How do I burn a 1-Disc VCD from a DivX with Subtitles on MacOSX?

FYI, the VCD format is at a fixed bitrate (which happens to be the same bitrate as CD audio). A VCD will hold a maximum of 74 or 80 minutes per disc, so most movies have to be split between two discs. You could reduce the bitrate, but then it wouldn't be a standard VCD. Also, it will probably look like crap (even a good-quality VCD is only marginally better than VHS).

VCD must be 1150k/s MPEG-1 @ 352x240 (nonsquare px) with the audio @ MPEG 1, Layer II 44k stereo 224kbs. Divx will not work. What might work: Divx with the SRT using a DVD player like the phillips 642. Option 2: This google search yields methods of putting subtitles on a VCD http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=adding+subtitles+to+a+VCD&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Also, check out http://videohelp.com

I checked out the http://homepage.mac.com/major4/divx_svcd.html and it lists a method to convert DivX/AVI files with SRT subtitles into a (S)VCD format. Have you tried this? If the file is too big to fit on a single CD, why not burn it as a http://homepage.mac.com/major4/dvd_sub.html instead? http://www.videohelp.com/ is the source of all my Mac OSX (S)VCD/DVD burning information. If you're looking for a multiple-format DVD capable player, I recommend the Phillips DivX DVD player (http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/catalog/catalog.jsp?fhquery=fh_secondid%3Ddvp642_37_us_consumer%26fh_location%3D%2F%2Fconsumer%2Fen_US%2Fcategories%3Ccatalog_us_consumer%2Fcategories%3Chome_audio_video_gr_us_consumer%2Fcategories%3Cdvd_players_recorders_ca_us_consumer%2Fcategories%3Cdvd_players_su_us_consumer%26&productId=DVP642_37_US_CONSUMER&activeCategory=HOME_AUDIO_VIDEO_GR_US_CONSUMER&fredhopperpage=detail.jsp&activeTab=specifications&language=en&country=US&catalogType=CONSUMER&proxybuster=FBRMI4I4DCHKFJ0RMRESHP3HKFSEKI5P) it costs only $58 plus tax at your local WalMart.

FYI, the VCD format is at a fixed bitrate (which happens to be the same bitrate as CD audio). A VCD will hold a maximum of 74 or 80 minutes per disc, so most movies have to be split between two discs. True, but the good Reverend gave us the specs for this particular file, and it's under 700 megs - fine to fit on a standard CD, no?

when you converted to divx/xvid, did you use mencoder? usually if mplayer will display the subs then mencoder can render them while transcoding the file. what arguments did you use, if you did use mencoder?

I actually do have the Philips 642, which is totally a great player! To be honest, my main reason for wanting it to be a VCD is that I wanted to make copies of it to turn on other folks to the film (in my fantasy, it's basically "Well, if everyone finds out about this film and likes it, perhaps they'll write to DVD houses and let them know people want it and then we can all get legit copies!", not that it'll actually probably work out that way..8) -- that's why I was hoping for a VCD, just because, well, blank DVDs are a little expensive/take forever to burn, and even though I can play DivX on my DVD player, I'm not sure if _everybody_ can. And, yeah -- as item notes out, my brain is going "Well, hey, I can fit this here file on a CD! So THEREFORE I should OBVIOUSLY be able to put this wholly different format on a CD too!" Also -- for the record, because I was really curious, I had a CD I burned of the raw AVI + Subtitle file and threw it in my Philips 642, and it played the movie, but wouldn't do squat with the SRT file (which is what I kind of expected, but I would have been floored had it played them, and probably would have had to marry this thing).

I used mencoder; when you download ffmpegX, it makes you download mpeg2enc, mencoder and mplayer; no idea on what the arguments was, as ffmpegX takes care of all of that for you; I plunked in the Subtitle File and the source AVI file just like the walkthrough said, and it'd basically be having nothing of it. Which is weird, since mplayer was a-OK with the subs.

So what's the movie? I'd love to see a rare-but-great Japanese movie that few people have seen.

It's Funeral Parade of Roses/Bara no soretsu. After hearing me recommend it, a friend of mine found 3 Matsumoto films on eDonkey/eMule/whatever it is, and set me the links. Unfortunately, 2 but are the same setup -- DivX Avis with separate subtitles, all split across their CD-File-Sizes. FPoR is the only one that actually fits on 1 CD; the others are all 2 CD jobs. (Also, they haven't come in yet, so. And the other one has burned-in subs, which is aces in my book.) So, truth be told my ideal answer is "Oh, didn't you hear, Critierion's putting these out in January!", but I'm not sure how likely that is, so, in the meantime...