Question about an AVI file with subtitles...

[TempestGarden]

Hi everyone.

I am trying to convert an avi file to DVD that was originally encoded with Xvid, but the problem that I am having is the subtitles were encoded with VobSob (soo annoying....) and I am having some issues getting them to all display properly when I convert the avi to an mpeg file using TMPGEnc 2.5. I found a couple of posts on the forums about a very similar issue to mine, where they said to demux the subtitles by first loading the avi file into VirtualDubMod. Well...... every time I try to load the file into the program, it crashes it!! Does anyone happen to know what might be going on? Or, if not, is there another way that I can change/convert the subtitles so that they will all appear when I am encoding the file?

Thanks...

[mats.hogberg]

So, you don't have the subs as a separate file, they are a stream in the AVI?

/Mats

[TempestGarden]

Yeah they are.

And you know what is weird. I just loaded the file into GSpot to try to get some other info about it and it said it is not a valid avi file. (??) I can watch it on the computer fine with any number of various players, but it seems it may have been originally encoded in some strange fashion.

Any ideas?

[celtic_druid]

As far as I know an avi can't contain vobsubs. It can only contain srt and ssa subs. Could be wrong though.

Perhaps you have say an mkv renamed to avi? Although GSpot should report that and it probably shouldn't crash VDubMod.

[TempestGarden]

Okay.

I have determined that the files are indeed .mkv (sic). For some reason they all crash VDubMod and won't display their info in GSpot. When I try to open them in VDubMod, I get this error/crash message...

"An out-of-bounds memory access (access violation) occurred in module 'VirtualDubMod'."

It also says "Crash Reason: Access Violation"

Any idea what is happening here?

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, it's not an AVI: A quick search in the convert section yields this (MKV to DVD)

/Mats