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Re: Unable to open your tool

Posted on: 2008/11/27 9:42 #381

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@TiredOfLife

Most of my drives (and the one the file was on) is 4.0's FFS. I also have a couple formatted with SFS. I also tried copying the file to ram and running it from there.

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daveyw

Re: Unable to open your tool

Posted on: 2008/11/24 9:40 #382

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@TiredOfLife

Thanks. Very helpful of the author to upload it like that.

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daveyw

Unable to open your tool

Posted on: 2008/11/23 7:49 #383

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Hi,

I've had the error "Unable to open your tool [x]" pop up a couple of times on some software, specifically Stefan Rupprecht's SGarb, when I double click on the icon. Can someone tell me what's going wrong? I checked to make sure the file was a tool, not a project (a problem I recall from OS<=3).

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daveyw

Re: Looks like the sam is selling good?

Posted on: 2008/10/28 22:00 #384

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@Antique

I'm a long-time A1200 user who was itching to buy a SAM. However, in July, I had the opportunity to buy a 2nd hand A1, and jumped for that instead.

Some of the reading I did suggested that people felt the A1 was better, except for the USB 2. Does anyone want to comment on that?

I'm currently having an extention put on my house so buying a 2nd computer (3rd if you still count the 1200 ;) ) is out of the question right now, but maybe if ACube still have units to sell next year I'd take a look.

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daveyw

Re: OS4 + DVD

Posted on: 2008/10/26 10:21 #385

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@daveyw

I got DVPlayer to work with commercial DVDs. I found that I was using an older version of dvdvcd.plugin . Stephen, if you're reading this, it seem both files report the same version number, 51.2

I've also got PeeVOBill working as well, and have managed to copy at least 1 VOB from a commercial disc.

Still haven't sussed the problem I first encountered. Perhaps its caused by the default menu my Panasonic DVD recorder sticks onto mastered DVDs?

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daveyw

Re: I've not touched my Amiga 1200 for many YEARS !!!

Posted on: 2008/10/23 21:40 #386

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@vodkasoda

Quote:

vodkasoda wrote:
But I've now got it up and running, just as a games machine primarily. The biggest problem I have is that I can't remember how I've set it up !!!

IIRC, on the initial Workbench screen you could see your Workbench drawer, RAM, Floppy etc. However, I've got (I think !) MagicWorkBench (MagicWB) installed & when I boot it goes straight into a nice tidy window with 4 drawers in it, Workbench, Games, Work & Utilities ... I obviously knew what I was doing way back when !!!

My problem is ... how do I access the Floppy drive ? I can't find an icon for it anywhere ... otherwise, should I uninstall MagicWB (how ?) or is there a better OS for a 1200 with a HD these days ? If so, is it free, can I download it from a PC & copy it ?!?

Any advice greatly appreciated ...

MagicWorkbench (MWB) isn't an Operating System, it's just a set of icons.

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daveyw

Re: OS4 + DVD

Posted on: 2008/10/23 6:08 #387

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@ktadd

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Does anyone know if there is an incompatibilty with this drive? (ASUS DRW-2014S1)

Copy the VOB file from the DVD to your harddisk using PeeVOBill. Then you should be able to play/convert them.[/quote]

PeVOBill doesn't work either, reports "data read error".

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daveyw

Re: OS4 + DVD

Posted on: 2008/10/22 22:19 #388

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@daveyw

So far I'd only tried my own recorded disc. But now I've tried a couple of commercial discs and every one of them has failed. Whenever I tried and open them with e.g. DirOpus, they report read/write errors. DVPlayer/MPlayer lock up when I try and play either a file off the disc or the disc itself.

Does anyone know if there is an incompatibilty with this drive? (ASUS DRW-2014S1)

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daveyw

Re: OS4 + DVD

Posted on: 2008/10/22 22:12 #389

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@ktadd

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What is the file size of the VTS_01_1.VOB file. Is it smaller than the rest of your .VOB files? Is it the first or last VOB file in the order? What error does FFMpeg give you when you try to convert it. Something doesn't look right about this file since it doesn't report a Duration or bitrate. Can you play the file with MPlayer or DVPlayer?

The size of the file is 1073709056 bytes. There are two other VOBs on the disc of the same size, and a fourth of 1038516224 bytes. It's the first VOB.

