TyTool Alpha #7r10, VSplit Alpha beta #3.31b1, DVD output...

[jdiner]

Alright. The rules in this thread are the same as the last one for my tools. A great many things have happened recently. But best to start with a charter for this thread.

Just like before these are rules for this thread, not the forum. If you want to discuss things deemed off limits here make your own threads and set your own rules. But if you decide to participate here then please follow the guidelines.

So the rules for this thread are:

1- NO FLAMES AND NO ARGUMENTS... I am through trying to be nice on this as it just plain does not work. I will without reservation delete anything that shows up here that could be considered either of the above. Enough is enough.

2- It has become clear that we have 2 distinct camps with zealots in both. Fine. Use my stuff. Use Olaf's. I couldn't care less. Many of us got dragged into a war we didn't know we were supposed to be involved in... So a new rule. We discuss ONLY my own tools here... Leave the rest in their own threads! This is not intended to be an attack but rather to stop them. You don't like me. Fine. You don't like my tools fine. You don't like those that use them. You're an ***** but fine for hating people you have never ever met so just go somewhere else.

3- NO ADVERTISING FOR OTHER TOOLS. Again this thread is again about Vsplit/TyTool. If you have something cool to use in place of or even with them the take it to a different thread. Any post by anyone about "you really should use X instead..." is gone the moment I or some of other mods see it.

This is still an open forum. Create your own thread and have at it. But such posts are entirely unwelcome here.

4- Feel free to discuss various OS/wishes/desires/etc.... At some point we should support as much as is possible.

5- Feel free to ask for features but be aware that I am making no promises except to work on things in general... I mean it. Ask. But don't hound me or anyone else, that accomplishes nothing. If you think of something that would be cool let me know. I will add it to the list.

6- I suppose I should say it... I reserve the right to disappear at any time. Just like you do. When life interferes hobbies get put on hold. Having said that it will be obvious when you look at the new toolset that I have been putting in a great deal of time on it. Hope that it helps every do what they want to with their Tivos...

--jdiner

[jdiner]

TyTool 7r10 with DVD Support. The attachment has this version of the tooset in it.

We are now at 7r10. This version is really 7r9 with the removal of the jtee.exe problems so that things work all the way through again.

This version features more general bug fixes and some serious revisions to the DVD menu code.

As always check the release notes found inside the .zip for a detailed list of what has changed.

--jdiner

[jdiner]

In this archive you will find the Win32 versions of:

TyTool7r10.exe
TyTool.ini
Vsplit3.31b1.exe
GopEditor 0.07
TyTranscodeDLL.dll


Please see the release statement for the full version for details and as always the release notes in the zip archive.

--jdiner

[jdiner]

Ok. Just to be very clear. Any upcoming releases for the tools will be found in the above 2 posts. Luckily they are at the very start in this thread and so it should get rid of the last problems with people not knowing where to find them.

--jdiner

[snoopy]

AwesomeNewTools

Sync works GREAT even with pretty menus and chapters in DVD Lab 1.2.1

I go straight from the downloaded TYTool7r5 mpg, into the latest DVD Lab with absolutely PerfectResults!!

Anyone care give a little back please check this http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...threadid=25526

GREAT WORK AS ALWAYS!

[eastwind]

Originally posted by snoopy
AwesomeNewTools

Sync works GREAT even with pretty menus and chapters in DVD Lab 1.2.1

I go straight from the downloaded TYTool7r5 mpg, into the latest DVD Lab with absolutely PerfectResults!!

GREAT WORK AS ALWAYS!

Snoopy.

Have you had any issues with DVD-Lab 1.2.1 and the Title(Root) Menu? I have a Sony DVD changer and when I make a DVD with 1.2.1 I never get to see the first menu. Instead it rolls right to the first movie. Pressing the various menu buttons on my remote do not help either...just back to the first movie.

EW

[snoopy]

Originally posted by eastwind
Snoopy.

Have you had any issues with DVD-Lab 1.2.1 and the Title(Root) Menu? I have a Sony DVD changer and when I make a DVD with 1.2.1 I never get to see the first menu. Instead it rolls right to the first movie. Pressing the various menu buttons on my remote do not help either...just back to the first movie.

EW

Mine does that too. It only does it for me though if I have played the DVD before. The very first time I play a DVD, I get the menu. Subsequent times, I do not. It rolls right into the first movie. Fortunately for me (and many others i think), I do have a "menu" button on the remote that puts me there.

[jmhenry5150]

jdiner -

YOU ARE THE MAN!

