Fedora11: strange DVDStyler v1.7.3beta3 crash

[Otto J. Makela]

I recently upgraded my system from Fedora10 to Fedora11, and along with the
operating system upgrade got the DVDStyler v1.7.3 beta 3 instead of the
earlier version I had been using. With this version, there is a strange
problem with mastering: dvdstyler gets stuck when generating the menu.
I'm including the generated dvd.xml with this message.

I've tried running dvdstyler with strace, but of course since it's just the
front-end not much useful information is revealed. Can someone suggest ways to
debug this further, is this some known problem?

% dvdstyler -e -s dvd.xml
DVDStyler v1.7.3 beta 3
Linux 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64 x86_64
FFmpeg: libavformat 52.31.0, libavcodec 52.20.0, libavutil 49.15.0
Prepare
Cleaning temporary directory
Search for transcoded files in cache
Generating menus
Generating menu 1 of 1
Prepare
(just sits there, no disk activity or anything...)
^C

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<dvdstyler format="4" aspectRatio="1" videoFormat="2" capacity="0" jumppad="1" name="Alphaville-Colossus" videoBitrate="-1" audioFormat="2" emptyMenu="1">
  <vmgm>
    <menus>
      <pgc>
        <vob pause="inf">
          <menu aspectRatio="1" videoFormat="PAL">
            <svg width="720" height="576">
              <rect width="720" style="fill:#000000;" id="background" height="576"/>
              <defs id="defs">
                <svg id="s_button01">
                  <image xlink:href="/home/otto/videos/burn/Alphaville-Colossus/AlphavillePoster.jpg" y="10%" style="opacity:1;" height="80%" x="10%" width="80%" id="image"/>
                  <rect y="10%" style="fill:none;stroke:#ffffff;stroke-width:5;" height="80%" x="10%" width="80%" rx="5" ry="5" id="rect"/>
                </svg>
                <svg id="s_button02">
                  <image xlink:href="/home/otto/videos/burn/Alphaville-Colossus/Colossus_the_forbin_project_ver2.jpg" y="10%" style="opacity:1;" height="80%" x="10%" width="80%" id="image"/>
                  <rect y="10%" style="fill:none;stroke:#ffffff;stroke-width:5;" height="80%" x="10%" width="80%" rx="5" ry="5" id="rect"/>
                </svg>
              </defs>
              <g id="objects"/>
              <g id="buttons">
                <use width="380" y="0" x="0" xlink:href="#s_button01" id="button01" height="576"/>
                <use width="380" y="0" x="345" xlink:href="#s_button02" id="button02" height="576"/>
              </g>
            </svg>
            <button id="button01">
              <action playAll="false" chapter="0" audio="-1" pgci="1" tsi="0" subtitle="-1"/>
              <direction right="button02" up="button02" left="button02" down="button02"/>
              <filename>frame.xml</filename>
              <parameter selected="#ff0000" name="stroke" highlighted="#0000ff" normal="#ffffff"/>
              <parameter selected="none" name="fill" highlighted="none" normal="none"/>
            </button>
            <button id="button02">
              <action playAll="false" chapter="0" audio="-1" pgci="3" tsi="0" subtitle="-1"/>
              <direction right="button01" up="button01" left="button01" down="button01"/>
              <filename>frame.xml</filename>
              <parameter selected="#ff0000" name="stroke" highlighted="#0000ff" normal="#ffffff"/>
              <parameter selected="none" name="fill" highlighted="none" normal="none"/>
            </button>
          </menu>
        </vob>
      </pgc>
    </menus>
  </vmgm>
  <titleset>
    <menus/>
    <titles>
      <pgc>
        <vob doNotTranscode="1" file="/home/otto/videos/burn/Alphaville-Colossus/Alphaville-dvd.mpg" chapters="10:00,20:00,30:00,40:00,50:00,1:00:00,1:10:00,1:20:00,1:30:00">
          <video format="1"/>
          <audio format="1"/>
        </vob>
        <post>call vmgm menu 1;</post>
      </pgc>
      <pgc>
        <vob doNotTranscode="1" file="/home/otto/videos/burn/Alphaville-Colossus/Colossus-The_Forbin_Project-dvd.mpg" chapters="10:00,20:00,30:00,40:00,50:00,1:00:00,1:10:00,1:20:00,1:30:00">
          <video format="1"/>
          <audio format="1"/>
        </vob>
        <post>call vmgm menu 1;</post>
      </pgc>
    </titles>
  </titleset>
</dvdstyler>

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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro-2]

Otto J. Makela wrote:

> ... dvdstyler gets stuck when generating the menu.

Does DVDStyler run dvdauthor to do the authoring?

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[Otto J. Makela]

On 2009-07-24 03:26, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Otto J. Makela wrote:
>
>> ... dvdstyler gets stuck when generating the menu.
>
> Does DVDStyler run dvdauthor to do the authoring?

Sorry for the late answer, I quite forgot I wrote here.

Yes, it does. It turned out that if you call dvdauthor with a xml file
specifying an incorrectly sized button image (eg. so that it would exceed
the menu it is embedded in), dvdauthor will quit with an error message but
dvdauthor won't recognize this situation.

I've notified the dvdauthor people about this situation.
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