FFMpeg doesn't actually give an error, it just produces a file that plays out as grey, with a picture size that seems to be that quoted in the info (176x144). Here's the output of a "Copy" operation as described above:

Command Executed:
"ffmpeg" -i "DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER:VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB" -vcodec copy "Misc:MP3s/Test.mpeg"

FFmpeg version SVN-r5969, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --cc=ppc-amigaos-gcc --enable-pthreads --disable-shared --extra-libs=-lpthread -lm --cross-compile --enable-amr_nb --enable-faad --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --extra-cflags=-/usr/local/include
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.11.0
libavformat version: 50.5.0
built on Aug 12 2006 21:30:31, gcc: 4.0.3 (AmigaOS build 20060509)
[h261 @ 0x6707f148]warning: first frame is no keyframe
Input #0, h261, from 'DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER:VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h261, yuv420p, 176x144, 25.00 fps(r)
Output #0, mpeg, to 'Misc:MP3s/Test.mpeg':
Stream #0.0: Video: h261, yuv420p, 176x144, q=2-31, 25.00 fps(c)
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
frame=820975 q=0.0 Lsize= 1056198kB time=32839.0 bitrate= 263.5kbits/s
video:1048544kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.729965%
==== DONE ====

Both DVPlayer and MPlayer can play the file of the disc.

The disc is a Mitsubishi DVD+R model # CDTR47J1

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daveyw

Re: OS4 + DVD

Posted on: 2008/10/22 7:43 #390

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@ktadd

Quote:

ktadd wrote:
Quote:

Varthall wrote:
@ktadd

In that case, MEncoder (another video conversion utility) can be compiled to have support for DeCSS. I believe my mencoder compile for OS4 has this feature disabled, I might make a new version with DeCSS enabled if someone needs it.

That would be nice. In the meantime you can use PeeVOBill to copy a VOB file from a DVD then use ffmpegGUI on it.

I took a look at PeeVOBill but couldn't make much sense of it. The documentation is pretty slender, and I got the impression all it did was copy the VOB from DVD onto another source (which DOpus can do).

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daveyw

Re: OS4 + DVD

Posted on: 2008/10/22 7:39 #391

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@ktadd

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FFMPEG can handle VOB files but if the VOB file is from a commercial DVD it's likely encrypted and FFMPEG can't handle encrypted VOB files.

A DVD VOB file typically contains an mpeg2 video stream and one or more audio streams. You can use ffmpegGUI (found on OS4Depot), to copy the video file and audio file to an mpeg format file but doing the following:

Start ffmpegGUI.
Set the video codec to "Copy".
Set the audio codec to "Copy".
Set the Output Format to ".mpeg".
Set the input file name to your VOB file.
Set the output file name or use the default.
Click on Start.

This will copy the video file and the first audio file to an mpeg file. If you want to copy something other than the first audio file have a look at the map option to ffmpeg. You can add the map options you desire in the "additional options" section of ffmpegGUI.

You can convert to other formats as well but you need to know the restrictions of the format your converting because ffmpegGUI doesn't restrict the settings. Hope this is helpful.

Thanks for that. I've tried a few more files, and ffmpeg is working, it's just one particular track on one disc that's giving me problems (and it had to be the first one I tried!!!). It's not a commercial DVD though, it's just a standard DVD I have used to copy my own material from VHS.

Here's the result from the "File Input Info" in FFMpegGUI:
FFmpeg version SVN-r5969, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --cc=ppc-amigaos-gcc --enable-pthreads --disable-shared --extra-libs=-lpthread -lm --cross-compile --enable-amr_nb --enable-faad --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --extra-cflags=-/usr/local/include
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.11.0
libavformat version: 50.5.0
built on Aug 12 2006 21:30:31, gcc: 4.0.3 (AmigaOS build 20060509)
[h261 @ 0x6853b148]warning: first frame is no keyframe
Input #0, h261, from 'DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER:VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h261, yuv420p, 176x144, 25.00 fps(r)
Must supply at least one output file

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daveyw

OS4 + DVD

Posted on: 2008/10/19 4:43 #392

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Hi,

I'm new to the A1/OS4, and have just added a DVD drive (ASUS DRW-2014S1).

I hope somehow can answer a couple of questions.

Firstly, I'm having problems with DVD-RAM discs. I get a read/write error when reading a disc, but does display a directory. Does OS4 need specialist software to read DVD-RAM?

Secondly, I'd like to copy DVD content to another format (e.g., MPEG)> I've fiddled with FFMPEG, but it can't seem to handle .VOB. Has anyone done this before?

Thanks for any info.

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