#1 Burning Software

Hi,

I downloaded the evaluation copy and wanted to build some of the samples.

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Professional with the Vista updates on Vista Ultimate.

I tried burning the ImageBurner in the GUI\MSVC folder and got 128 warnings and 4 errors.

Shouldn't I be able to compile the C++ GUI samples with a minumum of warnings and no errors?

Here's the error message:
Error 37 error C2678: binary '==' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std::_Vector_iterator<_Ty,_Alloc>' (or there is no acceptable conversion) c:\program files\rocket division software\starburn sdk\samples\gui\msvc\shared\devicefinder.cpp 1057

Here's the error line
if(!(result == 0) || result == Speeds.end())

There is obviously an easy fix that won't break anything else, could someone pass on what they did?

Regards,

ran6110

Key thing here - we've used (and still use) VS 2003 (VC 7.0) to build the samples. VS 2005 (VC 8.0) has a little bit more strict default compiler settings. That's why you need to apply minor changes to the source when "going up" Of course we are aware of this and would modify the source (and we do and for most of the places already did this) but fully VS 2005 compatible samples would be with StarBurn closer to the 7.6.30 release (June 2007). That's it

Thanks, what changes?

Please write on my email, and I send to you corrected source code of MSVC ImageBurner sample for Visual Studio 2005.

Hi,

I found this thread to be on topic with my situation. I would like to try this SDK but found that the samples have problems. The version I downloaded is 7.2.20, is that the latest? A previous post in this thread mentions a 7.6.30 release, is that available?

I am running VS2005 in Vista. I want to add DVD video and CD audio burning to my C# .NET application and hope to find a good SDK. I require to burn to multiple drives at the same time. The GUI will be very simple but custom to support other funtions. The target platform is a top-end PC, Q6600 CPU,,,.

Can you help? All of the samples I tried had problems, here are two examples: (thanks for looking and your consideration)

DVDVideoBurnerSample gives this error at runtime when trying to "add files:
Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'btnAdd' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.

VideoBurner does not even build:
Error 17 error C2678: binary '==' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std::_Vector_iterator<_Ty,_Alloc>' (or there is no acceptable conversion) b:\vs\rocket division software\starburn sdk\samples\gui\common\cdvddevice.cpp 1478

7.2.20 is what's officially released. If you need VS2005 and C# support NOw please drop us a message to the info@rocketdivision.com and we'll issue you with the updated samples and new StarBurnX component (OCX and .NET thing we'll use to replace current OCX).

Hi,
I have a bit different question but also regarding the evaluation version, so I'll post here (hope I'm doing right).
I am also evaluating the SDK (OCX wrapper with VS2005 and C#) but found out that most of functionalities are only available in the DLL (i am unable to burn DAO discs for example)... I am using version 7.2.20. Are you planning to add missing functionalities or I'll have to use the DLL (or am I missing something )?

P.S. I sent an email to info@rocketdivision.com about a week ago but I didn't get any answer... maybe it was blocked by spamarrest. I clicked links in both emails that arrived. Could you please check for it?

Thanks,
Giulio

Curren StarBurnOCX component will be kept for compatibility reasons only. No DAO or any other addons. We'll release StarBurnX, it's successor with DAO, SAO and nearly all of the StarBurn core feature soon. You may get your RC code now. Just drop us a message to info@rocketdivision.com with valid subject. Indeed, we did not get any messages from you so probably you may try to write from the different e-mail account Thanks!

Hi,
I was instructed to email you to receive a copy of the Starburn SDK that is compatible with VS2005,.NET C#.
Please send me a copy at your earliest convenience.

I'm at the evaluation stage and have not purchased yet. Given I do not know what I'm getting into as far as complexity, can you answer a few more questions?

1) What valued added does Starburn SDK have over the Microsoft IMAPI 2 ?

2) Does you SDK use the IMAPI, or is it all custom?

