[vdr] DVB subtitles & DVD authoring

["Mika Lehtinen" <haahuu@luukku.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out ways to make DVD creation from VDR material with
DVB subtiteles (recorded by the dvb subtitles plugin) easier. At the moment
I'm using the following process:

1) Demux 001.vdr file with Project X to get
    001.m2v
    001.mpa
    001.sup
    001.sup.IFO

2) Author mux and author a DVD _with_subtitles_ in (.sup) using IfoEdit

3) Fix subpicture patette in the authored material with IfoEdit (copy
palette from 001.sup.IFO)

4) Burn the authored material


Now the main problem in this process is, that it requires a lot of "manual
labor" and time for a very straightforwad and mechanical process. I would
really want to script / automate the process and would not like to use any
windows GUI apps at all.

To my inderstanding Project X can be used as a command line app, so that is
ok, but I have not been able to solve how to mux the .sup subtitles with any
other tool than IfoEdit. Dvdauthor / spumux does not seem to support .sup
subtitles.

Is anyone aware of a cli toot that would run in linux and could handle the
.sup muxing / authoring. An alternative solution could be to convert the
.sup subtitles into .png files and a spumux xml configuration file, but at
least I have not been able to find such a tool either. Any suggestions?


Mika Lehtinen