DGDemux development

[Curly]

Sherman be like:

[Britney]

My dream last night, my Lord! A solid focused charge of inspiration, emanating sub-rays of love and euphoria. Could a shy Southern girl ask for more?

In my dream, DGDemuxGUI has a preview button for the selected MPLS file. So so easy now to see what's in a playlist. A simple way to do this is to just open DGIndexNV with the MPLS file, but it would be nice to make the non-nVidia guys happy too, because we aim to please.

Kisses,
Brit

[Rocky]

Britney again shows her intuitive brilliance and creativity.

Sweet dreams!

[Curly]

You can dream big with me Britney! Nyuck, nyuck, say no more.

[Guest 2]

We already have an INI file so it shouldn't be too hard.

Thx.

[Bullwinkle]

Guest 2 makes so many kick-ass feature requests that we should name him DGDemux co-designer.

Britney, great idea! Not difficult to see why everyone loves you. Instead of opening DGIndexNV, however, we can open MPC-HC with the MPLS file. That way we have audio and subs too, and no nVidia dependency.

[Guest]

How about letting the user pick/select the media player
MPC-BE/HC, MPV etc

[Rocky]

Makes sense, thank you.

[Rocky]

Here is a test version with the preview implemented. Please look at the included INI file as your model. Note that the syntax has changed for the output path line.

* Implement preview button. Uses the player defined in the INI file to play the selected MPLS file. Tested with DGIndexNV and MPC-HC.

* Issue -ang option only when there are multiple angles. This is purely cosmetic as it was ignored in any case.

* Populate the 'Output name' field with the program PID on startup, not after an MPLS is selected. Of course you can still edit it if you want.

* Removed the 'Show all MPLS' option and now always show them all. The option was useless and I wanted to save a line in the options area of the GUI.

* Disable Show and Preview buttons during demuxing.

http://rationalqm.us/dgdemux/binaries/DGDemux_test.rar

Your feedback will be appreciated.

[Guest]

Tried with 4 different players
MPC-HC ----good
MPC-BE -----launches player but mpls cannot be rendered
tried playing the mpls directly and got same result, not DGDemux issue
JRiver -------good
mpv.net -----launches media player but no attempt to play mpls
don't think its a DGDemux issue

EDIT
Can VDub2 be used as a media player?

EDIT 2
It launches VDub2 but it can't open a mpls file directly

[Rocky]

Thank you for your test results, gonca. If a player can open an MPLS and play it, then DGDemuxGUI will be able to use it for preview. I don't know if Vdub2 can open and play an MPLS, but I doubt it. Why don't you try it?

[Guest]

VDub2 cannot play mpls directly

[Britney]

Wow, Rocky. Thanks so much for making my dream a reality. Kisses.

[Guest]

Load a disc into DGDemuxGUI
Select playlist
Select preview
If config points to a media player all is good,
but if no media player is there then preview button stays highlighted for a while and then returns to normal.
Also, finished.wav and MVCCombine were not included

[Rocky]

If config points to a media player all is good,
but if no media player is there then preview button stays highlighted for a while and then returns to normal.

I'm not too concerned, but you're right, we need a check for that.

Also, finished.wav and MVCCombine were not included

Fixed, thank you. LICENSE file too.

[Britney]

Oh my! Dreams are consuming me and filling my head with silly ideas. Like this one: highlighting an M2TS file in the M2TS list, right clicking, and selecting Preview. Now we can see the pieces of the playlist and so so easy to see how things are put together.

Music is my heart and my soul, but I am a dreamer!

[Rocky]

Ah, Britney. Ethereal genius.

[Rocky]

Here is a test version with M2TS preview. It works like this: If no M2TS file is highlighted in the M2TS list, then the preview button previews the selected MPLS. If a file is highlighted in the M2TS list, then the preview button previews that M2TS file. Here is a little bonus: If you double-click an M2TS name it will select that name including the leading + (if any). But the + will be stripped off. So you can just double-click a name and hit preview, without worrying about the leading +.

http://rationalqm.us/dgdemux/binaries/D ... review.exe

It's pretty slick, don't you think, Brit?

[Britney]

Slicker than owl poop, as we say down South. Rocky, you are a sweetie pie, and a fast coder. Thanks so much!

[Guest 2]

Do you plan to support DVD structure too?

I have a DVD with multiple episodes, made of a multiple VOBs but seen as a long video:

CHAPTER00=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER00NAME=First episode
CHAPTER01=00:04:53.280
CHAPTER01NAME=
CHAPTER02=00:30:26.760
CHAPTER02NAME=
CHAPTER03=00:33:50.600
CHAPTER03NAME=
CHAPTER04=00:45:02.440
CHAPTER04NAME=
CHAPTER05=00:47:59.240
CHAPTER05NAME=
CHAPTER06=00:55:30.600
CHAPTER06NAME=Second episode
CHAPTER07=00:57:47.880
CHAPTER07NAME=
CHAPTER08=01:00:42.080
CHAPTER08NAME=
CHAPTER09=01:04:39.200
CHAPTER09NAME=
CHAPTER10=01:14:14.840
CHAPTER10NAME=
CHAPTER11=01:19:07.080
CHAPTER11NAME=
CHAPTER12=01:29:50.320
CHAPTER12NAME=
CHAPTER13=01:36:22.920
CHAPTER13NAME=
CHAPTER14=01:49:21.800
CHAPTER14NAME=Third episode
CHAPTER15=01:54:19.760
CHAPTER15NAME=
CHAPTER16=02:02:31.680
CHAPTER16NAME=
CHAPTER17=02:23:46.720
CHAPTER17NAME=
CHAPTER18=02:35:20.920
CHAPTER18NAME=

How can I split it according to episode subdivision?

[Rocky]

Sorry, there are no plans to support DVD.

Handbrake? PGCDemux?

[Rocky]

Oy, got a scare today. Fired up my DGDemux project and Visual Studio failed to load it, saying it is "incompatible". Tried right click and 'Reload project". Now it said application not found. Crikey. Google revealed like 50 different possible causes. Gonna be a shitty Saturday, but got lucky. Was looking at the installed extensions and saw one called "Get Xamarin" (not the actual Xamarin just some shill extension). Looked up Xamarin and it is something useless for me. So I deleted the extension and restarted VS. The project loaded. So MS sneaked this little thing into the install. I never asked for it. And it broke everything! All's well that ends well, I suppose.

Apparently, Xamarin sucks anyway:

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/1 ... grade-code
https://medium.com/@kibotu/everything-t ... 399075e50a
https://medium.com/@vladfaust/xamarin-s ... 132fb99c24

I rescued all the DG products because I got lucky. Let that sink in, guys.

[Guest]

And that is why I don't allow Windows to update automatically, breaks too many things on occasion

[Rocky]

One can pause Win 10 updates for only 7 days. So not quite the same.

[Guest]

Actually, one can stop them for as long as desired, which I do.
Tired of chasing down which fix/update broke something on my system