3) I want to use the capability of burning and reading multiple drives at the same time. Here is an example:

- Load Master DVD video in a Drive and copy to hard-drive.
- start burning 4 DVD video copies
- Rip the audio from the data and generate wave files to make audio Cd's
- start burning 2 audio Cd's
- burn more sets as needed

The hardware platform will typically have 6-8 DVD burners, 3 Hard-drives with a Q6600 2G-4G RAM.

Do you have any sample code that can get me started on this scenario?

Thanks,
Bob

Did you get the stuff so far?

1) IMAPI... There's no support for HD DVD at this moment (and no plans to have it in ~1.5 years), Blu-Ray support is not even planned b/c MS does not bless Blu-Ray. So you'll have extremely hard times telling your customers why your app cannot take care of their high-capacity device. IMAPI has no official paid support, if you'll run into the problem there's no guarantee anybody will even try to help you. IMAPI hardware support is very questionable as they don't maintain database of the burners, they do everyhing in "generic" mode so I have no idea how they will workaround firmware bugs. IMAPI has compatiblity problems with any software using filters to access the device (Roxio, Sonic, BlindWrite, AnyDVD etc). Burning never will be reliable. Then goes other things like DVD-Video, compressed audio, verification, CD-Text and so on. Too many things to mention.

2) Of course no! It's like asking "Does your Ferrari has Ford badge on it's butt"

3) Just create multiple CdvdBurnerGrabber device objects in the different threads and do work with 'em. There's a sample called MultiBurner in the SDK doing this.

Thanks Anton,

I did NOT yet get the files, only your email.

I only need DVD-R and CD-R support. However, I am convinced that I will be able to get running a lot faster with your solution. I can see from this forum that you are providing fastanstic support. That's worth the fee.

I'll wait for the files see that the will build and work in VS2005. Are you planning to release that version soon, even as a beta?

Bob

Dima is responsible for sending you the download URL. Let me kick him

If you need only DVD-R & CD-R and need only limited features I'd give a try to IMAPI v2. You can always turn back to the commercial toolkits later.

Yes. January 2008 if nothing will break really hard.

I got the email and I am trying the samples. First of all, I am running Vista on a Q6600 quad core. Is that a problem?


The first project I built gives these errors:
Error 1 'DriveInfo' is an ambiguous reference between 'System.IO.DriveInfo' and 'RocketDivision.StarBurnX.DriveInfo' B:\VS\Rocket Division Software\StarBurnX\Samples\C#\DVDVideoBurner\frmDvdVideoBurner.cs 162 13 DvdVideoBurner


I resolved it by using 'RocketDivision.StarBurnX.DriveInfo' so now it builds. OK?

Regarding .NET, I see that the interop reference is setup for .NET 1.1. How about .NET 2? I gave it a try, seems ok. What is better? I would think .NET 2 but 1.1 was used.


ImageBuilder gives this runtime error:
Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'treeDiscContent' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.

This can be serious, do you know about this? Threading problems can work OK on a single CPU but crash on a muli-core.

It looks like your still building with vs2003?

I'll keep working and Thanks for helping.
Bob

Hello Bob

1) Configuration of your 'machine' is ok:)!!

2) Your modification is right, we will modify our examples in order to fix this problem;

3) We use the MS Visual Studio 2003 creating the NET examples, so we must use the StarBurnX interop created for NET 1.1. Be informed that we have provided also interop created for the NET 2.x. So You can change reference to the new version of StarBurnX (RocketDivision.StarBurnX.Interop2) manually.

4) Thanx you for your feedback about problems on the multi-core processors! We will test and fix it now!!

5) We will migrate our NET examples on the MS Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 in the next build!!

Many thanx,

Dmitry

"No enough free space on a disk! \n Target disc: D:\\ - 283245 free MB \n Grabbing track: N1 - 4294965366 MB"

Line 216 in the C# code.

I get that error using both C# and VB .NET versions of DataGrabber. The C++ and VB6 versions work fine.

FYI.
Bob