convert avi to svcd with sub

[malaya]

hi,

I'm new to this conversion thing, i have an AVI movie i like to convert to svcd with subtitles i have follow all the instuction on major website. i select encode with mplayer but the progress bar keep spinning all day not encoding anything. if i use encode with QT it's encoding but no subtitles. pls help. i have try with all sub files such as .idx and .sub the result is same. i'm using ffmpegX 0.0.9a. what did i do wrong.

Thank you
malayarock

[major]

Click the blue "i" icon and post the process output, which could include relevant error messages.

[keops]

I have followed too the instructions in major's web page, with the same version fo ffmpegX (0.0.9a) and it worked fine after several attempts. At the begining I found a lot of problems, I think because I had installed the program on a second HD and not on the boot HD. Finally I installed again everything ffmpegX and all related files on the boot HD (the program appears now into the Applications Folder) and put the avi and the sub file into a folder in the root level of the computer which name have no spaces, dots or symbols. And it all worked. I used a sub file in format .srt.
I only have a problem. Once the avi is encoded, the MPEG-2 shows two black bars up and down to make the movie shows properly in TV, but sub appears on the movie and I cannot make it shows on the lower black bar.

How can I do that?

Thanks,
keops.

[malaya]

Thank you major for the quick reply.

this is what i got in ffmpegX progress info

Encoding started on Sun Mar 14 18:29:12 GMT 2004
-f 5 -b 2500 -q 6 -B 260 -V 230 -a 2
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
MPlayer dev-CVS-030316-14:10-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
: No such file or directory
AltiVec found
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.confReading config file /Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/config
Reading /Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Using built-in default codecs.conf
CommandLine: '-noframedrop' '-vo' 'yuv4mpeg' '-ao' 'pcm' '-waveheader' '-v' '-osdlevel' '0' '/Users/mansormuhammad/Movies/A' 'tale' 'of' 'two' 'sisters/A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.avi' '-aid' '1' '-sid' '0' '-sub' '/Users/mansormuhammad/Movies/A' 'tale' 'of' 'two' 'sisters/A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.sub'
can't open '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
ers/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
font: can't open file: /Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Unoptimized OnScreenDisplay
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.
get_path('input.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/input.conf'
get_path('A.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/A.conf'
File not found: '/Users/mansormuhammad/Movies/A'
Playing /Users/mansormuhammad/Movies/A
Not an URL!
get_path('tale.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/tale.conf'
Playing tale
Not an URL!
get_path('of.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/of.conf'
Playing of
Not an URL!
get_path('two.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/two.conf'
Playing two
Not an URL!
get_path('A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.avi.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.avi.conf'
File not found: 'tale'
File not found: 'of'
File not found: 'two'
File not found: 'sisters/A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.avi'
File not found: 'tale'
File not found: 'of'
File not found: 'two'
File not found: 'sisters/A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.sub'
le.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.avi
Not an URL!
get_path('tale.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/tale.conf'
Playing tale
Not an URL!
get_path('of.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/of.conf'
Playing of
Not an URL!
get_path('two.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/two.conf'
Playing two
Not an URL!
get_path('A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.sub.conf') -> '/Users/mansormuhammad/.mplayer/A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.sub.conf'
Playing sisters/A.Tale.Of.Two.Sisters.2003.XviD.AC3.CD1-Shiher.sub
Not an URL!
Exiting... (End of file)

[major]

Remove all spaces and special characters from your file and folder names.

[malaya]

Thank you Major, i change all folder and files to 1 single shorter name and it's working great.

Thank you