AVI to DVD with selectable subtitles

[egooxenos]

Another newbie to the software doing something wrong? Perhaps. Nonetheless I need the forum's help and thus my post.

I am trying to convert an AVI file to DVD with selectable subtitles, burn it onto a disc and play it on a standalone DVD player. I follow the steps of the "HOW TO MAKE A DVD WITH SELECTABLE SUBTITLES ON MAC OSX WITH FFMPEGX" guide, I choose AVI for input and DVD mpeg2enc for output. After encodind is done I don't get the movie.DVD folder with the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS files inside. Instead I get 3 files with ac3, m2v and mpg extensions respectively.

What am I doing wrong? am I supposed to do something further with these files before burning the DVD disc?

Thanks in advance for any response.

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our ffmpegx section.

[Baldrick]

And SEARCH, I tried search for ac3 m2v and found this:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic375855.html#2025144

[egooxenos]

Baldrick, thanks very much for your reply. By the way what a brilliant name for login name!!! Comes with an even better face too!!! I love Black Adder.

On the matter in hand, I followed the link and it offered some explanation to my problem but I am not quite sure on how to proceed. For instance, where is the Process Information log file? Do I have to go through the same time-consuming proccess every time I need to convert an Avi file to DVD with subtitles, I mean first encoding it and then authoring it?

Thanks again.

[egooxenos]

After searching the forum and reading some relevant posts I managed to find the Process Information log(thanks to Case). So here is a good part of the beginning:

Encoding started on Thu Dec 3 12:04:36 EET 2009
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler 1.9.0 (15-02-2004) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2004 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>, yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for PREDICTION!
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved..
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: chroma: 4:2:0 JPEG/MPEG-1 (interstitial)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [yuvscaler] from 720x576, take 720x576+0+0, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] scale to 720x576, 720x576 being displayed
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling uses the RESAMPLE algorithm,
INFO: [yuvscaler] frame rate: 25.000 fps
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling ratio for width is 1 to 1
INFO: [yuvscaler] and is 1 to 1 for height
INFO: [yuvscaler] Specific downscaling routing number 4
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: chroma: 4:2:0 JPEG/MPEG-1 (interstitial)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD with dummy navigation packets output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm PAL
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to /Users/yfouflias/Downloads/Movies/Pirates of The Caribbean-The Curse of The Black Pearl.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 4000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 3 (Quantisation = 3) (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] New Sequence every 9999 Mbytes
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming non-video stream of 0 Kbps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] DualPrime: no
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using one-pass rate control
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 7 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using default unmodified quantization matrices
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] PAR = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Creating worker thread 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] NEW GOP INIT length 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 45 45( 0) I q=3.00 [100% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 48 48( 3) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 49 49( 4) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
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It goes all the way to 175630 without any errors reported. Here is a bit of the bottom part:

INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175586 175586(11) P q=3.00 [13% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175587 175587(12) P q=3.00 [14% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175588 175588(13) P q=3.00 [9% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175589 175589(14) P q=3.00 [2% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175590 175590( 0) I q=3.00 [100% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175591 175591( 1) P q=3.00 [1% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175596 175596( 6) P q=3.00 [1% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175597 175597( 7) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175598 175598( 8) P q=3.00 [2% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175600 175600(10) P q=3.00 [1% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175602 175602(12) P q=3.00 [1% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175603 175603(13) P q=3.00 [1% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175604 175604(14) P q=3.00 [3% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175605 175605( 0) I q=3.00 [100% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175606 175606( 1) P q=3.00 [4% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175607 175607( 2) P q=3.00 [3% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175610 175610( 5) P q=3.00 [3% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175611 175611( 6) P q=4.15 [44% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175614 175614( 9) P q=3.61 [4% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175616 175616(11) P q=3.55 [2% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175617 175617(12) P q=3.62 [0% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175618 175618(13) P q=3.58 [1% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175619 175619(14) P q=3.66 [0% Intra]
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INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175620 175620( 0) I q=3.75 [100% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175621 175621( 1) P q=3.62 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175622 175622( 2) P q=3.56 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175623 175623( 3) P q=3.64 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175624 175624( 4) P q=3.48 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175625 175625( 5) P q=3.48 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175626 175626( 6) P q=3.45 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175627 175627( 7) P q=3.63 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175628 175628( 8) P q=3.35 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175629 175629( 9) P q=3.35 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 175630 175630(10) P q=3.33 [0% Intra]

This is where it ends. I hope that the above will help anyone with a better grasp of the program than myself to understand what the problem is.

Thanks.

[Case]

The log shouldn't end like that. The log should show other stuff after converting 175630 frames. There are no errors to diagnose in the part you posted.

[egooxenos]

Case, thank you very much for your reply.

Even a newbie like myself knew there was something unusual about my logs' ending.

Is there anything else I should try before attempting to encode the avi file once again? Any particular points I should pay attention to?

Thank you.

[Case]

mpeg2enc logs can get very long, as every single frame is mentioned with 4 lines. For a 143 minute movie that would be about 143 * 60 * 25 = 214,500 frames. I'm not sure if the clipboard has a maximum, but I suppose copying and pasting from the Process Information window to e.g. TextEdit or Safari some content could get cut off, if such a maximum is exceeded. Could it be that some log content could have gone lost that way? (Next time, scroll all the way down to compare the end of the log with the end of what you pasted in another app.)

Instead I get 3 files with ac3, m2v and mpg extensions respectively.

If all went well, then the audio from the .ac3 file and the video from the .m2v file were muxed (combined) into the .mpg file. Can you check the .mpg file for completeness in e.g. VLC? Try playing the beginning, somewhere in the middle and near the end.
If the .mpg file is good, then you won't have to convert all over again, and resume with authoring.

Next, what kind of subtitles were you trying to add? Possibly the subtitles is were the error occurred that halted the conversion process.

[egooxenos]

I' m not sure either about the capacity of the clipboard but I did paste parts of what the process Information window produced after hitting the blue "i" button. I am pretty certain that the end of the log was around 175000 frames.

The individual files, .ac3, .m2v and .mpg are OK, the .mpg file plays in both VLC and OuickTime without any hickups right till the end of the movie. It's the subtitles that I don't get them to appear although they seem to be there when I hit both of the preview buttons in ffmpegX.

I am trying to add English subtitles through an .srt file. Come to that actually, I don't care anymore if they are selectable or not after having so much trouble by getting them just to appear along with the movie.

Thanks Case.

[Case]

In the Tools tab, select the Author sub-tab. Locate your .mpg and .srt file and start the authoring process (screenshot).
Normally, ffmpegX should continue with authoring after conversion, but if it halts for some reason without obvious error, at least you can try to continue as described.