Hello! I'm on a mac and i have a couple of questions.
first of all, i want to stich an avi and a subtitle file (.sub, .srt, whatever) to it so that i can format it for dvd. hopefully, without ruiening the image quality.
secondly, i would like to know the process on converting an mkv or ogg file wwith subtitles to a dvd format where you can see the subtitle or select them from a menu (i dont care which as long as i can read them). or even, how i can convert it to an avi
lastly, i have more of a "why?' question. i had an avi that was widescreen but when i burned it to dvd and played it on my tv, it cropped it badly not only horizontally, but vertically aswell! can anyone enlighten me on why this happened? and is there a way to fix it? thanks
again, this is for a mac
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If it's for a Mac, this would be better in our Mac forums. Moving you.
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1. Submerge is $9 shareware that allows adding subtitles.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32381
2. sorry, I don't know
3.The badly cropped playback may just be your dvd player not recognizing the aspect ratio. Did you go into the setup menu and see what choices you have? -
FfmpegX will allow you to create DVDs with selectable or burned subtitles. See http://ffmpegx.com/tools.html for an overview.
Any time you transcode into DVD from something else, you will lose something. How much degradation you suffer depends on too many factors to list exhaustively, but resolution, datarate, etc. all make a difference. -
Originally Posted by dnix71
Originally Posted by tomlee59
and when i try to load an avi and a sub file, it wont let me.
im a little lost.
Originally Posted by tomlee59
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dnix71 was referring to your DVD player, not the program that created the file you're playing. If you're viewing the file on your computer and the aspect ratio is still wrong, then that's a different thing.
As far as producing an mkv with selectable subtitles, I don't know. Selectable DVD subtitles, yes.
There was a discussion a few months ago about mkv and subtitles. It referred to a new tool that may or not help you. See https://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/mkv-subtitles-t323355.html
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i tried it on 2 dvd players and it plays the same
even after reading that forum topic, i am so lost! -
for your Question #2,
All you need to do is download Merkonk's
excellent MoKgVm2DVD program,
and drag and drop the .mkv file you have
into it. Then Process it as an XVID .avi,
(I reccomend 1 pass for anime, 2 pass for movies)
with .mp3 audio, and embed the subtitles.
Click OK to process and let it do it's thing.
It will make an XVID .avi file that plays with embedded
subs very well."Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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cool! thanks terry, i'll try that.
now for FfmpegX, i figured out howw to embed it in the video but when i play it it doesnt show the sutitles. so im guessing it automatically made them selectable but then i play them in vlc, i cant select them. so will it work on the dvd? and is there a certain way to burn it so they will work?
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you outputted a valid Video_TS folder from ffmpegx...
did you try to play it in Apple's DVD Player?
Does it show subtitle streams then?
Does it allow you to select them then?
what was your output from ffmpegx?"Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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oh first i did avi and then i tried a .ts file. what option do i have to use for a video ts folder?
also is there a way to put multiple episodes in the same video ts folder?
btw, thanks for the help with the mkv, it worked beautifully! -
Numerous ways to put multiple episodes into a valid Video_Ts folder for burning to DVD. Toast is the easiest way to do this.
Author as DVD next time in ffmpegx, this will build you a valid Video_TS folder.
Glad it worked. Youcan do all your episodes this way through
MoKgVm2DVD, then drag and drop into Toast's Video Tab,
and burn a DVD watchable on a DVD Player."Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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i can put multiple episodes in toast fine....i know how to do that ok....but if i autor an avi as a video ts, i can only put one of those onto a dvd....what if i wanted to but multiple episodes onto a dvd? maybe it will help if i me more specific.....
i have a series that is 24 episodes long. i can usually fit 6 episodes onto a dvd with normal avi's using toast. but thses avi's have the subtitles separated. so i want to embed the subs on while still being able to put 6 eps on 1 disk. can i do that? -
(just real quick while it's on my mind: VLC 0.86c got released
today which which fixes an issue related to reading subtitles
in .avi files)
Now to answer your question, YES....here's two ways I would do
what you want to accomplish:
Not so Cheap:
1. Leave the .avis as they are, leave the subtitles seperate.
2. Make sure the subtitles are DVD Studio Pro compatible
STL files, by bouncing them through either Subtitler or
TitleLab.
3. Import the .avis into DVD Studio Pro 3.02 or later
Place each .avi file on a video track, one per track.
(6 episodes means 1 track contains an epsiode = 6 tracks)
4. import the subtitles in to the matching track
5. create a menu for navigation, build the DVD as a DVD-9.
( allowing for higher quality encode on build)
6. Shrink with DVD build with DVD2OneX.
7. burn with Toast.
Cheap:
1. Embed the .srt files using Seriban's tips with MPeg2Works:
Seriban's tip
2. once the .avi files have the embedded sub, test playing them
using VLC or QT Pro.
3. Once satisfied, then burn the .avis to disc using Toast."Everyone has to learn, so that they can one day teach."
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Originally Posted by terryj
.avi.ff.ac3
.avi.ff.m2v
.avi.ff.mpg
.avi.ff.mpg.s.mpg
.avi.ff.mpg.xml
.....as opposed to a ts folder even though i have it checked in the options -
If you've checked "keep elementary streams" in the options, then you will get the pieces leading up to the final result. The .ac3 is the audio stream, .m2v is the mpeg-2 video stream, and .mpg is the muxed combination of those two. It should have continued on and given you a video_ts folder, but perhaps the process terminated in some sort of error. Check the Progress logfile (click on the blue "i" in the Progress window) to see if there's a clue as to what went wrong.
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There is one more way to do it...You can add subtitles as valid MPEG2 subtitle track without stichin it to avi: Adding subtitles on MPEG2 movie with MPEG2 Works 4
You can encode your .avi's with Toast, ffmpegX or any other MPEG2 encoder, and also with my app: DivX, XviD, AVI > DVD with MPEG2 Works 4 -
Originally Posted by Fakuto
Code:mpg.ff.mpg.xml:3: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';' <textsub filename="/video projects/Lesya&Edwin.srt" characterset="UTF-16" fontsi ^ ERR: Error in parsing XML
I'm trying to make a DVD from a .dv and .srt, here's the whole story: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1773796
The last option offered here seems to work on PPC, not on Intel? -
If you don't mind using a PC program on your Mac (I use PC programs with a little program called Crossover which lets me run some PC programs without the need of installing a full PC OS) there's AVIAddXSubs. This program is free and will take your avi & srt and convert it to a DIVX in about 2 minutes. I tried all the mac programs to make a movie I can watch with subs and by far that is the quickest way. I have a dual processor intel iMac and that's how long it takes me with that program.
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