Subtitle Workshop 2.51 can't load a video

[Charmer]

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[Chris K]

I stick to SW 2.51 too for the same reasons but also get an error message with vob and mpg clips.

You could convert reasonably fast to an xvid with FFmpeg...

ffmpeg.exe -i "c:\source.vob" -vcodec libxvid -b 800k -s 176x144 -intra -acodec libmp3lame -y "c:\out_clip.avi"

Because I don't care about the picture quality but want to convert as fast as possible, I use a small frame size. Because I want SW to jump frame accurate when I double click on a line, I add -intra (intra frames only) to the command line.

[Baldrick]

Can you play the vob or mpg in windows media player? If not you need a mpeg2 decoder. ffdshow should work.

[Charmer]

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[Chris K]

but can you tell me how can I add a code to it? I have never used any command line program and I have no idea how to start it, where to copy the content you gave me, etc.

Probably the easiest way is to first create a temporary folder and copy FFmpeg and the vob or mpg to it.
Then open notepad and copy the example command line to it. You can take off the drive letters this way like;

ffmpeg.exe -i "your_source.vob" -vcodec libxvid -b 800k -s 176x144 -intra -acodec libmp3lame -y "out_clip.avi"

Then save this from notepad, also to the same folder, as a batch file like e.g. "convert.bat". Finally double click on that file after which the black FFmpeg console window should show up and encoding starts.

If you want to stop encoding to check out, press the "Q" key. Then the output clip is playable. For the final encoding, you'll have to wait till FFmpeg closes.

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[AlanHK]

Edit: When I open it with SW, it says:
Script error: there is no function named "MPEG2Source" (D:\yourfile.avs, line1).

You need to install MPEG2Source and NicAC3 separately, they don't come with the basic install of Avisynth.

See
http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/QuickStart.html
http://nicaudio.codeplex.com/Wikipage

The "Quick start" link above tells you how to make the d2v (index) file; this is very quick.

-- I never knew that I could use an AVS file in SW. It doesn't let you choose an AVS file as the "movie" (at least in my setup), but if you type in the file name, it works...

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