Merging the add-ons

[Mutant_Fruit]

Considaring there are so many add-ons for DVD-RB. Is there any chance that they could all be merged into one tool? IF they could be made into "modules" and then activated and accessed through on GUI that'd be great. It'd mean that updating would still be easy, and we could all benefit from being able to use them all from the same GUI.

[zamarky1]

Hiya

Great idea fruity i also think this would be excellant.


Regards

Mark

[Joergen]

Merging them into the main dvd-rb is not going to happen since it would complicate dvd-rb out of proportion.

But what I'd like to see is RBFarm, RBOpt, RBKeeper, ECL Tweaker, ECL Optimizer and such tools made stickies or that one stickie (titled Additional Tweaking Tools) would point to the threads so they dont get buried.

[wmansir]

I don't see a real need for this, and I know personally I would much rather see jdobbs working on angles or menu compression instead of trying to get DVD-RB to work with a set of unique and constantly changing addons.

[wmansir]

Originally posted by Joergen
Merging them into the main dvd-rb is not going to happen since it would complicate dvd-rb out of proportion.

But what I'd like to see is RBFarm, RBOpt, RBKeeper, ECL Tweaker, ECL Optimizer and such tools made stickies or that one stickie (titled Additional Tweaking Tools) would point to the threads so they dont get buried.
Agree to the first part. And check the Overview stickie for the second.

[Joergen]

Good job :o
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[Mutant_Fruit]

What i actually meant was that all the mods, and DVD-RB could be controlled from one GUI. Not necessaryily combined into one EXE file. My idea was just to have the different mods all operating from one GUI.

Basically the GUI would have a main interface, where it would have the prepare/encode/rebuild buttons, and then seperate tabs for each of the mods to set the various parameters or tweak the required settings.

I wouldn't think it would be too difficult for someone to whip up something like that. But since i can't program, i might be wrong. At the moment all it would acomplish would be to stop people having to open several EXE's to encode one dvd.

E.g. open DVD-RB.exe to prepare, then close it. Then open the ECL tweaker.exe and do some tweaking there, then close that. And then open the exe for RB-Opt to change a few settings there, and then closing that and opening RB-Farm.

If all this could be done from one GUI it would be neater, and easier to do.

The programs themselves would still be seperate exe's etc, but they could all be controlled from that one gui.

[quantum]

I wouldn't think it would be too difficult for someone to whip up something like that. But since i can't program, i might be wrong.
Who made this rule: Anything I don't understand how to do must be easy to do.

The fact is your idea would require a very large effort between several disconnected, unpaid, and possibly, (in my case) uninterested people. Bottom line is forget it.

[Mutant_Fruit]

All it is is a GUI that can control the EXE's. I did a bit of programming a few years ago, but only basic GUI type stuff. Nothing useful.

Fine, you think its not possible, then it isn't. It was just an idea i had. It was Gordian knot that actually made me think of it. All gordian knot is is a GUI that calls in a few other programs.

Hell, even a Gui with 5 buttons on it, One for each mod would be handy. Click on the button and it opens the required mod. But, if no-ones interested, thats grand. I'll just leave it and try and think of better things people might be able to do.

Keep up the good work.

[wmansir]

You could create an explorer.exe shortcut like this (in xp):

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe "C:\Program Files\DVD-Rebuilder\Tools"

to a folder with shortcuts to the various programs.

Or make a folder in the quickstart menu and put the shortcuts there.