author dvd - with subtitles

[dezibel]

Hi there doom9 ppl, and thank's for one of the best videosites on the web :) My first post, so please be nice ;)

I am trying to author dvds on linux (ubuntu), and i found the lovly script, tovid (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/). This is perfect for me. now, what i'm looking for is a guide that can tell me how to convert my .srt subs into selectable subs on my final dvd. anyone that know of a good script for this job? thanks in advance :)

[albertgasset]

DVDAuthor (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net) is a set of tools for DVD authoring. It includes spumux, which can create DVD subtitles from srt subtitles and mux them into an mpg file. Look at this thread (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709) from Gentoo forums, it explains how to author DVD using DVDauthor and other tools, including a section on how to use spumux. Basically, you have to create an xml file similar to this:
<subpictures>
<stream>
<textsub filename="matrix.srt" characterset="ISO8859-1"
fontsize="18.0" font="Vera.ttf" horizontal-alignment="center"
vertical-alignment="bottom" left-margin="60" right-margin="60"
top-margin="20" bottom-margin="30" subtitle-fps="25"
movie-fps="25" movie-width="720" movie-height="574"/>
</stream>
</subpictures>
And then run spumux:
spumux -s0 subtitle.xml < matrix_dvd.mpg > matrix_dvd_with_subtitles.mpg
Maybe it will work for you using just spumux and then tovid. Good luck!

[oldcpu]

Hi there doom9 ppl, and thank's for one of the best videosites on the web :) My first post, so please be nice ;)

I am trying to author dvds on linux (ubuntu), and i found the lovly script, tovid (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/). This is perfect for me. now, what i'm looking for is a guide that can tell me how to convert my .srt subs into selectable subs on my final dvd. anyone that know of a good script for this job? thanks in advance :)
I have to agree that "tovid" is a pretty good script for taking "avi" files and making (S)VCD/DVD compatible mpegs. I can't help you on the .srt subs, as I am pretty new to this myself.

Some additional URLs for "tovid".
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tovid
Support/development user/developer forum: http://www.createphpbb.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=tovid

[oldcpu]

Hi there doom9 ppl, and thank's for one of the best videosites on the web :) My first post, so please be nice ;)

I am trying to author dvds on linux (ubuntu), and i found the lovly script, tovid (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/). This is perfect for me. now, what i'm looking for is a guide that can tell me how to convert my .srt subs into selectable subs on my final dvd. anyone that know of a good script for this job?
In addition to authoring, another useful thing to do is to test the video structure BEFORE burning. I had a friend (who is an MS-Windows user), point out the benefit of that to me recently. But the same concept applies in Linux, and a program that will do that is "vlc". (I couldn't get "xine" to do the same). By testing the DVD structure in the video_ts directory (on one's harddrive) with the program "vlc" (compiled in linux) one can get higher confidence that the DVD will work, BEFORE one burns the DVD. This is especially true if one has been messing with the menu's, subtitles, or vobs.

vlc-0.8.2-1 [VideoLAN Media Player is a portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.] http://www.videolan.org/