ZenLord
20th December 2004, 00:15
Well,
First off: I'm not an advanced video-editor, and this was my first project where I would include subtitles in a DVD...
I looked through the guides and decided to give IfoEdit a go after:
1. having stripped the VBR .mp3-audio from the source-file with Nandub;
2. having encoded the XVID .avi to an .m2v with TMPEGenc;
3. using BeSweet I transcoded the .mp3 to both .mp2 and .ac3.
Everything went like a charm, but viewing the result with WinDVD after IfoEdit (both 0.96 and 0.971) was always without sound. I got no fatal errors in the log-file, but I did receive a warning that it had encountered buffer-underruns.
So I tried to view all the elements with MPC, and the audio-files were perfectly OK!!
I started doubting IfoEdit and looked through some more guides and the forum... Results (with the same files):
1. Muxman 0.5 just quits when I hit the 'start'-button (several tries), and wouldn't accept my .mp2-file, so that I had to make an .ac3-file;
2. DVDmaestro displayed the wrong length of video/audio, so that the subtitles didn't fit anymore - I never tried authoring with this package, because it just seemed wrong and I didn't have that much time to fiddle around...
3. DVD-Lab Pro: same as IfoEdit: video and both subtitles are perfect, but no audio when viewed in WinDVD or in a standalone DVD-player. When played in MPC, I get audio but no subtitle-menu (first subtitles are shown and cannot be turned off).
I'm thinking there's something wrong with the source? Or is there something I'm doing wrong? I have followed the guides and searched through the forum, but I didn't find an answer to my problem...
Zl.
First off: I'm not an advanced video-editor, and this was my first project where I would include subtitles in a DVD...
I looked through the guides and decided to give IfoEdit a go after:
1. having stripped the VBR .mp3-audio from the source-file with Nandub;
2. having encoded the XVID .avi to an .m2v with TMPEGenc;
3. using BeSweet I transcoded the .mp3 to both .mp2 and .ac3.
Everything went like a charm, but viewing the result with WinDVD after IfoEdit (both 0.96 and 0.971) was always without sound. I got no fatal errors in the log-file, but I did receive a warning that it had encountered buffer-underruns.
So I tried to view all the elements with MPC, and the audio-files were perfectly OK!!
I started doubting IfoEdit and looked through some more guides and the forum... Results (with the same files):
1. Muxman 0.5 just quits when I hit the 'start'-button (several tries), and wouldn't accept my .mp2-file, so that I had to make an .ac3-file;
2. DVDmaestro displayed the wrong length of video/audio, so that the subtitles didn't fit anymore - I never tried authoring with this package, because it just seemed wrong and I didn't have that much time to fiddle around...
3. DVD-Lab Pro: same as IfoEdit: video and both subtitles are perfect, but no audio when viewed in WinDVD or in a standalone DVD-player. When played in MPC, I get audio but no subtitle-menu (first subtitles are shown and cannot be turned off).
I'm thinking there's something wrong with the source? Or is there something I'm doing wrong? I have followed the guides and searched through the forum, but I didn't find an answer to my problem...
Zl.