Xvid Avi Files With Subs to DVD5

[moumiaq]

Hi guys i have 2 avi files xvid and subtitles .srt . Is there a program that can create a dvd5 with the subtitles in the movie?

[CWR03]

It would be easier, and would yield better quality, if you returned to the disk and made a 1:1 copy instead.

[celtic_druid]

Aside from the fact that the question really has nothing to do with Xvid. It is about MPEG-2 encoding and DVD authoring.

[soinow]

I ever converted xvid with .srt subtitles to DVD using winavi video converter (http://www.winavi.com/en/video-converter/video-converter.htm). And it worked fine, very simple and fast.
Btw, before the conversion, I had installed a vobsub.

[setarip_old]

@soinow

Hi and welcome ;>}

May I ask why you didn't simply make a backup of the original source, which I presume is your DVD?

I ask because:

A) As mentioned by "CWR03", it would be much quicker and simpler to do, and

B) The resultant quality would certainly be better than the quality of something first converted from DVD to XviD-compressed .AVI and then back to DVD-compliant format

[Mary H]

I have successfully converted several subtitled AVI files + SRT subtitle files to DVD using ConvertXtoDVD.

BTW -- In my case, this is material that was never in a DVD, it's from recorded interviews that I subtitled. The original poster also doesn't say anything about the original material being from a DVD. It isn't always! :D

[setarip_old]

@Mary H

Boy, that must have been a laborious task!

May I ask, what software did you use to create the .SRT subtitle files - and how did you coordinate the timing with the audio?

Did you capture the videos as XviD (The codec of the videos by "moumiac") or, since you knew you'd be converting to DVD, did you use a lossless codec?

[Mary H]

I use Subtitle Workshop to create the SRT files. Those are synched with the video which I capture as MPG2 with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 card. Then I use AutoGK to create Xvid files, sometimes with hard-burned subtitles and sometimes leaving the SRT files separate.

A friend requested a DVD of some of this material, and I had accidentally deleted the original MPG2 files, so wanted to find a way to make a DVD from the Xvid + SRT files. ConvertXtoDVD did a very nice job. I've also discovered since then that TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 will import almost any kind of video and also allows 2 subtitle tracks.

[setarip_old]

@Mary H

Thanks for the info (Although I don't understand how the subtitles get synched - but that's likely just another consequence of old age ;>} )!

Hopefully, we'll hear back from "moumiaq"...

[joseph5]

Although I don't understand how the subtitles get synched Subtitle Workshop has an integrated video player, so you can set start and end times for each subtitle line easily while watching the video. Sometimes it can take a lot of trial and error, but it can be done.

[setarip_old]

@joseph5

Thanks ;>}