank you. | ||||||||||||||
| marcel960 posted 2009 Nov 13 15:26 | ||||||||||||||
| HI tin2tin,
I'm trying to make a 'falling postcard' slideshow with dsg 9.2.0. Format is PAL 16:9. When exporting, first slide has the right size. All the other slides are almost half the height. Total width where the postcards are falling is the whole screen, height is only half the screen. Using dsg version 9.2.0 is because you advised this to avoid error messages when exporting (previous forum page). It's happening in all cases, using safe area or no safe area. PAL 4:3 is OK. Do you have an advise how to sovle this. Regardsl | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 14 02:21 | ||||||||||||||
| Are all your photos the same size as the first one? If not you may have to add animation to each individual slide.
ATM. I'm do not have to time to work on DSG so I hope you'll find a solution. | ||||||||||||||
| ernstblaauw posted 2009 Nov 15 08:59 | ||||||||||||||
| Hi tin2tin,
I was wondering if it would be possible to add a randomize feature to reorder the slides randomly. The images here are added alphabetically, but that's the order I do not want. With regards, Ernst | ||||||||||||||
| Safesurfer posted 2009 Nov 15 09:12 | ||||||||||||||
You could simulate this by using the Details view in the Import dialog box and clicking on the Size column, that should mix the images fairly randomly. | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 17 16:54 | ||||||||||||||
| Came across a greyscale transition pack:
Download the png pack and unzip the files into dvd slideshow gui/transitions folder and restart DVD slideshow GUI. http://effectswiz.com/free-effects-downloads/doc_download/484-sd-png-collection And check out the preview here: http://effectswiz.com/free-effects-downloads/cat_view/19-sd-alpha-wipes/18-png A bit more on greyscale transitions here: http://cv.cinelerra.org/transitions.php | ||||||||||||||
| tin2tin posted 2009 Nov 20 11:43 | ||||||||||||||
| @ marcel960
I'm trying to reproduce your error without succes. Could you in 0.9.2.8 make a short slideshow which gives you the mentioned error. Add resolutions as subtitles to all images. Save as .dsg(a project file) and open that file in notepad. Copy this text into a personal message for me here at Videohelp? The french and italian translations could need some love to get them finished for the next release. Help out translating on Launchpad. |
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