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cmsoft
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 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: 9] BatchXtoDVD - v0.0.0.26 ßeta available (2 Oct 2009) |
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BatchXtoDVD is now available for download from
http://beta.cmsoft.co.uk
It works in very much the same way as ConvertXBatch, and it has been designed to look the same too for the sake of familiarity.
However, there are some differences. First of all, if you have more than one version of ConvertXtoDVD installed, BatchXtoDVD will by default select Version the newest - BUT you can choose to use an earlier version if you wish.
BatchXtoDVD will work quite happily with FileLists on Vista regardless of whether or not UAC is enabled (ConvertXBatch would not save filelists on Vista if UAC was enabled).
BatchXtoDVD uses the ConvertXtoDVD registry settings. If you choose between using V2, V3 and V4, the correct settings are loaded for that version.
I would be very grateful for any feedback, comments, suggestions, bug reports etc.,
AND if anyone would like to take on the task of writing the help file, then I would be a very happy person 
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Cougar_II
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
v0.0.0.2 ßeta
I loaded 2 saved projects
When it starts, instead of loading project 01 and converting, it opens the select a file, video window instead.
Question/Suggestion:
When using a "Single File" should it still use the default menu template selected in ConvertXtoDVD or just converted it and force it to use "No menu" ?
If I want a menu, I should prepare a projects and set all my names etc... not ?
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| cougar_ii wrote: |
When it starts, instead of loading project 01 and converting, it opens the select a file, video window instead.
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This is an error with 3.1.0.26 - it was reported as a bug and has been fixed for the next release. It's not an error with BatchXtoDVD
| cougar_ii wrote: |
Question/Suggestion:
When using a "Single File" should it still use the default menu template selected in ConvertXtoDVD or just converted it and force it to use "No menu" ?
If I want a menu, I should prepare a projects and set all my names etc... not ? |
Good point - I never use menus anyway. Would you think it would be more beneficial to just force no menus, or have an option to use no menus? |
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Cougar_II
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
| Quote: | | Good point - I never use menus anyway. Would you think it would be more beneficial to just force no menus, or have an option to use no menus? |
On a single file, maybe have a selector ?
[X] Convert Only, No Menu
[ ] Use ConvertXtoDVD Default Template
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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v0.0.0.3 ßeta now online.
New option on the settings page allows you to select either "No Menu" or "Default Template"... |
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seed.helper
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks for the update |
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Gripweed
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Location: NJ USA
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Your "Pre-Made Project" batching is not working correctly at all. If I enter projects A, B, and C and start the conversion it will do correctly project A and then it will attempt to do project A again. I then have to manually abort out of that and then it tries to do project A again. |
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Gripweed wrote: | | Your "Pre-Made Project" batching is not working correctly at all. If I enter projects A, B, and C and start the conversion it will do correctly project A and then it will attempt to do project A again. I then have to manually abort out of that and then it tries to do project A again. |
Thanks for pointing that out! This has now been rectified, and v0.0.0.4 ßeta is now available for download.
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Gripweed
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you. I'll give it a try.
In the meantime I have a request for a feature. For whatever reason VSO does not see the important of this when I write to them and I can't get anyone here to file an official feature request into the bugs database for me.
By default, CXD will take the name of the first titleset and save the resulting DVD to that subdirectory. In other words, if you have a conversion which uses the files A.avi, B.avi, and C.avi, the resulting AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS subdirectories will be located at C:\Convertx2DVD\A or whatever the default location is set as. The point being that "A" becomes the subdirectory name. Nevermind that they have a setting called "DVD Name" which they don't use other than becoming the default Project name if you save the project. So, if you happen to be doing episodic DVDs with the first titleset on each disk being called "Episode 1", you are screwed. It wants to overwrite the contents of the C:\Convertx2DVD\Episode 1 subdirectory and throws up an error popup. If you are doing a batch conversion with your program or other batch methods, the batch stops until it gets a reply. All this could be avoided if only CXD would use the "DVD Name" as entered by the user or if one was not entered by them, to use a timestamp as a unique subdirectory name.
Is there any way that your program can override the stupid way that CXD now makes up its subdirectory names? I'd even be happy if after converting the first project to C:\Convertx2DVD\Episode 1 the subdirectory was simply renamed to C:\Convertx2DVD\Project 1\Episode 1 (or some such thing) before starting the conversion on the second project in the batch. Anything that would assure a unique subdirectory to be formed will do but I'm really partial to the timestamp idea.
Possible? |
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Gripweed wrote: | In the meantime I have a request for a feature. For whatever reason VSO does not see the important of this when I write to them and I can't get anyone here to file an official feature request into the bugs database for me.