Audio from MPEG II works very nice on my SONY DVD player now...

One small problem, chapter stops pause on me every time. I will goto a chapter stop using the >>| button and it goes to it an freezes - the only way to get it going is to use the fast forward button...I can't remember it doing this in a previous version, however it may be because of the audio conversion...

No biggies as I now have sound for every disc I make...I can live without them...!

Thank you very much for all your work and putting up with us "users" ...

-Mike

[jmhenry5150]

snoopy -

Would you mind posting a workflow with the new version out now? I would be interested in trying that out!

-Mike

[jdiner]

Well with kmon's help I finally managed to track down the bug that was causing the directory dialogs to populate with absolutely nothing. Turns out that M$ broke something in the basic sys-libs and I was also doing something wrong.

Brakes down to 2 whole lines of code where I was doing an equals with a bit-flag rather than a bit-wise and. This is now fixed and it should solve the remaining directory problems.

Give me just a minute and I will have TyTool7r6 up.

--jdiner

[jdiner]

Alright.

I have been giving this some thought. I am pretty done with audio transcoding. I will spend a few minutes looking at what it would take to get the "everything to dolby" transcoding for those that are doing movies. But I put on hold everything I wanted to do the transcoding for others.

You should all send your thanks to Rowan for TyTranscode. A nice piece of work that is...

So now what I am going to work on next. Here is my list of priorities as of this moment. But subject to change as things come up.

1- Get a vob importer so that I can fix some of the bad disks I made a while back. I actually have about 95% of this done right now. (This should work for MPEG files as well.)

2- Once the vob importer is done I can rebuild the bad disks and really start to clean off my machine. A major necessity at this point.

3- With the vob/mpeg importer done it should also be possible to generate key files and edit and what not from the generated mpegs. (Not a crucial thing for me as I just want it remux'ed as is...)

4- Add a 3rd importer (tyStream is first, vob/mpeg is second) for the already split streams. Do keep in mind that these need to be "perfect" with no holes to work. But if they were then I can decode them enought to mux back together with reasonable results.

5- Finally get back to my changes/fixes/enhancements to GopEditor. I have had some great thoughts on this over the last little while and I have not had time to do any of them. Infact it has been so long that I just realized I don't remember all of them that I was going to do. Rats...

6- Get back into the simple menu generation I built.
- Selectable font.
- Selectable color.
- Selectable BMP backdrop image.
- Templates for the overlay so that the buttons can be anywhere you want.
- Multi-page menus for show that are smaller on disk.
- Savable menu's for later editing.
- Have the menu dialog show the overall size of the selected files.
- etc... etc... etc...

Anything crucial that I have forgotten?

--jdiner

[LuckMan212]

tested w/ 7r5 and 7r6 ...

when I push "refresh" in TyTool, i get a "nowshowing.txt" file dumped into my C:\ directory...

any reason for this? if tytool needs it as a "temp file" can it automatically delete it when its done?

i like to keep my root dir "clean" ....


THANKS!! TyTool is THE BEST!

[asicguyca]

Jdiner,

I was having some trouble with my pc crashing and the tivo remote not responding when transferring tystreams to my pc.

My pc seems more stable and I have been able to transfer several streams overnight. I still have an occasional crash, but they don't seem related to tytool.

The remote issue is livable now that I understand what is going on. However, I think it would a nice feature to have a pause button on the tytool window to pause the download to allow normal remote function. Not worth a lot of effort if it is difficult.
It would be nice to have a CANCEL button as well.

One other nicety would be to have a button to save cut files rather than having to pick it from the menu, since all the other work centers around the buttons to start, stop and add cuts.

These are very minor ideas just for convenience and is in no way intended as criticism for these tremendous tools. I hope you don't get tired of my thanking you for your work on these tools.

I am very new to the video extraction and it has been pretty painless so far.

Another feature that I think would be very cool would be having tytool just watch for new tystreams to transfer to the pc. I don't know if this is possible, difficult, etc. Just an idea to relieve some manual work.

Thanks again

[snoopy]

Originally posted by jmhenry5150
snoopy -

Would you mind posting a workflow with the new version out now? I would be interested in trying that out!

-Mike

It's very simple...

1) Use TYTool 7r6 to download the mpg files using TYTools "multiplex mode".

2) I then use DVDLab upgraded to 1.2.1 beta to create the CD using this quick start guide.

3) I then use the flexible multiplexer option from within DVDLab to create my DVD-Rs.

[jmhenry5150]

snoopy,

where is the audio conversion to AC3 fit in here?