Encoding the AVI with SRT will cause the quality to decreased (since adding filter will force you to start from scratch & later you convert again into MPEG for VCD compliant).

Instead, frameserving it using VDub/VDubMod into TMPGenc. So, you'll doing one job instead of two (adding subtitle & convert into VCD compliant).

I learn how to frameserving using VDubMod from here and here.

Using that guide, I create a VCD with hardsub (subtitle will be displayed all time). Software you need is VobSub, VDudMod (I have VDub but I familiar with VDubMod) & TMPGEnc. I assume you already intall the handler, have codecs & TextSub installed in the VDubMod plugin.

• Load the AVI into VDubMod
• Adding the subtitle *.srt using filter
• Demux the audio as *.wav, Go to Steams > Stream List > Save WAV (choose your location). Then, disable the audio stream by click Disable (I'll explain later why).
• Click File > Start frame server. A pop-up appear. Click Start. You need to give a filename here. Remember to include *.avi as extension so it should be like this "sample.avi" (Even it has *.vdr). Keep that frameserving box all the time !
• Launch TMPGEnc. Load that "dummy" AVI. Check the stream type. You'll see it will be in ES (video only). Load the *.WAV that we demux before. Now it turn to System (video+audio).
• Still under Stream Type click Load and load the VCD setting (PAL or NTSC).
• Click start to begin the conversion

I demux the audio into WAV to eliminate 2 problems which I encounter :

1. Audio/video is out of sync
2. The final MPG have "hiccup" voice - not smooth during playback.

I just create this guide & screenshot special for you :



This post has been edited by keyz: Dec 11 2006, 11:57 PM

Error response :

1. Click NO
2. You don't have XviD codec installed either from codec pack or stand alone intallation. Maybe you only have ffdshow
3. Not exactly sure. Either not having XviD is culprit or something else. Try installing XviD & import the video again to confirm this error.