Help needed for video conversion : Winavi

[leoboms]

This is the job : convert an AVI file to DVD format with subtitling. I've tried ANY2DVD and WINAVI 10.0
These are the results :
ANY2DVD : it takes too long, almost 2 hours, video quality is much degraded and no way to make subtitles appear.
WINAVE : I'd prefer to find a solution with this program, it's fast and video quality is quite good. But there seems to be some problems with audio conversion. First try : video and subtitling work fine but no audio at all. I was suggested to decompress audio so I found a tool which did the job. The result was a new larger AVI file which seems to have an audio stream (PCM_S16LE).
Second try : now I do have sound but the subtitles do not appear.
It is just some home video fun and should not be so annoying to get this job well done. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[guns1inger]

Start with mediainfo tree view so we know what your source is.

Personally, I have never found WinAVI to be the answer to anything - except maybe if you really long for a migraine and just can't get one on your own.

ConvertXtoDVD is fast, cheap and reasonable if not great.

AVStoDVD is high quality, and consequently slower, but does a far better job than WinAVI could every hope to achieve.

[leoboms]

Here's the info you requested for the source file :
General
Complete name : C:\CINE\Ivanovo Detstvo_pcm.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 1.48 GiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate : 2 331 Kbps
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (MPEG)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate : 1 415 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.184
Stream size : 920 MiB (61%)
Writing library : XviD 1.0.3 (UTC 2004-12-20)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 499 MiB (33%)
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
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Now, as suggested I tried another program (AVStoDVD). Once everything is set up and the project starts and after a few minutes I get the following message : "MPEG2 enconder stopped working" and no other information but to purge or close. Attached is the log file. As far as my eyes can see I'm starting to believe every program has its own phantoms. Regards.

[lordsmurf]

The file may be corrupted.