burning DVDs keeping CC information? (USA)

[toomanyhandles]

So- I have a PVR-350, am recording with CC'ing enabled, and if I enable display in the config app I can hae the captions shown on playback through gbpvr.

I'd like to burn some shows as DVDs for my father to watch, but they'd need closed captions available on DVD playback. How to do this? I'm not certain that it is possible.

As an alternative, he has an iBook, is there a way to do the playback with captions from the mpeg?

If there is a way I record the live video containing CCs on the PC (as in, play the video with captions in a gbpvr window, record the gbpvr window with the captions display via _some_windows_utility_ then send him a CD with mpg video containing hard-coded captions) I'm interested in that as a last resort, although it's a lot more time-intensive on my part.

Thanks!

[pastro]

You can use spumux to add subtitles to a MPG from the SRT file. To generate the srt file you need srt2mpg. I tried it and it seemed to work except I put the subtitiles to low so only one line was visible. I'll give it another shot and get back to you.

[pastro]

You can use spumux to add subtitles to a MPG from the SRT file. To generate the srt file you need srt2mpg. I tried it and it seemed to work except I put the subtitiles to low so only one line was visible. I'll give it another shot and get back to you.

It did work fine once I change the position. It is pretty involved though. Are you wanting to burn mpegs or create DVDs?

[toomanyhandles]

It did work fine once I change the position. It is pretty involved though. Are you wanting to burn mpegs or create DVDs?

I was planning to make DVDs as I don't know how well his 800MHz ibook would do playing mpegs full-screen, or if the subtitles would be an appropriate size to be readable at the distance useful for watching a "movie" on the laptop display with bifocals.

If you have time to post some of the details that would be very helpful.

Thank you very much for the help!

[pBS]

try showburner plugin and see if the cc's don't show up, as it only copies the data and adds nav packets, so if cc's were in there, they should still be, on dvd...

now that pvr150 outputs cc data, i'll see if it works for me....
[never could test it before]

[pastro]

try showburner plugin and see if the cc's don't show up, as it only copies the data and adds nav packets, so if cc's were in there, they should still be, on dvd...

now that pvr150 outputs cc data, i'll see if it works for me....
[never could test it before]

I'm guessing they won't be there, but I'm interested to hear your results. I modified the BurnDVD plugin to add captions and had to add them in with spumux, but maybe it will different with showburner. The captions that are in DVD's to my knowledge are a subpicture stream and not straight text.

Also the size of the font for the captions is selectable with spumux.

toomanyhandles, I can post this update to burndvd this week if you think it will help. I was planning on porting this to pvrx2 before I posted it, but that's going to be a little while longer.

[toomanyhandles]

If you have time to post it it would be fun to try it with gbpvr. There isn't a hurry but I could get some archived stuff off my main box when it is all working--

Thanks!

[dfmerry]

Pastro,

since you've gotten spumux to work maybe you can help.

I'm trying to add srt to my mpeg (NTSC, 29,97 fps converted from dvr-ms) using spumux. I think I've got the cmd line protocol worked out since it reports all subtitles added, 0 skipped, but no subs show when I play the mpeg on MCE or Windows Media Player. My ultimate goal is a way to play subtitled mpegs on my wired MediaMVP. Though I don't understand what it all means I've fiddled with different resolutions...I also tried the graphical png route using the sup2png.exe which also reports success but again no subs show on mpeg playback.

Any suggestions to offer?

[pastro]

When I add subtitles with spumux, I create a DVD from this file and then they show up as being available during DVD playback. Tonight when I get home (it's 2:00pm here) I'll get the exact command line I use and post it.
I think you can also use mplayer and vobsub to play back using the srt files without reencoding if you don't want to play back directly from gbpvr.

[pastro]

This is the contents of an example xml file that I use with spumux. The input was piped in from ffmpeg and the output was piped out to dvdauthor

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<subpictures>
<stream>
<textsub filename="C:\MyVideos\Good Eats\Good Eats_20070704_22002230.srt" characterset="ISO8859-1" fontsize="28.0" font="arial.ttf" horizontal-alignment="left" 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="480" force="no" />
</stream>
</subpictures