how do i burn a vcd with subtitles?

[shamway]

i convertsed an avi divx movie with tmpeg to vcd, now i have some questions:

1) the original movie was 705m, and the vcd is 840m, but the quallity isn't as good, what should i do to have the same quallity, and how big should the file be?

2) how do i add subtitles, that would be seen on a regular dvd?

3) how do i burn on cd? do i have to do something special, or do i burn it as aregular file?

thank's

[dragonchan]

u burn as a vcd file under Nero. for the subtitles, if the file has it then ok. u can't jsut added subtitles like that.

[marazmas]

1. VCD format is 352*288 for PAL and 352*240 for NTSC. Try SVCD for higher resoliution. More you can read at this page left corner (What is ... SVCD).
2. VCD can't have subtitles. Try SVCD.
3. You can't burn VCD as putting regular *.mpg file to disc. More read at this page left corner (How to ... Author).

[Vejita-sama]

VCD can't have selectable subtitles (ie. you can turn them on/off) but that's ok as most DVD players don't support this. If you want subtitles you'll have to make them permanant subtitles.

1) The size of your souce doesn't affect the size of your encoded MPEG. The only thing that matters is the runtime. The quaility of your source DIRECTLY affects the qauility of your MPEG!
How big should the file be? It'll be (movie length in seconds) * (video + audio bitrates) = size (in kbits). Divide by 8 to convert kbits to kbytes.
You didn't say but I'm going to assume you are useing TMPGenc to encode your MPEG and the standard VCD template. The specs for the standard VCD template are as follows:
Resolution: 352x240
Video bitrate: 1150kbit/s CBR (constand bitrate) encode
Audio bitrate: 224kbit/s

Assuming you have a good source, you can get better quaility by changing these settings. You would then make an xVCD. xVCD isn't better or worst than VCD, just non-increasing the video bitrate, and depending on the number of discs you want to use lowering the audio bitrate.

Take a look under the Tools link to the left at the vcdhelp.com bitrate calculator. Plug in all the info and see what works best for you.

2) To add subtitles is easy. Question - what's the source of these subtitles? If you source is a DVD rip then you can use the subtitles from that. Or is do you have a script (text file) with the subs you want to add?

If it's a DVD rip look the left under Author for adding subtitles with Flask, or read the guide at:
http://www.flexion.org/video/DVDConv/DVD2AVI/
or use DVDx or DVD2SVCD (www.doom9.org look under the guides).

To add subtitles from a script file, I would d/load SubStation Alpha (http://www.eswat.demon.co.uk/substation.html), Virtual Dub and the SSA filter for Vdub (http://www.virtualdub.org/) this will allow you to add custom subtitles to your video source. You then framserve from VDub to TMPGenc.

3) You can't burn your MPEG as a regular file. Take a look to the left under Author for ways to burn your MPEG.

[shamway]

thank's for the help
could you explain how exactly the frameserve work, what should i do?