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dupcak
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Post Posted: Mar 07, 2006 10:10 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
tin2tin wrote:
You can always test it on a RW disc or throw the resulting dvdfolders from gfd at mpc to see if there are working.

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.

tin2tin wrote:
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?

I've never tried to create chapters inside of dsg...

tin2tin wrote:

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?


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

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Post Posted: Mar 07, 2006 11:30 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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Actually it does play just fine on all players (software/hardware)


Great - good to know biggrin.gif

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when I tried to run from a directory with a space in the directory name, the program told me I couldn't.


Directory with space works ok in the next version - but not '-', so it'll have to check for that.

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tin2tin
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Post Posted: Mar 09, 2006 14:12 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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,
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tin2tin
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Post Posted: Mar 10, 2006 04:31 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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.

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tin2tin
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Post Posted: Mar 10, 2006 15:29 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
The install bug should be fixed now. Please report back here if you have any troubles with the installer.

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tin2tin
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Post Posted: Mar 11, 2006 09:18 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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
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tin2tin
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Post Posted: Mar 11, 2006 13:38 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Uploaded a version 0.62 which has avi export - get it at the usual place.
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hubbabub
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Post Posted: Mar 11, 2006 16:56 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
tin2tin wrote:
In the bottom of the first post here - is there a very nice rendered slideshow:
Terranuts Forum
Rapidshare: Hubbabub's slideshow

Thank you,
glad you liked it smile.gif


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tin2tin
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Post Posted: Mar 12, 2006 10:51 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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.

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dupcak
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Post Posted: Mar 12, 2006 11:59 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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

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Post Posted: Mar 12, 2006 16:00 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hi Dupcak,

Thanks for your helpfull remarks.

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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 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 sad.gif . But as I said it doesn't happen to me that often anymore.

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The music gets included without a problem which was a problem I had a while ago, but is no longer an issue.


BTW. the avi-encoder doesn't add music - sorry about that. Not on my computer anyway.

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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.


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.

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I did try removing the background image - but that didn't seem to work - it still included the default image.


There must be a background image - even if its just black.

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Despite the length of my comments - I still am very grateful for the program! Keep up the good work!


Thanks!

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ballywho
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Post Posted: Mar 18, 2006 07:07 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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.

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Post Posted: Apr 01, 2006 12:18 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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,
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remialdo
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Post Posted: Apr 02, 2006 03:44 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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 donīt know what people prefer, but i like portable applications, and this program save thing in the windows registry sad.gif

tin2tin
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Post Posted: Apr 02, 2006 15:27 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
@ remialdo
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I think that tje possibility to save the text as a subtitles file (str, sub..) it could be a good idea.

That might be a good idea - I've thought about it myself, however there are a couple of things I must do first.
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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

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.
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Another thing i donīt know what people prefer, but i like portable applications, and this program save thing in the windows registry

It's only avisynth using the registry, I guess it's for running avs files in the player ect.

Thanks,
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shotman
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Post Posted: Apr 03, 2006 04:16 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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.

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Post Posted: Apr 03, 2006 06:38 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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?

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shotman
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Post Posted: Apr 03, 2006 06:59 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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
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Post Posted: Apr 03, 2006 08:01 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Wow, Great work.

I am speechless, so I have to type this to say THANK YOU.

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Post Posted: Apr 04, 2006 12:14 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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,
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tin2tin
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Post Posted: Apr 09, 2006 16:56 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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,
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Post Posted: Apr 10, 2006 02:44 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Copacetix demo slideshow in xvid with music and animation.

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Post Posted: Apr 10, 2006 07:51 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Thank you tin2tin exclaim.gif
The program is getting better and better for every update.



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Post Posted: Apr 10, 2006 13:21 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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 blurdisolv