By default, CXD will take the name of the first titleset and save the resulting DVD to that subdirectory. In other words, if you have a conversion which uses the files A.avi, B.avi, and C.avi, the resulting AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS subdirectories will be located at C:\Convertx2DVD\A or whatever the default location is set as. The point being that "A" becomes the subdirectory name. Nevermind that they have a setting called "DVD Name" which they don't use other than becoming the default Project name if you save the project. So, if you happen to be doing episodic DVDs with the first titleset on each disk being called "Episode 1", you are screwed. It wants to overwrite the contents of the C:\Convertx2DVD\Episode 1 subdirectory and throws up an error popup. If you are doing a batch conversion with your program or other batch methods, the batch stops until it gets a reply. All this could be avoided if only CXD would use the "DVD Name" as entered by the user or if one was not entered by them, to use a timestamp as a unique subdirectory name.
Is there any way that your program can override the stupid way that CXD now makes up its subdirectory names? I'd even be happy if after converting the first project to C:\Convertx2DVD\Episode 1 the subdirectory was simply renamed to C:\Convertx2DVD\Project 1\Episode 1 (or some such thing) before starting the conversion on the second project in the batch. Anything that would assure a unique subdirectory to be formed will do but I'm really partial to the timestamp idea.
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v0.0.0.5 ßeta now available for download.
There is a new option on the Settings page "Prefix Output Folder With Timestamp".
If you try and batch convert more than one file with the same name (i.e. two movies of title "Movie.avi" - then by default, if you have overwrite enabled, ConvertXtoDVD will overwrite the first conversion with the second, and if you don't have overwrite enabled, ConvertX sits and waits for user input - thus halting the batch.
This new option will convert the movie, and once successfully converted, will prefix the output folder name with the date and time in the format "yyyymmdd-hhmmss <original folder name>", meaning that you can have as many videos of the name "Movie.avi" in the batch list, and each on will end up in it's own directory. Unfortunately, I can't get the folder to be created with the timestamp before conversion takes place - however, it should mean that you can safely batch convert with overwrite enabled.
Oh and one last point on this, it's not the "Working Folder" name that gets prefixed, it's the subfolder within, created by ConvertX during conversion that gets prefixed. |
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Gripweed
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| You, sir, are the greatest! Thank you so much!!! |
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| Gripweed wrote: | | You, sir, are the greatest! Thank you so much!!! |
Thank you for the comment... Have you tried it yet? |
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seed.helper
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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i will try it this night my friend
hope it works all ok  |
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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v0.0.0.6 ßeta now available for download
When you double click on a filelist entry in the main batch window, a new window will open allowing you to modify the contents of the filelist.
[Plus a couple of minor bugfixes.] |
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seed.helper
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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i detected this problem in 0.0.0.5 and the latest 0.0.0.6
buttons save queue and load queue doesn't do anything
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also i want to convert 3 projects by order
when im starting the batch conversion
i would like to say that with convertxbatch 1.5 starts ok the conversion and don't ask anything
good work and continue this project
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| seed.helper wrote: | i detected this problem in 0.0.0.5 and the latest 0.0.0.6
buttons save queue and load queue doesn't do anything
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This isn't a bug - as stated in the first post of this thread, these options are not yet enabled even though they are shown.
| seed.helper wrote: | also i want to convert 3 projects by order
when im starting the batch conversion |
Thanks for the video showing what you meant. This was a bug that only affected some pre-made project files, and has been fixed in v0.0.0.8
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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v0.0.0.8 ßeta now available for download
Now checks pre-made project files to ensure that the associated video files actually exist. If not, the project won't get added to the queue, and the log will show the names of the missing video files.
Fixed a bug in that some pre-made project files weren't being passed correctly to ConvertXtoDVD. |
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: |
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v0.0.0.10 ßeta now available for download
New features:
If you are using ConvertXtoDVD 3.0.0.14 or newer, you can select the DVD Writer to burn to.
When adding a pre-made project, BatchXtoDVD will check to ensure that the version of ConvertXtoDVD being used is the same or newer than the minimum version required for the project file. |
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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v0.0.0.11 ßeta now available for download
Bugfix: Problem loading pre-made projects when the <file_path> contained an apostrophe. |
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cmsoft
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:03 am Post subject: |
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v0.0.0.12 ßeta now available for download
- 0000002: [Feature Request] Remember last folder when loading pre-made projects (cmsoft) - resolved.
BatchXtoDVD will now remember TWO folders. The last folder used when adding a pre-made project, and the last folder used when adding movie file(s). |
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