After DVD encoding problem...

[hobowatcher]

I have encoded the file in ffmpegX. However, it does not end up in the movie.DVD directory. It ends up back in the folder the original files were in.

These are the files I start with:

Video:
Les ma¯tres fous (1955).avi

Subtitles:
Les ma¯tres fous (1955).srt

These are the files I end up with after encoding:

Les ma¯tres fous (1955).avi.ff.m2v
Les ma¯tres fous (1955).avi.ff.mp2
Les ma¯tres fous (1955).avi.ff.mpg
Les ma¯tres fous (1955).avi.ff.mpg.s.mpg
Les ma¯tres fous (1955).avi.ff.mpg.xml

Again, no movie.DVD directory is created. No AUDIO_TS folder is created. No VIDEO_TS folder is created. They all just ended up back into the folder where the original .avi and .srt were in. I also cannot find the DVDImg option under Tools.

What kind of folders should I make before DVD burning? Can I download DVDImg?

Here is my computer info in case it will be of some help:
iMac
Mac OS X 10.6.1
Intel Core 2 Duo

Thanks for the help!

[Case]

Possibly the DVD authoring portion of ffmpegX is tripping over the special character "î", represented as "¯" in your post. Next time, try "cleaning up" the filenames before conversion.

Delete all output files except the .mpg file. You could rename your .mpg file with a regular "i", and continue with the authoring, using the Author tool. This allows you to use the already converted video and audio in the .mpg file, but you have to add the subtitles again. The process should be fast, as the conversion from AVI to MPEG is already done.

The ffmpegX DVDImg tool is at the "img" sub-tab in the Tools section. It wants you to select a folder containing VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS as input, i.e. the "movie.DVD" folder.

(There is a very similar stand-alone GUI imager tool "DVD Imager", to turn VIDEO_TS folders into disk images.)