spumux & dvdauthor. No errors, but no subs either

[bepaald]

Hi!

I'm trying to make a DVD with subtitles using spumux and dvdauthor. It is just a small test clip (30 seconds) with 4 subtitles to speed things up while I'm learning. The DVD does not have to have any menus or anything. I muxed the subtitles in the mpeg using spumux with the following xml file:

<subpictures> 
      <stream> 
        <textsub filename="mummy1.srt" characterset="UTF-8" 
             fontsize="24.0" font="devedesans.ttf" horizontal-alignment="center" 
             vertical-alignment="bottom" left-margin="60" right-margin="60" 
             top-margin="20" bottom-margin="30" subtitle-fps="25" 
             movie-fps="25" movie-width="720" movie-height="576"
	     force="yes"/> 
      </stream> 
</subpictures>

and then ran the spumux command. That went like this:

[~/DVDTEST] $ spumux -s0 mummy1.xml < mummy1.mpg > mummy1_SUBBED.mpg
DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8
INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
INFO: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer
INFO: Opened iconv descriptor. *UTF-8* *UTF-8*
INFO: Read 4 subtitles
INFO: Adjusted 2 subtitle(s).
INFO: Unicode font: 2802 glyphs.
INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.
INFO: 4 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.16

Statistics:
- Processed 4 subtitles.
- The longest display line had 45 characters.
- The maximum number of displayed lines was 2.
- The normal display height of the font devedesans.ttf was 26.
- The bottom display height of the font devedesans.ttf was 48.
- The biggest subtitle box had 2150 bytes.
[~/DVDTEST] $

Now, when I spuunmux the resulting file (mummy1_SUBBED.mpg), I get the subtitles in png format, so I know they're in there. But after using dvdauthor to create the dvd, when I play it, no subtitle options are available in either mplayer or vlc (both would usually handle subs fine).

The dvdauthor commands I tried went like this:

[~/DVDTEST] $ dvdauthor -t mummy1_SUBBED.mpg -o TEST
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 02

STAT: Processing mummy1_SUBBED.mpg...
STAT: VOBU 64 at 19MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Video pts = 0.160 .. 32.120
INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.160 .. 31.968
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 3.960 .. 18.961
STAT: VOBU 68 at 20MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: pal
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x576
INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/6ch, 48khz drc

STAT: fixed 68 VOBUS
[~/DVDTEST] $ dvdauthor -T -o TEST
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning TEST/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning TEST/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO
[~/DVDTEST] $

but I also tried it with -s "en" added to the first command. Also I tried with a simple xml file:

<dvdauthor dest="TEST">
   <vmgm />
   <titleset>
     <titles>
       <video format="pal" aspect="4:3"/>
       <subpicture lang="en" />
       <pgc>
         <vob file="mummy1_SUBBED.mpg"/>
       </pgc>
     </titles>
   </titleset>
 </dvdauthor>

All produce the same result. No subtitles. What am I doing wrong?

thanks,
bepaald

[disturbed1]

Why is dvdauthor creating 2 VTS's if there is only one title?
Make sure your directory is empty, running dvdauthor with the -t option just adds another title to the next available VTS. If there is already a dvd structure in the output directory, dvdauthor adds to it.

Run mplayer from the command line with mplayer -dvd-device /path/VIDEO_TS dvd://1
Watch the output on the command line, it gives good info. Could try lsdvd -s /path/to/dvd/folders

Since spumux and spuunmux completed without error, it sounds like perhaps an authoring issue, or player issue. The xml and output of dvdauthor looks correct other than INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS STAT: Picking VTS 02

[bepaald]

First of all thanks for replying!

The VTS 02 was my fault I'm afraid. To get the output to copy in my first post I ran the commands again without first deleting the TEST directory. But the results are the same. I'd post the output again, but it's nearly identical (it says 'STAT: Picking VTS 01' now).

mplayer's output:

[~/DVDTEST] $ mplayer -dvd-device TEST/VIDEO_TS/ dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing dvd://1.
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
number of audio channels on disk: 0.
number of subtitles on disk: 0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12
A:  11.0 V:  11.0 A-V: -0.006 ct:  0.094 275/275  7%  0%  1.1% 1 0
Exiting... (Quit)
[~/DVDTEST] $

The important part of that output is probably the 'number of subtitles on disk: 0' line. However lsdvd (I didn't know about that program, thanks), gives:

[~/DVDTEST] $ lsdvd TEST/
Couldn't read enough bytes for title.
Disc Title: unknown
Title: 01, Length: 00:00:31.180 Chapters: 01, Cells: 01, Audio streams: 01, Subpictures: 01

Longest track: 01

[~/DVDTEST] $

Not sure if the first line of output is anything to worry about, but it does say there are subtitles. Any more ideas, or should I maybe just burn it and see if it works on a standalone player?

bepaald

*EDIT*
I just mkisofs'd the output directory, mounted the iso and then I could select the subtitles in videolan. Not in mplayer though, and in videolan the subs weren't forced like I'd wanted.

[disturbed1]

I figured it was a player issue. Mplayer can be picky with many things that aren't simple *.avi, *.mpg.... The bug list is long on it, but what it does do, it does well.

You can put this in $HOME/.gnome2/nautalis-scripts Any folder you right click on and choose to do so, will play as a dvd. Beats mkisofs, mount ...

#!/bin/sh
#vlc.dvd play

vlc dvd://$1

Don't forget to chmod +x I actually have that script in /usr/bin and associated with *.img files, and an open with option on folders.

Read this for forced subs.
http://www.floatinginspace.za.org/spumux/subtitles.html

[bepaald]

Hi!

I have no more problems now, I added several more subs and made a nice menu to be able to choose between them. Everything is working great, I just wanted to say thanks for the help.

So thanks!

bepaald

[disturbed1]

Hi!

I have no more problems now, I added several more subs and made a nice menu to be able to choose between them. Everything is working great, I just wanted to say thanks for the help.

So thanks!

bepaald

Ummmmmmmm.... you're welcome

You did all the work. I just posted lsdvd