I've searched over and over and over......... (about subs!)

[GG028]

True.. lol

[mro]

hello, i am having trouble frameserving from virtualdub 1.5.4
and avisynth 2.52 to encoding to mpeg-1 with tmpgenc 2.520.54.163.

what i am trying to do is burn in subtitles from a dvd to an mpeg-1
xvcd. im sure i set everything up correctly because i do some Source
range (~1-2 minute) test encodes in tmpgenc of the source and they
seem to turn out fine, the subtitles are below the movie and audio is
in sync. however, when i encode the whole 1:33:51 movie, the final
file is the specified size, but at around 25 minutes into the movie
the video and audio are gone and the run time is 1:23:33. i've searched
through the forums for awhile and have not found a solution/answer.

here are my computer and software specs:
pentium III 450Mhz
192MB ram
windows 98 se (swap file on 20GB partition)
virtualdub 1.5.4
avisynth 2.52
tmpgenc 2.520.54.163
smartripper 2.41
dvd2avi 1.76
vobsub 2.23 (with textsub plugin installed)
rubrip 1.17.1
subtitle workshop 2.01

steps taken:
1. ripped .bup, .ifo, .vob from dvd with smartripper.
2. opened vobs in dvd2avi.
3. set audio to decode (.wav) set video (RGB, TV scale) saved (.d2v).
4. made avisynth script.
# PLUGINS
LoadPlugin("mpeg2dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("TomsMoComp.dll")
# SOURCE
mpeg2source("E:\movie.d2v")
# DEINTERLACING
TomsMoComp(1,5,1)
# CROPPING
crop(6,12,710,460)
# RESIZING for NTSC-VCD
BicubicResize(352,192,0,0.5)
# BORDERS
AddBorders(0,24,0,24)
5. ran vobsub and ripped english subtitles (.idx, .sub).
6. ran subrip and performed ocr on subtitles and saved (.srt).
7. opened .srt file in subtitle workshop and made edits.
8. opened .avs in virtualdub and setup "textsub" video filter.
9. setup .wav audio and adjusted interleaving to 250ms.
10. started virtualdub frame server (.vdr).
11. opened .vdr in tmpgenc and set appropriate settings.
12. ran arbitrary source range tests and made sure output was correct.
13. encoded the whole movie in ~8 hours.
14. opened final movie and the first ~25 minutes are good, the rest blank.
15. scratched my head and wondered wtf happened.

i think that virtualdub's frameserver is messing the encode up, because
after the encode is done and i stop the frameserver, i cannot view the
original source video in virtualdub. if someone has this problem or knows
what's goin on, any help/suggestions would be very much appreciated. thank you.

[Ejoc]

This is an AVISynth Script that would add subtitles made from Vobsub to add to a DVD2AVI .d2v project file.

LoadPlugin("MPEG2dec3.dll")

LoadVirtualDubPlugin("c:\program files\dvd\vd\plugins\vobsub_vd.vdf","vobsub",1)

MPEG2source(".d2v")

ConvertToRGB32()

vobsub("vts_01_0")

[GG028]

Try DVD2SVCD... it does most of those steps automatically... I guess that deacreases chances of human error....