DVB-T files and subtitles on a DVD

[hiddenfeldt]

I am desparately looking for a DVD authoring program, that can burn a DVD with menus and the subtitles I receive from TV.
I live in Denmark, where DVB-T was introduced for about a year ago. This means that subtitles is a part of the digital stream and is nok optically ¡¨borned¡¨ into the movie.
My hardware is a Intel E6600 cpu computer and a Hauppauge HVR-1300 or HVR-4000. The grabber-SW is this very nice program: http://www.dvbwiever.com . It can output .mpg files as well as .ts files, the latter is nessesary to preserve til subtitles in the videostream. By subtitles I mean text-translations of the dialog in the movie or broadcast. In Denmark and the other Nordic countries we use subtitles for foreign language films and broadcasts. In Germany e.g. speakers or actors reads the translated dialog thus missing the original actors voice (a bad solution I think).

Ulead MovieFactory 6.0 kan do something with subtitles, but apparently not what I need. I don¡¦t know how to create a .srt file from a .ts file.

As a temporary solution I do the following:
The .ts file is inputted to ProjectX, that demuxes the file in a .m2v (video), a .mp2 (audio), a .sup ¡Vfile (containing the subtitles) and an .IFO file (has something to do with the colors of the subtitles).
Now I use ReJig to produce video folders, that can be burned directly to a DVD.

This gives me just one title per DVD, so I hoped MovieFactory 6.0 could help me, if I importet each title from its own set of DVD-folder files. But alas, MovieFactory 6.0 removes my precious subtitles during this operation . I am told TMPGenc DVD Author 3.0 can do the job, so do I really have to buy this program???

As you can see, this is rather difficult and inconvenient. How wonderfull it would be, if Ulead MovieFactory (maybe 7.0?) could take the .ts file directly and create a DVD with both menues and subtitles.

Any suggestions, what else I can do?

[joegib]

It's not clear from your posting what you want to do with the subtitles. Do you simply want to author a DVD including a menu/chapters from a foreign film (with subtitles) captured by your DVB-T device? If so, this is fairly straightforward. My procedure is:

1. Convert the captured .TS file to an MPEG file using "HDTV2MPEG2" available here:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~balazer/ ... index.html

(The subtitles remain embedded in the MPEG)

2. Load the MPEG in the "Add Media" screen in MF.

3. Edit/author your DVD, adding a menu/chapters, in the ordinary way.

The subtitles transmitted should appear correctly.

Or do you want to do something more complicated?

Note --I use MF5 but I doubt that MF6 is much different. I should add that in the UK some stations transmit at peculiar resolutions or GOP sizes so matters can be more complicated. If your Danish stations transmit DVD compliant MPEG streams you should be OK.

[hiddenfeldt]

Yes. I just want to author 2-3 foreign films with subtitles on a DVD with a menu to select which film to be seen.

I have tried "HDTV2MPEG2", but with no result. I even had to check the second channel "NOMAME 0.2" to get audio on the DVD. In another example there was no extra checkbox and consequently the mpg-output was without audio. Then the VLC player could show nothing but a black screen, but well, MF6.0 could show and burn the file, but without subtitles.

I have placed a short clip here: http://dmy.dk/short.ts if you should like to experiment. If you play it with VLC (VideoLAN) remenber to switch subtitles on in the video-menu.

It would be interesting if you can get a positive result out of it.

[joegib]

Well, I downloaded and played your sample .TS file in various software players/editors and had the same results as you -- no subtitles! Various subtitle utilities showed that they are certainly present but I had no success in activating them via a simple file conversion. I'm intrigued by this so I'll look into it further.

I see you successfully created a DVD file set displaying subtitles using ProjectX and Rejig. Can I suggest you "rip" the VOB files from a suitable DVD file set using the utility VOB2MPEG obtainable via this site:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOB2MPG

This will combine the VOBs into a single MPEG file that you can load into MF6. However, given you experience with "importing" your VOBs into MF6 this may not be successful but it's worth a try.

[hiddenfeldt]

I tried the VOB2MPG and it gave me a mpg file with no subtitles.