No VIDEO_TS folder produced

[scud]

I am trying to encode an AVI file with its subtitle (which is in .srt) to a form that would fit on a DVD that would be played by my home DVD player (not DivX enabled.) The AVI file has the audio track embedded into it.

Although I select the correct preset (DVD mpeg2enc) and load the subtitle file, all I get in the end is a .m2v file -if I remember correctly-
no VIDEO_TS folder at all.

I am a total newbie, so please go easy on me!

PS: forgot to mention that I used ffmpegX

[PiggyWiggy]

Are there any spaces in your path? Even a space in the Hard Disk name could cause this, like: 'Macintosh HD'... Make sure there are no spaces and try again...

You can simply use the .m2v file and another audio file should be there as well, and mux them together using the ffmpegX tools 'mux' option.

[scud]

Hi, and thanks for the reply...

I tried your suggestion with no luck. As a matter of fact, I noticed that the file produced was really small, it would not open with QT player because it could not be recognized and I also noticed that the whole procedure did not last as long as I thought it would...
It took about an hour for the first 3 percent, last time I checked, and half an hour later it was complete. I suppose that something caused the operation to stop abuptly.

Any ideas?

[PiggyWiggy]

That sounds weird... Out of my knowledge... Hope some1 else jumps in to help you... ^^

[Case]

all I get in the end is a .m2v file

How long, in minutes, is your AVI?
How big, in GB, is your .m2v file?
There is an approximate relation between the two. If it is way off from what's expected, then maybe the video gave an error. If the .m2v is complete, the it would likely be an audio error.

[sushii]

Hi, I'm having the same problem with ffmpegX .0.0.9v(which I recently upgraded from .0.0.9t).
I am trying to make a DVD from an .avi file using the the dvd ffmpeg option from the dropdown. Before upgrading I had no problems, now I don't get any kind of video_ts/audio_ts folder at all and all I get are these three files:

-Shinobi.avi.ff.mpg 2.15 GB
-Shinobi.avi.ff.mpg.s.mpg Zero KB
-Shinobi.avi.ff.mpg.xml 4 KB

and here is the process output:

Encoding started on Mon Mar 6 22:22:26 CST 2006
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/jaykay/Desktop/Shinobi/Shinobi.avi':
Duration: 01:46:35.8, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 914 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 23.98 fps: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 672x288
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, dvd, to '/Users/jaykay/Desktop/Shinobi/Shinobi.avi.ff.mpg':
Stream #0.0, nan fps: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-20, 4000 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
video:1840371kB audio:349774kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 3.041121%
bench: utime=5448.698s
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: 242 glyphs.
ERR: Couldn't load file /Users/jaykay/Desktop/Shinobi/Shinobi.sub.

[kelman3]

DesertRat told me to install the Divx decoder for mac.
I did and it solved the VIDEO_TS folder problem for me.

http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/download/