Error: couldn't load subtitles!

[blueblitz]

Hi, I've been trying to convert an avi to a DVD so I can get the subtitles embedded before I burn it to a DVDr, but I keep getting this problem..I've followed the directions at the ffmpegx website exactly but every time I encode it never makes the VIDEO TS and AUDIO TS files...it just makes an mpg, an s.mpg, and an .xml file. I've tried with both srt and sub subtitles and on both I keep getting the same error in the log. Here's what it says last time I gave it a go:

FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
Mon Oct 15 19:46:03 MDT 2007
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
Input #0, avi, from '/Volumes/Jul 05 2006/Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975).avi':
Duration: 01:41:51.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 960 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 25.00 fps(r): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 448x336
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 32 kb/s
Output #0, dvd, to '/Users/rboling/Desktop/aa.mpg':
Stream #0.0, 25.00 fps(c): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576, q=2-20, 4000 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
bench: utime=2916.612s
video:2920864kB audio:333998kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 2.447733%
INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
INFO: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer 2.0
INFO: Opened iconv descriptor. *UTF-8* *ISO-8859-1*
INFO: Read 0 subtitles
INFO: Unicode font: 242 glyphs.
ERR: Couldn't load file /Volumes/Jul 05 2006/Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975).sub.





Any suggestions? thanks

[Case]

Two things to consider:
• The module that is handling the subtitles may trip over the spaces ( ) and special characters (comma, parentheses), in both folder names and file names. Try renaming to simpler names. Replacing special characters with underscore (_) will suffice.
• The ffmpegX supported .sub format is the text based flavor ("SubViewer"/"MicroDVD"), not the image based .sub that is the half of .idx/.sub ("VOBSub"). When in doubt, prefer the .srt file.

The good thing is, you don't have to start all over to complete this. You may use the Author tool, to load your already generated .mpg file with the subtitle file and continue from there.