Problem with authoring DVD folder

[nanook]

Hello everyone,

this is my first post and being new at ffmpegX please bear with me.

I've been trying to create DVD with subtitles with the aforementioned software. The problem is that at the end of the encoding process I end up with 5 files but no DVD folder.

The 5 files are:

moviename.ac3

moviename.m2v

moviename.mpg

moviename.xml

moviename.s.mpg

Reading previous threads, my impression is that the xml file should instruct FF to author a folder, but obviously this isn't happening.

Any suggestion?

Many thanks in advance!

[Baldrick]

What does the Process Information log file say? Post it here.

[Case]

Most likely the Process Information log will show the error that prevented the completion. The error description should hint at steps to prevent the error.

[nanook]

Baldrick and Case: thank you for your replies. I'll post the beginning and end of Process Information log below. I'll substitute the real movie name with "movie.name":

INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING SSE and MMX for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION!
Thu Nov 19 14:39:10 CET 2009
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler 1.9.0 (15-02-2004) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2004 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>, yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2006 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved..
++ WARN: [yuvscaler] Could not infer norm (PAL/SECAM or NTSC) from input data (frame size=720x480, frame rate=24000:1001 fps)!!
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame size: 720x480 pixels (518400 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: chroma: 4:2:0 JPEG/MPEG-1 (interstitial)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame rate: 24000/1001 fps (~23.976024)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [yuvscaler] from 720x480, take 720x480+0+0, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] scale to 720x480, 720x480 being displayed
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling uses the RESAMPLE algorithm,
INFO: [yuvscaler] frame rate: 23.976 fps
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling ratio for width is 1 to 1
INFO: [yuvscaler] and is 1 to 1 for height
INFO: [yuvscaler] Specific downscaling routing number 4
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame size: 720x480 pixels (518400 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: chroma: 4:2:0 JPEG/MPEG-1 (interstitial)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame rate: 24000/1001 fps (~23.976024)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD with dummy navigation packets output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm NTSC
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to /Users/giovanni/Desktop/movie.name CD 1.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 480 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 1 = 24000.0/1001.0 (NTSC 3:2 pulldown converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 4000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 3 (Quantisation = 3) (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] New Sequence every 9999 Mbytes
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming non-video stream of 0 Kbps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] DualPrime: no
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using one-pass rate control
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 7 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "NTSC"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using default unmodified quantization matrices
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX and MMX for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] PAR = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Creating worker thread 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] NEW GOP INIT length 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 0 0( 0) I q=3.00 [100% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 1 1( 1) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 2 2( 2) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 3 3( 3) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 4 4( 4) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 5 5( 5) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 6 6( 6) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 7 7( 7) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 8 8( 8) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 9 9( 9) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 10 10(10) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 11 11(11) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 12 12(12) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 13 13(13) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 14 14(14) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] NEW GOP INIT length 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 15 15( 0) I q=3.00 [100% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 16 16( 1) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 17 17( 2) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 18 18( 3) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Enc1 19 19( 4) P q=3.00 [0% Intra]
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Working: stripe 0/1 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: stripe 0 done
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Worker: getting

END:

video:0kB audio:206829kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.9.0 (2.2.7 $Date: 2006/02/01 22:23:01 $)
INFO: [mplex] File /Users/giovanni/Desktop/movie.name CD 1.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] File /Users/giovanni/Desktop/movie.name CD 1.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (/Users/giovanni/Desktop/movie.name CD 1.m2v)
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 720
INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 480
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 23.976 frames/sec
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 4000000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 0
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (/Users/giovanni/Desktop/movie.name CD 1.ac3)
INFO: [mplex] AC3 frame size = 1792
INFO: [mplex] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 4551400
INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [mplex] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [mplex] Run-in delay = 7507 Video delay = 7507 Audio delay = 11261
INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 0 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Audio bd: buf= 0 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Scanned to end AU 90680
INFO: [mplex] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 90680.
INFO: [mplex] STREAM bd completed @ frame 118187.
INFO: [mplex] Multiplex completion at SCR=340367067.
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 162774 frame=090680 sector=00713293
INFO: [mplex] Audio bd: buf= 14336 frame=118187 sector=00105057
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [mplex] Video Stream length: 1438281458 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Sequence headers: 6046
INFO: [mplex] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [mplex] No. Pictures : 90681
INFO: [mplex] No. Groups : 6046
INFO: [mplex] No. I Frames : 6046 avg. size 27329 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. P Frames : 84635 avg. size 15041 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Average bit-rate : 3042000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Peak bit-rate : 4172000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 218262
INFO: [mplex] AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
INFO: [mplex] Audio stream length 211792896 bytes.
INFO: [mplex] Frames : 118188
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 1603
INFO: [mplex] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
WARN: Could not determine file format
INFO: Unicode font: 242 glyphs.
ERR: Couldn't load file /Users/giovanni/Downloads/movie.name.DVDRip.XviD-iMBT/Subs/movie.name.dvdrip.xvid-imbt-cd1.idx.

Let me know if you need any other info in order to diagnose the problem.

Thanks!

[Case]

INFO: [mplex] Multiplex completion at SCR=340367067.

The video and audio were successfully encoded and multiplexed. The output is the .mpg file. The good part is that you won't need to do this time-consuming step again, as ffmpegX provides tools to continue from here:
In the Tools tab, there is an Author sub-tab, with .mpg and optionally .srt as input, and a DVD folder as output.

ERR: Couldn't load file /Users/giovanni/Downloads/movie.name.DVDRip.XviD-iMBT/Subs/movie.name.dvdrip.xvid-imbt-cd1.idx.

ffmpegX cannot process adding VobSub subtitles (.idx+.sub) as selectable subtitles for DVD. I suggest finding a SubRip (.srt) subtitle file for your movie (1) (2). It's much easier (and faster at this point) than the workarounds.

[nanook]

Hey Case,

thank you SO much!!!

I authored as you suggested and everything went fine!

Also, I'l make sure to use only .srt subtitles from now on.

You are a genius! Thank you again!