Avi->DVD no Video_TS folder

[gaikoku]

On an Imac Intel Core 2 Duo converting AVI to DVD MPEG2,
either mpeg2enc or ffmpeg used to be a piece of cake with FFmpegx,
always separate Audio_TS and Video_TS folders were created.
For no clear reason occasionally it didn't work, but restarting FFmpegx
or the mac would do the trick and it worked again.

Now, whatever I do the .avi.ff.mpg - .avi.ff.mpg.s.mpg - .avi.ff.mpg.xml
are written but no Audio/Video folder is created afterwards.
Tried reinstalling the programm, but still the same, what to do?

[Case]

Please post the Process Information log, accessible by clicking the blue "i" in the ffmpegX Progress window, so we know what was going on when it failed to create the VIDEO_TS folder.

[gaikoku]

Encoding started on Fri Sep 12 23:20:57 CEST 2008
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo tower tmp/wrd-ttmamasd-cd1.avi':
Duration: 01:04:01.1, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1528 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 23.98 fps(r): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x272
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 384 kb/s
Output #0, dvd, to '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo tower tmp/wrd-ttmamasd-cd1.avi.ff.mpg':
Stream #0.0, 25.00 fps(c): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-20, pass 1, 4000 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
bench: utime=1594.479s
video:1367947kB audio:105030kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 6.953380%
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo tower tmp/wrd-ttmamasd-cd1.avi':
Duration: 01:04:01.1, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1528 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 23.98 fps(r): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x272
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 384 kb/s
Output #0, dvd, to '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo tower tmp/wrd-ttmamasd-cd1.avi.ff.mpg':
Stream #0.0, 25.00 fps(c): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-20, pass 2, 4000 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
bench: utime=1603.902s
video:1368265kB audio:105030kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 6.958804%
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: 379 glyphs.
ERR: Couldn't load file /Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo tower tmp/wrd-ttmamasd-cd1.sub.

[tomlee59]

I don't know if this is the cause of your problem, but you have spaces in your pathname (Tokyo tower tmp). Some modules within ffmpegx don't like special characters -- and this includes spaces -- so it is best to avoid them.

As an experiment, make sure that the pathname is free of these characters (e.g. to Tokyo_tower_tmp), and try again. Since it is choking on loading the subs, perhaps the software module that handles subs is one of those that is sensitive to the pathname format. This assumes, of course, that you have a .subs file somewhere. If not, then that's a problem.

[Case]

INFO: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer 2.0
INFO: Read 0 subtitles
ERR: Couldn't load file /Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo tower tmp/wrd-ttmamasd-cd1.sub.

The process was halted because the subtitle file couldn't be read. ffmpegX thought it was subviewer 2.0 format, but perhaps that assumption was wrong, perhaps it is a VobSub format file? (.idx+.sub)
The creation of selectable subtitles for DVD authoring only works for text-based subtitles, not image based subtitles. Text based subtitles tend to be small (under 300 KB), image based subtitles tend to be large (more than 1 MB).
Perhaps you can try to find a matching text-based .srt file?
The only way I know to use VobSub on DVD is hardsubbing (making them permanently part of the video). It's described in one of BeardFan's posts.

[gaikoku]

tomlee59 thanks for the tip,
renaming them gave a different result,
now I was able to open the link to finder,
still no Video_ts folder, I suppose this is
due to the unread subtitles?

FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Sat Sep 13 01:26:45 CEST 2008
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo_tower_tmp/wrd_ttmamasd_cd1.avi':
Duration: 01:04:01.1, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1528 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 23.98 fps(r): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x272
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 384 kb/s
Output #0, dvd, to '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo_tower_tmp/wrd_ttmamasd_cd1.avi.ff.mpg':
Stream #0.0, 25.00 fps(c): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-20, pass 1, 4000 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
bench: utime=1650.726s
video:1367947kB audio:105030kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 6.953380%
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX universal build for ffmpegX
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.9.0
libavformat version: 50.4.0
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo_tower_tmp/wrd_ttmamasd_cd1.avi':
Duration: 01:04:01.1, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1528 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 23.98 fps(r): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x272
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 384 kb/s
Output #0, dvd, to '/Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo_tower_tmp/wrd_ttmamasd_cd1.avi.ff.mpg':
Stream #0.0, 25.00 fps(c): Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-20, pass 2, 4000 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
[mpeg2video @ 0x54340c]rc buffer underflow
bench: utime=1649.785s
video:1368265kB audio:105030kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 6.958804%
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: 379 glyphs.
ERR: Couldn't load file /Users/rob/Movies/Tokyo_tower_tmp/wrd_ttmamasd_cd1.sub.

[tomlee59]

Glad to hear that you made some progress, but to get all the way to the end will require taking care of the issue that Case identified. If you want selectable subtitles, they'll need to be in .srt format (these are available for a great many films). If all you have are .subs, then you can only "hard burn" the subtitles into the film (that is, make them a permanent part of the image). Could this be your problem?

[gaikoku]

Video_TS folder is back,
thanx for putting me on the right track,
BeardFan's hardsubbing is another matter,
haven't been able to reproduce BeardFan's post yet,
but... I will learn