What to do with an .mps from I-author

[poopity poop]

I need subtitles, so I'm using I-author. I muxed(silly word)the audio and video and the ogt file. Out pops an mps. I do not wish to make menus with I-author, I want to use something else(not sure what). But I want to see just by itself how the switchable subtitles worked, so I tried to burn the mps as if it were an mpg and it just won't do it. So how can I check to see if the subtitles are working? And is I-author the only program I can use an .mps with?

Also when I double click on the track mps to view the file I get this error: MMSYSTEM296 The file cannont be played ont he specified MCI deivce. The file maybe corrupt..blahblahblah its not corrupt. How can I view the menu and file I made?

[Pko]

Originally posted by poopity poop
I need subtitles, so I'm using I-author.

Best forget I-Author and do the subs with SubMux... Unfortunately there is no guide right now (although is a pretty easy tool, it has his shortcomings...).

I-Author has many bugs and limitations, VCDImager (with or without a GUI frontend such as VCDEasy or VCDComposer) is a much better choice. Simply mux your subs with submux to the MPG file prior to authoring.

I'm planning to write a guide on SVCDs (and sent it to Doom9 for him to include in the site if think it worths it), but don't hold your breath since I are really slow with these projects and may never complete it... Mi idea is to not do a beginner guide but something more advanced, including subtitles and other no-so-common things.

[disturbed1]

When you mux with I-Author, just check the PS check box at the bottom.

You may have to rename the file with a .mpg extension to get authoring packages to use.

[poopity poop]

SubMux is a part of Maestro? What input does submux take? Tell me what you can abotu submux please :)
Does submux work in all DVD players...er..most?

[Pko]

Originally posted by poopity poop
SubMux is a part of Maestro? What input does submux take? Tell me what you can abotu submux please :)
Does submux work in all DVD players...er..most?

Submux is an application originally developed for GNU (S)VCD generator "VCDImager", not as a "production" tool, but as a "proof of concept". The sources are available at vcdimager.org in the "third party tools" or "contributions" directory, cannot remember the name...

Then, DVD2SVCD author compiled it for Win32 and made it available as a separate downlod in his site and also is included in DVD2SVCD bundle. Unfortunately, that compilation had a few minor bugs, and so in a further version of DVD2SVCD, he included a new compiled version (with another compiler) that corrected a few issues.

It is a very simple command line tool, simply run "submux.exe" with no parameters to get some help and then make some tests.

The files with the actual subtitles must be in Philips format (well, in fact submux uses a slightly different variation of that format, but philips' files work OK). You can generate them from a DVD with subrip 0.97b, with the vobsub.exe utility that accompanies submux (that utility allows to extrac subs from any mpg file, not only vobsub, and I think allows to extrat subs from submux-created files). That vobsub utility (nothing to do with the vobsub program used for directx subtitles) has many bugs, though.

If your subs are not from a VOB or MPEG but from a text file (.srt, or .smi, or .ssa or other PC-based text formats), you can convert them to .ssa with one of many tools available (or create them from scratch in .ssa format with tools as subcreator or sub station alpha) and then convert them to submux's format with the excelent MaestroSBT, the most recent version gives GREAT results.

[poopity poop]

thank you that was very helpful. Don't you hate how you have to open dospromt to get the syntaxes...windows shoudl just run a dospromt and leave it open when an executable is double-clicked...anyway thanks

[needle]

A gui for submux can be downloaded from an attachment on the following thread
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?=&threadid=18303.

In my experience, the current version of submux seems to have a bug since produces some distortions in the video stream in a few random positions of the movie. I have noticed these distortions for CVD-style subs. I don't know if the same happens for SVCD-style subs.

Now I use the Iauthor mux program with the option 'PS format' checked, and then I use Vcdxbuild to obtain the bin/cue files. Usually this approach works fine for me.

Best regards,

needle

[Pko]

(Sorry for this off-topic, is just a short answer)

Originally posted by poopity poop
thank you that was very helpful. Don't you hate how you have to open dospromt to get the syntaxes...

It *is* possible to tell Windows to not to close the window when a DOS program ends, I read how somewhere sometime ago... I think you must change the properties of the default command prompt screen, that is done by editing the properties of certain .PIF files in Windows 9x/ME or by certaing registry keys in Win2K/XP. Sorry, cannot remember exactly what nor where those settings are.