TitleWriter 4.72 - *** Update 31 July 2008, ***

[achesterman]

Thanks for the quick response.

Ok so I use decrypter to rip to harddrive then use shrink to cut out extras then use TW to add text. I will give it a try tonight.

[blutach]

@achesterman

Please see rule 19 - we can not discuss decrypting on this forum. Thanks for your co-operation.

Regards

[FallenAngel]

Uploaded Titlewriter Ver 4.64

http://www.dvdshrink.info/titlewriter

[Hopeful]

Re: "Thread slow or paused"

Hello,

I am trying to get TitleWriter to work under Win98SE on a PIII, 500MHz machine and am getting the "Thread slow or paused". I have been successful using the program under XP but don't have that computer here with me because I live in one city and work in another and am trying to get my older computer, that I use during the week while at work, to run Titlewriter successfully. This is why the hardware/OS is older -- don't want to spend money for a new computer at this point and also don't want to buy another copy of XP to put on this older, limited, hardware. I have to admit I haven't used the program that much but I have created working menus on my newer computer which does run XP and has an Athlon processor.

I don't think it's a hardware issue, but I could be wrong. But once the error crops up the program seems to go away and I have to use Taskmanager to end it.

I downloaded v4.64 hoping that would work but it won't run under 98SE because the mfc42u.dll won't run under 98SE. So I feel I am at a dead end at this point. I've spent several hours working on a compilation and then got to the point of using Titlewriter to add menus to the DVD Shrink re-authored folder and get the above error.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[FallenAngel]

A P3 at 500 probably 256 memory-- Not surprised its slow
Video creation is very cpu - memory intensive
You could try the following

Don't have anything running
I uploaded a test ver to site
Step on Titlewriter.exe with the ver TitlewriterSlow.exe (I've widened the error trap from 5 sec to 250 sec)

Of course none of this will help if your 98 ver. won't run the DvdAuthor subprograms (TW uses these to render the menu)

Its quite possible your OS just won't handle the MakeMenu function

Pls feedback if the test ver helps

[Hopeful]

A P3 at 500 probably 256 memory-- Not surprised its slow
Video creation is very cpu - memory intensive
You could try the following

Don't have anything running
I uploaded a test ver to site
Step on Titlewriter.exe with the ver TitlewriterSlow.exe (I've widened the error trap from 5 sec to 250 sec)

Of course none of this will help if your 98 ver. won't run the DvdAuthor subprograms (TW uses these to render the menu)

Its quite possible your OS just won't handle the MakeMenu function

Pls feedback if the test ver helps

Thanks, FallenAngel, for the reply.

I'll do as you suggested... if I can find where to download the file from.

Hm-m-m? Are the DvdAuthor sub-programs intalled along with TitleWriter? I know for sure I haven't installed dvdAuthor myself on this machine. I'll look in to that as well.

I am hopeful but skeptical. I went out and bought a used DVD writer and second HD for this experiment and the guy who runs the business said he was doubtful I'd get video editing to work on this level of hardware. He didn't express concerns about the OS but that may be a problem that can't be circumvented.

I don't mind "slow". But "can't" would be a real downer. Worst case, I can use the DVD burner to back up stuff on less discs. But I wouldn't have spent the money on the extra HD and writer.

I'll let you know how it goes... now to find the test version...

P.S. - Is there any simple kind of test that I can do to know for sure if it's just that the OS won't handle the MakeMenu function?

Thanks.
Hopeful

Well, I found the file and just discovered that it's v4.64. Will that executable work with an older installation? I ask because, as I mentioned in my first post, v4.64 won't run under Win98SE because of the mfc42u.dll. I get the error that it can run under Win98SE.

[Hopeful]

I was afraid the modified file might not work since it was v4.64. Sure enough it tries to load the mfc42u.dll and I get the error that it won't run under Win95 or 3.1 and requires NT.

I did install GUI for dvdAuthor (full install, which I think includes dvdAuthor).

But I'm dead in the water at this point.

I checked and the version I was running that doesn't seem to need to load mfc42u.dll is v4.52.

Thanks,
Hopeful

[FallenAngel]

Okay Hopeful

It looks like your machine has spotty Unicode support (aside from being way to old/slow)
I uploaded a file TitlewriterNoUni.zip
This ver uses mfc42.dll not mfc42U.dll
Don't worry about the version

Heres what you do
Download titlewriter4.64.exe from site -- run it (i'll assume you are installing in program files)
Download TitlewriterNoUni.zip from site -- Extract the file
And copy the extracted file to c:\\program files\\titlewriter (This will stomp on ver 4.64 with the same ver (but compiled/edited without Unicode support))

If this doesn't work I think you are f*^ked

PS's
I won't be supporting non Unicode versions down the line -- don't lose the current 4.64.exe and the titlewriternouni.zip files for your win98 machine

Also TW installs dvdauthor subprograms (look in tools folder)

And of course language codepages other than english aren't supported in the above configuration

You can use the standard (up to date) ver on newer machines

FAllenAngel

[Hopeful]

Thank you very much Fallen Angel!

