DiscomVOBulator not working.

[Mactrav]

Kai, I can not get Discom to work, after loading the dvd, it gets scanned and the chapters, titles, audio and languages appear. I select split and mplayer launches twice quickly and then the DVD is spit out and there is nothing to chapter mark in the next window. I have opened the terminal and ran top with no hitches, I have restarted, I have used ftwo, 1.02, 1.5, and 1.5.1. I have tried a clean system install. The DVD's were XMEN, friends vol.2, Tomcats, Spies like us, Scooby Doo Mysteries, Major League II, all have had correct iso disc labels, Capital letters and no spaces.

I hope this helps as this product looks like a winner. Thanks for all of your efforts and the teams effort, I for one appreciate it and want to help.

Mactrav

[wiedenu]

Exactly the same problem here. I don't know what's going on...I'm just glad I'm not stupid and making stupid mistakes.

Maybe I am though, who knows?

Anyhoo, forty-two still works great.

[Roger]

I had the same problem and then thought that maybe the spaces in the path problem that forty-two had might occur here also.

I removed all spaces in the destination paths and relaunched DiscomVOBulator and everything worked fine.

Not sure if it is the fix for you but I would try it...

-Roger

[wiedenu]

Nope. No luck here. Dang!

I have "Disco" in my Applications folder, and even renamed my harddrive so it had no spaces in it. No luck, with same response by Disco as before.

Roger, could you please describe the steps you are taking to get "Disco" to work?

Thanks.

[KaiCherry]

I had the same problem and then thought that maybe the spaces in the path problem that forty-two had might occur here also.

I removed all spaces in the destination paths and relaunched DiscomVOBulator and everything worked fine.

Not sure if it is the fix for you but I would try it...

-Roger

That would do it. This seems to be a *really* hard thing for folks to get past...no matter how many times me, bilestyle, ross or major post it.

This stuff is a candy shell around unix stuff. escaping characters that *nix doesn't like is a big, hairy deal, and often fails.

If you install the app in /Applications, and don't try to save to a path with spaces, commas, exclaimation points, parentheses or other troublesome characters, then everything should work fine.

I've been using unix for so long that its second nature to me to *not* use stuff like that in my paths.

[KaiCherry]

contact me via AIM please...it sounds like your download was somehow corrupted...if you msg me I can help you check or send you another one.

Right now, I'm working on a few features that I need (lol) to make me happier, namely more speed (the version in the "labs" now is actually faster than what was released), a switch for "No ISOs" to save space, and lazy chapter mode to auto-make chapters at 5,7,10,12 and 15min intervals, grabbing all the audio tracks automatically and subtitles.

The subs are are problem since the colors are funny...but it beats a blank

Actually, most of the above is working...the problem (not surprisingly(to me anyway)) is QuickTime.

Of course, when I add this stuff in, the price goes up, hee-hee.

We learned our lesson from forty-two, and I actually feel better about supporting something that is charged for. I even allow for personal abuse from anger (paying) users.

And no...Disco will never ever pull the chapters directly from the DVD, *never* grab the menus (that is sooo asking for it), change the region or strip Macrovison. It certainly will not support VOBs.

There is a line in the sand. Only one (idiot) company has chosen to cross this line, and hence has drawn the wrath of the MPAA and friends.

That idiot ain't me

-K

Kai, I can not get Discom to work, after loading the dvd, it gets scanned and the chapters, titles, audio and languages appear. I select split and mplayer launches twice quickly and then the DVD is spit out and there is nothing to chapter mark in the next window. I have opened the terminal and ran top with no hitches, I have restarted, I have used ftwo, 1.02, 1.5, and 1.5.1. I have tried a clean system install. The DVD's were XMEN, friends vol.2, Tomcats, Spies like us, Scooby Doo Mysteries, Major League II, all have had correct iso disc labels, Capital letters and no spaces.

I hope this helps as this product looks like a winner. Thanks for all of your efforts and the teams effort, I for one appreciate it and want to help.

Mactrav

[Mactrav]

Wied,

If you have another hard drive on your computer try outputting the file to that other hard drive this worked for me.

Mactrav

[KaiCherry]

Ya...I think this is a (stupid) bug (on my part) wrt unix paths on the root drive. I'll verify this and fix it in the AM.

-K

[Roger]

Roger, could you please describe the steps you are taking to get "Disco" to work?

Its pretty much like Kai described. Once I removed all spaces in the destination path it worked.

If your copy is not corrupt there is probably some illegal (in unix anyway) character in the destination path names. Also try another destination such as the root level of your drive and see if that works. Remember that even your drive name cannot have a space if you are saving to it.

-Roger

[KaiCherry]

Remember that even your drive name cannot have a space if you are saving to it.

-Roger

Not true

*nix ignores your boot drive's name completly; it is /

Hencen /Applications, /Users/Shared, etc.

-K

[Roger]

Not true

*nix ignores your boot drive's name completly; it is /Hencen /Applications, /Users/Shared, etc.

Oops. I meant other drives and forgot about the boot drive. Other drive names do matter though.

-Roger