DVD Maestro(realtime preview not available)what's happening?

[LordVader]

DVD Maestro Ver. 2.9

when i start the program , a message on the screen say that :

realtime preview will not be available , because no decoders have been detected , same history with Scenarist & ReelDVD.

what's happening ? i need some extra files ?

[Fredrick]

You need Cinemaster or something like it with the right decoders to use preview.

[LordVader]

is there any other program i can use to author MPEG with multiple audio tracks ?

[SLK001]

I just says that the preview is not available. You can still use Maestro to create a video title set, then use a software player to test it (yes, this is a "little" longer, but after a while, you won't really need to preview at all).

[LordVader]

works fine , thanx for the tip.

hey, DVD maestro has an option to import subtitles.
How do i get the subtitle file from DVDs, and import it in Maestro ?

[SLK001]

Ever heard of SUBRIP and SUBRIPPER?

[LordVader]

yep , but apparently , that program don't extract the subtitle as well , you have to do something else , and is really hard to get it.

i'm trying to get the subtitle right now with subrip, but nothing.

[SLK001]

Humm, I played around last night with a program that read the subtitle substream bitmaps and did an "OCR" on the result, then output the results to a Scenarist or Maestro sub format. It did a pretty decent (actually, very good) job. The only problem it has is that it cannot tell the difference between a capital "I" and an "l" in the font that was used, because they were identical. Some post editing would correct the errors. I thought that the program was SUBRIP 1.03. I can send it to you if you need it. PM me if so.