It wouldn't have hurt my feelings if you had said you didn't have time to do this sort of thing. After all, apparently, no one else has needed to use the app. in this environment... and I DO realize it's a poor environment to be trying to do video work in.

I really am "hopeful" that the extended 250sec trap time and the unicode restritction removal will allow the program to do it's thing.

I will definitely report back with the results. And if, for whatever reason, it doesn't work then I'll feel I've tried my best and I'll KNOW you've tried yours.

Thanks for going "above and beyond".

[Hopeful]

Feedback on the modifed file

Well there's good news and bad news.

The good news is that the software runs fine without the Unicode restriction and it does wait 4+ minutes before reporting any error.

It gets as far as "converting page and audio to mpeg", but that is where it stays until it does give the "thread paused or slow" message.

I tried different check boxes hoping that I could find a simple enough menu structure that it might get things done before the timeout, but I couldn't find any combination that worked.

I'm going to try a couple of other avenues before giving up.

I really appreciate your effort, though.

Thank you very much.

[FallenAngel]

That means something is missing -- Thats in the Dvdauthor subprograms
Won't do a bit of good to "simplify" the menu. They are all the same as far as the rendering/authoring. Strange that subprograms of Dvdauthor aren't throwing an error

You might check if dvdstyler works -- if so there might be something to be done to TW -- Otherwise I think your are putzed

[Hopeful]

I played around with GUI for dvdAuthor last night and it goes through the whole process and creates a DVD (albeit, it apparently reencodes the VOB files). It took about 20-25 minutes for 4G total files in the project. It would be nice to not have that happen, which is why I wished I could get Titlewriter to work.

GUI for dvdAuthor might actually work OK in my hardware environment but I'm having another problem due to not knowing enough about the whole process of reauthoring... VM commands, DVD structure, etc.

When a 2 hour show gets split into two files, like VTS 01 1 and VTS 01 2, I can't figure out how to get GUI for dvdAuthor to link these back together again into 1 title. I drag VTS 01 2 into the menu box and I've tried a couple of post commands for VTS 01 1 but I can't get it to work.

Obviously, these questions probably belong in a thread where dvdAuthor is the topic, since I shouldn't expect you to answer questions not directly related to Titlewriter.

[blutach]

When a 2 hour show gets split into two files, like VTS 01 1 and VTS 01 2, I can't figure out how to get GUI for dvdAuthor to link these back together again into 1 title. I drag VTS 01 2 into the menu box and I've tried a couple of post commands for VTS 01 1 but I can't get it to work.

They don't need linking - they are correct as they are. VTS_01_2 is not a menu - it is the continuation of VTS_01_1. The menu is VTS_01_0.VOB

Regards

[FallenAngel]

Hmm -- So DvdStyler works (It uses the same DvdAuthor package I do)
thats significant.

Here are some questions Hopeful--
Whats your system screen resolution
While you are waiting for the thread slow or paused message -- Does task manager show mplex.exe, BmptoPng.exe, cmd.exe, spumux.exe or dvdauthor.exe running.
You should see them opening and closing

[Hopeful]

They don't need linking - they are correct as they are. VTS_01_2 is not a menu - it is the continuation of VTS_01_1. The menu is VTS_01_0.VOB

Regards

Oh no, I didn't think it was a menu. But there are 7 VOB files which should come out in the final DVD as 6 titles -- the first 2 VOB's are the first title, which is ~2hrs (first VOB 1hr26m and the second VOB 25m). Maybe I've done this wrong. (And as a reminder I did this using GUI for dvdAuthor.) The first time I tried this I dragged VOB 1 and VOB 3-7 into the menu window, thinking that VOB 2 would automatically be linked to VOB 1 when the DVD is being created. But when I tested the final DVD files the second VOB was not linked to the first. The first title was truncated at the 1h26m mark. So then I dragged all 7 VOB files into the menu window, hid the button for the 2nd part of title 1 (VTS 01 2). They still didn't get linked. Same result.

I AM just learning about this process, even though I have successfully done this using a couple of programs, on of which was Titlewriter on my XP machine. Unfortunately that computer stays in my home in another city and that's why I'm trying to get this to work on this extra computer I've got, running Win98SE. Long story, but I don't have time on the weekends to work on computer projects. And I can't buy another computer now, either.

At any rate, I think it probably is just my ignorance of how to do this. I played around with GUI for dvdAuthor just to see if I could get some program to create a menu and DVD using the hardware I'm stuck with for now.