Yet another 2 bug reports!

Hi! Currently I can report 2 problems that may deserve a look at: ---------------------------------------- 1. If Shrink is used to preprocess the dvd and "Still image" is chosen to replace a video (300mb trailer), the resulting output (the trailer replaced with 80mb stills) causes an huge amount of segments (~3000!). Rebuilder hangs himself at segment 1209 - stops responding. Maybe a variable overflow? ---------------------------------------- 2. An ILVU title - being freed of logos with vobblanker - shows that the rebuilder suffers from missing sign checking, means I get nice -963.896KB of available video space displayed. Field Overall bitrate is empty. High/Low/Average is hence 100/100/0. Original DVD-title (the abyss PAL) is 7.46GB large. It may be possible (how can I check that?) that the ILVU parts are large than a dvd-5 itself, but some warning or error would avoid this... Let me know what I shall post additionally, cheers & happy debugging, NaN

re: #2 yes that happens if ilvu parts are bigger than dvd5 re:#1 no longer an issue, blank in rebuilder, not shrink. i.e. no preprocessing

Thanks for your reply! I'm sorry that I forgot to add I'm using version 080free, so I cannot blank with the rebuilder. However both cases are bugs and need to be taken care of. At least for the last it's simple parameter checking, 1 more if and it is solved. The first problem is of course not that easy to solve; however that the rebuilder stops responding should be avoided in any case. A simple condition - to error out if more than say 2000 segments are found during prepare - would solve that too. Cheers, NaN

The source of the problem is that creating still image playback does just that -- it replaces the stream with a series of still images (one every half second).... a still image is processed individually (even in an original authoring)... so the reason there is so many segmenst is because --> you have created that many segments! That's not a bug... it's a self inflicted injury. Still processing (in both DVD-RB and Shrink) is just a "trick" that allows you to save some space but still keep some semblance of the content. Yeah, the second issue is a problem. The fact is that DVD-RB just can't handle DVDs that have huge ILVU sections yet. It will by v1.00, though.

Just to be precise I've to say I used the still picture option and not the still image option; only difference being that the video is replaced with shrink's logo (I wanted to remove it anyway with vobblanker, i simply forgot it). @NobbyNobbs: I'm not sure how to understand your reply or the intention behind it. I *do* know what jdobbs said and I'm sure he doesn't need others to express himself. The situations I described have nothing to do with fixing bugs of other applications, they're simply cases that need to be avoided and treated in a clean manner - like showing an error. From a developers point of view there's no reason to accept an application hang if there's a simple solution like that. @jdobbs: I hope you consider a solution for the stills problem too and if it's only ignoring these. Otherwise shrink loses a nice feature and hence complicates the processing unnecessarily. Thanks for taking the time! NaN