DVD-Slideshow

[Chris Maness]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, usleepless at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
>> That sounds good to me.   I will still like to continue to try to get
>> the crossfades working too.  If you send yours in, and the port
>> maintaner adds the diffs, then it will be called _4 on the ports tree,
>> even though it has been "downgraded."
>>
>> p.s. Please, don't take anything I say personal.  It is not personal, I
>> am just a zealot when it comes to trying to get things to work on
>> Linux/UNIX (because I hate having to rely on windows for multimedia apps).
>>
>> The latest (1.7.5) works absolutely PERFECT (crossfades and all) on my
>> slackware install.
>
> altough i was already tired of this, you tempted my curiousity and i
> downloaded 1.7.5 of sourceforge, patched the wc --chars and ran it
> with the parameters as you specified.
>
> it created a Test.vob without crossfades. i just read the code, and i
> suspect it is still seq not doing what it is supposed to do.
>
> seq2 is not parameter compatible with seq.
>
> so, i have to finish what i started:
>
> write to /usr/bin/seq, chmod +x etc
>
> --------------------------------
> #!/bin/csh
> if ( $#argv == 2) then
> if( $1 == $2) then
>  echo $1
> else
>  seq2 -s $1 -e $2
> endif
> else
> if($2 == $3) then
>        echo $2
> else
> seq2 -s $2 -e $3
> endif
> endif
> ----------------------------
>
> i tested with a smaller script than this ( lots of errors ) but the
> slideshow finished WITH crossfades. i am now do a rerun to see if it
> still generates a decent slideshow.
>
> regards,
>
> usleep
>
>

Awesome, thanks.  I'm not much of a scripting guru.