Problem with I-Author

[wschindel]

I'm trying to create a SVCD CD-R, with 2 audio streams and 2 subtitles. I ripped the DVD with Smartripper, extracted the AC3 audio with DVD2AVI, rendered the MPEG with TMPGEnc, converted the audio to MP2 with Headac3he. All steps are ok. But when I tryed to mux them with I-Author, the following occured:
A warning box telling me that the max bitrate is 2824000, will not be acceptable. I hit OK.
The muxing begun, scanning the video frame, than the Audio #1 and finnaly the Audio #2.
After that the program suddenly stoped saying that a illegal operation was executed (Mux caused a division error in the MUX.EXE module in 017f:00405483).
Can someone help me with this problem?
:(

[smiller667]

The muxer is pretty strict with the max. bitrate, also it has a fixed mux rate (no "auto" setting like in bbmpeg). What total bitrate did you throw at it? Sometimes it just doesn't exit gracefully if it is way over the limit.
As a workaround, try lowering the total bitrate, e.g. by reducing your audio bitrate. Also, for calculating the total, you should probably take the subs into account (~50kbps each).
For higher bitrates, I would recommend bbmpeg + winsubmux ... if you want to do the authoring in I-Author, there is a tool called mpgxmps to convert muxed streams to the .mps required.

[adam]

Unfortunately mpgxmps does not support subbed mpg program streams, at least not ones made with either SubMux or WinSubMux.

So if you want subs and the ability to author in I-Author your stuck with its multiplexor. Hopefully Gandalf will update mpgxmps but he didn't respond to my e-mails so I'm not sure if he's still developing it or not.

[wschindel]

Thank you guys. I just solved my problem re-encoding my mpeg with a lower bitrate and it works fine.

[smiller667]

@adam: thanks for the information regarding mpgxmps & subbed streams.

[rumba]

Hi,
I am new in this business...
I also got the same problem with I-Author it just crashes...
Can you please tell me what (and :o how :o ) to set the bitrate tab in DVD2SVCD so it will not crash..

Thanx

[htc10825]

read this:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36993