DevedeNG 4.17 error when trying to create a DVD video with srt subtitle

Terje J. Hanssen

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Feb 13, 2024, 11:59:04 AMFeb 13

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Adding a mpg video file and a srt subtitle file cause an error message already when trying to preview. Tried both ascii and utf-8 charset. The DVD tree structure is partly created with a mpg.tmp file and without any iso created.

Without a srt subtitle file the DVD video is created successfully.

Anybody here that succeed to create a DVD with a srt subtitle file?

Comparing with an old 2015 article I can't see a corresponding field for Extra parameters for mencoder in the current DevedeNG 4.17

https://momentstuff.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/subtitles-with-devede/

Include below a shortened Devede debug data report:

Static data:

FFProbe JSON data: {
"streams": [
{
"index": 0,
"codec_name": "dvd_nav_packet",
"codec_long_name": "DVD Nav packet",
"codec_type": "data",
"codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
"codec_tag": "0x0000",
"id": "0x1bf",
"r_frame_rate": "0/0",
"avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
"time_base": "1/90000",
"start_pts": 14400,
"start_time": "0.160000",
"duration_ts": 10189440,
"duration": "113.216000",
"disposition": {
"default": 0,
"dub": 0,
"original": 0,
"comment": 0,
"lyrics": 0,
"karaoke": 0,
"forced": 0,
"hearing_impaired": 0,
"visual_impaired": 0,
"clean_effects": 0,
"attached_pic": 0,
"timed_thumbnails": 0,
"non_diegetic": 0,
"captions": 0,
"descriptions": 0,
"metadata": 0,
"dependent": 0,
"still_image": 0
}
},
{
"index": 1,
"codec_name": "mpeg2video",
"codec_long_name": "MPEG-2 video",
"profile": "Main",
"codec_type": "video",
"codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
"codec_tag": "0x0000",
"width": 720,
"height": 576,
"coded_width": 0,
"coded_height": 0,
"closed_captions": 0,
"film_grain": 0,
"has_b_frames": 1,
"sample_aspect_ratio": "16:15",
"display_aspect_ratio": "4:3",
"pix_fmt": "yuv420p",
"level": 8,
"color_range": "tv",
"color_space": "bt709",
"chroma_location": "left",
"field_order": "progressive",
"refs": 1,
"id": "0x1e0",
"r_frame_rate": "25/1",
"avg_frame_rate": "25/1",
"time_base": "1/90000",
"start_pts": 14400,
"start_time": "0.160000",
"duration_ts": 10141200,
"duration": "112.680000",
"extradata_size": 34,
"disposition": {
"default": 0,
"dub": 0,
"original": 0,
"comment": 0,
"lyrics": 0,
"karaoke": 0,
"forced": 0,
"hearing_impaired": 0,
"visual_impaired": 0,
"clean_effects": 0,
"attached_pic": 0,
"timed_thumbnails": 0,
"non_diegetic": 0,
"captions": 0,
"descriptions": 0,
"metadata": 0,
"dependent": 0,
"still_image": 0
},
"side_data_list": [
{
"side_data_type": "CPB properties",
"max_bitrate": 9000000,
"min_bitrate": 0,
"avg_bitrate": 0,
"buffer_size": 1835008,
"vbv_delay": -1
}
]
},
{
"index": 2,
"codec_name": "ac3",
"codec_long_name": "ATSC A/52A (AC-3)",
"codec_type": "audio",
"codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
"codec_tag": "0x0000",
"sample_fmt": "fltp",
"sample_rate": "48000",
"channels": 2,
"channel_layout": "stereo",
"bits_per_sample": 0,
"initial_padding": 0,
"id": "0x80",
"r_frame_rate": "0/0",
"avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
"time_base": "1/90000",
"start_pts": 14400,
"start_time": "0.160000",
"duration_ts": 10189440,
"duration": "113.216000",
"bit_rate": "224000",
"disposition": {
"default": 0,
"dub": 0,
"original": 0,
"comment": 0,
"lyrics": 0,
"karaoke": 0,
"forced": 0,
"hearing_impaired": 0,
"visual_impaired": 0,
"clean_effects": 0,
"attached_pic": 0,
"timed_thumbnails": 0,
"non_diegetic": 0,
"captions": 0,
"descriptions": 0,
"metadata": 0,
"dependent": 0,
"still_image": 0
}
}
]
}

Getting data for /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/dvd.mpg with ffprobe
Estimated length: 113; Resolution: 720x576

Dynamic data:

Creating menu 0

Launching: ffmpeg -loop 1 -f image2 -i /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/DVD/menu/menu_0_bg.png -i /usr/share/devedeng/silence.ogg -y -target pal-dvd -acodec mp2 -s 720x576 -g 12 -b:v 2500k -b:a 224k -aspect 4:3 -t 31 /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/DVD/menu/menu_0.mpg

Copying file dvd.mpg

Launching: copy_files_verbose.py /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/dvd.mpg /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/DVD/movies/movie_0.mpg

Copied 0.1%
Copied 0.1%
Copied 0.2%
Copied 0.2%

.....snip....

Copied 99.8%
Copied 99.9%
Copied 100.0%
Copied 100.0%

Adding AA subtitles to movie_0.mpg

Launching: spumux -m dvd -s 0 /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/DVD/movies/movie_0.mpg_s0.xml

Sergio Costas

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Feb 13, 2024, 5:52:27 PMFeb 13

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Can you try to manually execute that last command?

spumux -m dvd -s 0 /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/DVD/movies/movie_0.mpg_s0.xml

and put here the output?

El 13/2/24 a las 17:59, Terje J. Hanssen escribió:

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Terje J. Hanssen

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Feb 13, 2024, 6:25:26 PMFeb 13

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I had deleted the DVD structure, but hope I have recreated it indentical again.

Here is the command output:

spumux -m dvd -s 0 /home/terje/Videoklipp/video/DVD/movies/movie_0.mpg_s0.xml

DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.7.2.
Build options: gnugetopt imagemagick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bug reports to <dvdauth...@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: no default video format, must explicitly specify NTSC or PAL
INFO: Opened iconv descriptor. *UTF-8* <= *ASCII*
INFO: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer
INFO: Read 6 subtitles
ERR: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
ERR: Please supply the text font file (arial).

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Terje J. Hanssen

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Feb 13, 2024, 6:34:29 PMFeb 13

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Checked the character set of my srt subtitle file created with gedit on openSUSE Leap 15.5::

    file -bi dvd.srt
    text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Looks like I am not able to change the charset to utf-8

    iconv -f ascii -t utf-8 -o dvd_utf-8.srt dvd.srt

    file -bi dvd_utf-8.srt
    text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Terje J. Hanssen

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Feb 14, 2024, 10:32:07 AMFeb 14

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I also tested a plain DV clip (instead of mpg), added the srt softsub file and got the the same DevedeNG error.
The minor difference was that the spumux command output above was included in the Devede Debug file this time.

Den 14.02.2024 00:25, skrev Terje J. Hanssen:

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