Problem with NuMenu4u & Scenarist

[SuprSonik]

Hi, I'm trying to use shrink the menu for Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition (for both discs) and I'm running into a problem when it comes to the part where Scenarist is needed.

Everything else goes perfectly fine, and Scenarist opens up normally, but when the Automation Log gets to the "Create New Scenario From Script Window Found" step, Scenarist "closes" and nothing else happens (I've left it running all night and nothing changes.)

While the Scenarist window closes, the process is actually still active and is using all of my CPU's power. Does anyone know why this is happening? NuMenu4u seems like an excellent program, I just wish I could get it to work right :(

Thanks.

Edit: Oh, I should add that I'm using Scenarist 2.7.

[influenza]

Is this happening only with numenu or just with all scripts? i had exactly the same problem after installing some nvidia nforce2 drivers. Rolling back the driver fixed the problem.

[Zeul]

If you can't get scenarist to work properly then:
set the compile option (in scenarist options) to no import
if using dif4u turn on this setting (in settings)
set copy option to 1 - all remaining menu files

now run numenu4u. This will skip the scenarist part and finish, inc, copying all remaining files into the correct folder.
Manually open up scenarist & import the ***.scp file in the working folder.
Compile as normal
Run the Update_Menu_Ifo.bat file in the working dir.
VERY IMPORTANT -do not remove the disc from the drive OR unmount the iso. This is because the original IFO is needed, and its path is scripted into the .bat file. This will then update the ifo & move the new files into the VIDEO_TS folder.


Looks like more work is needed on the automation routines :(

[influenza]

In my case it was absolutely no automation issue. Just the drivers messing things up.

And I do think the automation part could use some finetuning ;). The process is not stopped after scenarist has finished, taking up 100% CPU for example. And in my case it's somehow never able to find the script and do the naming of the new one on it's own.

[SuprSonik]

Influenza, for some reason I hadn't thought of checking to see whether it was being caused by NuMenu4u or was just a problem with Scenarist. I tried importing the SCP script and the same thing happens, so I guess I have an entirely different problem :(

[SuprSonik]

New problem...I got around the old one by booting into Safe Mode and manually importing the script into Scenarist. Like influenza said, it must be a driver issue.

Anyway, so Scenarist compiles the files nicely and I'm left with the new .bup/.ifo/.vobs in my working folder. I'm trying to run the Update_Menu_Ifo.bat, but when I do I can an error message claiming that MenuIfoUpdate.exe is not a valid Win32 application :mad:

Can I do this manually by simply copying the files into the main movie folder? I tried this, but it didn't seem to work right...when I started watching the movie, the menu was all screwy. Any ideas? :(

Edit: Reinstalling fixed that. But now I'm getting a Run-time error '53': File not Found error when I run Update_Menu_Ifo.bat. I have such bad luck :(

[D3s7]

make sure your original ifo is still mounted on whatever drive letter you ripped it with...

Not sure if that's still needed but at one time itwas

[Zeul]

open the bat file in a text editor and confirm the path locations are still valid

[SuprSonik]

This is what I'm doing:

I rip the DVD to my hard drive with DVD Decrypter using "File" mode. I run NuMenu4u and point to the VIDEO_TS folder that I decrypted. I use the default working directory that it picks.

I run it without Scenarist, boot into safe mode and import the script, compile it. Boot back into Windows normally.

I then go into the working directory and run the .bat file. All the locations are still valid. That's when I get the error.

The original IFO is still in the source directory. All the paths are still valid. I don't see what is wrong with it :confused:

Am I doing something wrong?

[influenza]

Maybe the update ifo bat cannot be run in safemode

[jel]

maybe flu, but
"I run it without Scenarist, boot into safe mode and import the script, compile it. Boot back into Windows normally."
seems to suggest otherwise.
@ SuprSonik : maybe you should first work on sorting out your issues with scenarist before we tackle anything else - i have no idea if something you are doing in this process is messing things up but it could be ....
maybe this will help:Error message
Scenarist falls without error message, if one script on "new one from". clicks.

Error cause
Scenarist does not get along with the new Nvidia IDE drivers under WinXP (perhaps also different operating systems???).

Solution
One must change the IDE driver manually.
One goes into the equipment manager. (start - > attitudes - > system control - > system - > hardware - > equipment managers). There one deinstalliert under IDE ATA/ATAPI CONTROLLER the Nvidia driver. To install requested with the next start one a new driver. In the Wizard one selects the second option software of a list... . Also in the next dialogue one selects the second option does not select... . Now one selects the standard Zweikanal PCI IDE CONTROLLER. taken from the
scenarist error faq in the main guides/faq sticky

edit: actually i dont know if that translated text will help :p

[influenza]

Something is seriously wrong with your windows environment if you ask me. If possible I would either try a fresh install or try things on an other PC.

[SuprSonik]

You know, I bet that is the problem, jel. I have an nForce4 motherboard and I installed nVidia's IDE controller along with the rest of the drivers. I'm going to uninstall it now and revert back to the Windows default...we'll see if that does the trick.

Thankfully I know how to do that already, so reading the "Error cause" line was enough for me...trying to read the rest is giving me a headache :p

[SuprSonik]

Bingo! That did it! Thank you, Jel! :D

Now I'm going to try and do the process as it's supposed to be done, with NuMenu4U importing it directly into Scenarist. I'll let you guys know what happens...

Edit: Well, everything seems to be working fine now...sorry to trouble you all with something that turned out to be so simple, but thank you very much for the help, nonetheless!

[influenza]

You know, I bet that is the problem, jel. I have an nForce4 motherboard and I installed nVidia's IDE controller along with the rest of the drivers.

ehm yes that was what I also tried to tell you ;) Very annoying that scenarist won't work with those nforce drivers.

Hopefully you'll get it to work now.

[SuprSonik]

Sorry, influenza, you were right too. ;) But the thing is I can't roll back to older drivers, because the nForce4 motherboards use different drivers than the other nForce boards (due to a built-in hardware firewall.) I pretty much just gave up hope on actually getting Scenarist to work without booting into safe mode. But that bit Jel posted about it being specifically the IDE drivers really helped me out, because that was something I could do away with.

But still, thanks everyone for helping :)