movie + subs = only half of movie :( please help

[trydt]

This problem has been at me for more than a month, ive hit afterdawn and copernic hard but i have no answers. please help me if you can. ive converted an mkv file to dvd but then realised i didnt get the subs. so i then extracted the subs using mkvextract and sloted em into avi2dvd in srt format and encoded again. burned again, and found i got the subs but only 32 mins of the movie and then it just stopped? reencoded with dvdsanta and got the same annoying result. the subtitles appear to be complete when i look at the file and burning without them got me the whole movie on the disk. anyone with an idea? please, its a great movie.

for the sake of usin one of the fancy smilies you have here:thanks:

[manusse]

Hi trydt,

Maybe you can use subtitlecreator to solve your problem.

1°) Check that your dvd without subtitles is working fine.
2°) Open SubtitleCreator 2.0.0 RC1 (or later), open your srt file and convert it to sup using the font and positions you like. You can preview the final result with your dvd.
3°) When you are satisfied with the result, use SubtitleCreator's DVD authoring wizard to automatically add your sup file to your DVD.
4°) Check the result and if OK, burn it.

The only things you need are:
-Install .NET framework 2.0 first
-3 times your DVD size of free hard disk space.

Hope this will do it.
Cheers
Manusse

[trydt]

cheers manusse, subtitle creator works ok with mkv files? can you(or anyone) think of any reason this odd problem occurred?

[manusse]

SubtitleCreator works only with srt, sub (text files) or sup (binary files).

However it includes a DVD authoring wizard that allows to add some subtitle streams to an existing DVD. It doesn't know mkv.

If I've correctly understood your problem you want to create a video DVD with some subtitles.

What you must do is first create your DVD without subtitles. And then use SubtitleCreator to first convert your srt file to a sup file and then use its wizard to add the generated sup file to the already existing dvd.

If you install SubtitleCreator, you can use the pdf file that will also be installed at the same time to know how to do.

Cheers
Manusse

[trydt]

Phew, thats a nice tool, I thought once a disk was burned that was that. Im guessing seeing as it works with an existing dvd, it doesnt matter what the original file format was? Ill see now I guess

This has been really helpful manusse, thanks, very much appreciated

[manusse]

I thought once a disk was burned that was that

Just to be clear. SC will use some additional tools (all freeware) to demux the dvd (pgcdemux), remux it with your sup file (muxman) and if needed regenerate the original menus (vobblanker).

Of course these processes will occur on your hard disk. At the end you will get the final DVD that you can burn.

For the video, SC works with DVD which is a known (quite universal) format (it works better with a ripped DVD on your HDD). For the subtitles, it can use subtitle text files that use either the .srt or .sub formats. The authoring wizard itself uses muxman sup files (generated by SC using srt or sub files).

Hope it's clear
Manusse

[trydt]

heh, forgive my stupidity. all clear now, perfect sense. once again, thanks for your help and patience :P