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5th April 2002, 17:27

Hi!

I can't seem to create any subtitles in i-author. I have downloaded and tried the vcdhelp-sample and it works great, so my dvd-player supports switchable subtitles.

I create i-author .txt files with maestroSBT, save the output file as .ps, and burn it with nero. The movie plays great on the dvd, but there's no subtitles!

During the muxing i get an error message which says "found a a/v out of synch data sequence". Is it possible that the problem lies there ? I have tried to lower the audiobitrate, and also muxed without any audio-source.

Can someone please help me?

guillep2k

5th April 2002, 21:51

It's difficult to say. May be your player supports Philips (SVCD) instead of CVD (I-Author) subtitles? If that's the case, you should use submux instead (comes with TSCV). I-Author is a very weak program... it crashes a LOT...

Guille

7th April 2002, 19:44

Thanks guillep2k for answering =)

I have tried submux but it doesn't accept the .srt files i try to mux. Is there any other way to add subtitles to an mpeg-2 file (or avi file) ? I would prefer switchable subtitles but permanent subtitles will be ok. I just don't want any quality loss in the output svcd because of the subtitles.

I have tried to frameserve with VirtualDub into TMPEGEnc but the quality of the output file is just too bad with that method.

Thankful for all replies.

guillep2k

7th April 2002, 20:08

I have tried submux but it doesn't accept the .srt files i try to mux.Yeah... but I-Author doesn't accept srt files either! ;)

You need a few more steps to do that:

1) Convert the .SRT file to .SSA version 4 (several tools do that).

2) Create a .sub + .bmp file set with MaestroSBT.

I hope this helps!

Guille

guillep2k

9th April 2002, 23:20

I found an error in the graphic library I'm using for MaestroSBT that causes I-Author to fail reading the bitmaps (it's actually a bug in I-Author). I'll have a fixed version in a couple of days (I didn't write the library, so I asked the guy to fix it). This seems to be the seed of all evil. Check Doom9's news (http://www.doom9.org/) these days for the forthcoming version of MaestroSBT.

Guille