Xvid to DVD - No Audio, No Subtitles, No Peview

[hippowong]

So I've been trying EVERYTHING to get my Xvid movie to DVD. I can get the picture fine. But I have audio and subtitle problems.

The most horrible retarded thing about ffmpegx is that there are serious lack of help files or anything written about problems using it. I've got a lot of different programs FCP, DVDSP but none of these seem to be able to read any of the files that shoot out of ffmpegx. So every which way I do it, Ive been left empty handed.

Firstly with the audio. There is just no audio. No audio on the ac3 that gets converted with the mpegenc or whatever. I can rip the audio to aiff using quicktime but that is no help because the M2V file that also gets converted for some reason isn't being read by DVDSP. So I can't even slap the audio on this way.

Now the subtitle problem. There is no subtitle in the DVD thats the main problem. Ive tried previewing the movie with the inserted SRT subtitles using ffmpegx but it says there is an error "No Video" in Line 3 or something. I found nothing online about this problem. It obviously doesn't burn onto the image and there is no way for me to even see if it is before I encode. If I have to screw using ffmpegx to add subtitles thats fine, I've been trying to import subtitles, txt files, into DVDSP and I can't even do that.

So this is what I need to know. How the hell do i get the xvid (w/ audio) to encode into DVD and how the hell do I add subtitles.

IM SO GOD DAMN PISSED AT THIS CRAP. I know its free software, BUT GEES ITS BEEN AN ABSOLUTE HORRID EXPERIENCE!!

[Case]

Whoa. This reminded me of a short editorial I was reading recently...

[mwest]

hippo,

I considered trying to help, but I think you need to calm down a bit. I can get both DiVX to DVD to work and subtitles working just fine, and it wasn't that hard...

Please remember, this is still in BETA and the author is putting as much time in as possible. Good things happen with cooperative work of lots of people... A new "commercial" version will be released, so you may want to wait for that if you expect full support.

Matthew

PS - post what you have tried with what settings, and I can try and steer you in the right direction.