problems with an .h264 mvk converting to DVD with .srt subs

[jbeaman]

I get the following error no matter which DVD format i choose. any suggestions?

INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler 1.9.0 (15-02-2004) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
Tue Jul 29 23:28:33 BRT 2008
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2004 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>, yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING SSE and MMX for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION!
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved..
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] Could'nt read YUV4MPEG header!
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!


thanks guys.

[Case]

DVD mpeg2enc defaults to decoding with Quicktime. And a default QuickTime install doesn't support Matroska.
Try switching to decoding with mplayer; or install Perian to help QuickTime deal with MKV files. The first option (mplayer) was 12% faster on my test file.