SoundScape
9th January 2005, 02:01
Hi everybody,
I used DVD Shrink to compress the movie "X-Files-Fight The Future" and I kept the original menus and extras. The DVD contains 4 audio tracks: English, French, Italian and English-Director's Comments. Also, it contains 5 subtitles: Nederlands, English, French, Greek and Italian. In DVD Shrink I removed some all audio tracks except English and English-Director's Comments. As for the subs, I only kept English and Greek. After the transcoding process, I used IFOEdit to fix my IFO files so that they reflect the changes made by DVD Shrink. Since I kept the original menus, I had to keep each audio track and subs to their original position. For example, since original English and Greek subs were at positions 2 and 4, I used IFIEdit to bring them back to these positions cause they were shifted during the trancoding process. Now, in order to avoid wasting time by writing the contents of the original and edited IFO files here, you can follow this link (http://www.filesanywhere.com/) and download them so that you can tell me what went wrong with the edited one. Use as username "SoundScape" and password "temppass", without the quotes of course :D
The problem is this: When I open the trancoded DVD in PowerDVD, under "Audio" menu I see two tracks: English, Audio 2, Audio 3 and English-Director's Comments. Audio 2 & 3 are greyed out, i.e. they can't be selected. As for the subs, under "Subtitles" menu, there are 2 subs: English and Greek. First problem: Under the "Subtitles" menu, the option "Display Subtitles" is marked but is greyed out. It can't be toggled, i.e. subs can't be turned on and off. Second problem: When DVD is played on a standalone DVD player, audio switching is done normally but subtitles do not activate at all during movie playback. Neither English nor Greek. But if you select them trough the menu, they display normaly. I suspect that the problem lies in the fact that PowerDVD "Subtitle" menu has the "Display subtitles" option greyed out. Somehow, the subs look "locked".
If anyone has any clue about the above, please let me know. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! Take care ;)
I used DVD Shrink to compress the movie "X-Files-Fight The Future" and I kept the original menus and extras. The DVD contains 4 audio tracks: English, French, Italian and English-Director's Comments. Also, it contains 5 subtitles: Nederlands, English, French, Greek and Italian. In DVD Shrink I removed some all audio tracks except English and English-Director's Comments. As for the subs, I only kept English and Greek. After the transcoding process, I used IFOEdit to fix my IFO files so that they reflect the changes made by DVD Shrink. Since I kept the original menus, I had to keep each audio track and subs to their original position. For example, since original English and Greek subs were at positions 2 and 4, I used IFIEdit to bring them back to these positions cause they were shifted during the trancoding process. Now, in order to avoid wasting time by writing the contents of the original and edited IFO files here, you can follow this link (http://www.filesanywhere.com/) and download them so that you can tell me what went wrong with the edited one. Use as username "SoundScape" and password "temppass", without the quotes of course :D
The problem is this: When I open the trancoded DVD in PowerDVD, under "Audio" menu I see two tracks: English, Audio 2, Audio 3 and English-Director's Comments. Audio 2 & 3 are greyed out, i.e. they can't be selected. As for the subs, under "Subtitles" menu, there are 2 subs: English and Greek. First problem: Under the "Subtitles" menu, the option "Display Subtitles" is marked but is greyed out. It can't be toggled, i.e. subs can't be turned on and off. Second problem: When DVD is played on a standalone DVD player, audio switching is done normally but subtitles do not activate at all during movie playback. Neither English nor Greek. But if you select them trough the menu, they display normaly. I suspect that the problem lies in the fact that PowerDVD "Subtitle" menu has the "Display subtitles" option greyed out. Somehow, the subs look "locked".
If anyone has any clue about the above, please let me know. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! Take care ;)