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Audio Stream Options


Click the + beside Audio (2 steams). Obviously the number of streams will change depending on the number of audio streams in the file. You can now change the language of the audio. Firstly though, to make sure you are setting the correct language, right click on any of the audio streams and click Play Audio. To stop the audio playing, right click again and click Stop Audio.

Why would you want to set the language? The best reason to set what language the stream is, is to ensure that your DVD player can select your Default Language and that when you change audio, your DVD player will show you what language you have changed to, instead labeling them all unspecified or something else. To set the language, right click the stream and a drop down box appear. Click it and select whatever language the audio is. After you select it, click anywhere else on the list to close the box.

The last thing I would recommend you do is set your default language settings. To do this, simply right click on an audio track and click Audio Options. This is just one of those settings that help make life a little easier later on.


Adding Subtitles


ConvertXtoDVD supports adding multiple .srt subtitle files. It's very easy to add subtitle streams, simply right click on Subtitles (0 streams) and click Add Subtitle Channel. A file browser window will now appear which you can use to locate your subs.

If you like to have default subtitle streams then you can set that too by right clicking on Subtitles and clicking Subtitles Options. You can set your default language with a drop-down box. Also you will notice you can set the font settings for the subs also.


Adding and Editing Chapters


Just as I said earlier, you can manually set chapters with ConvertXtoDVD or you can allow the program to select chapters automatically at a certain amount of time between each of them. Click the + beside Chapters and you will see a list of all automatically selected chapters. As you can see, if you right click on a chapter, you can delete it. Let's see first how chapters are automatically picked.

Before looking at manually adding chapters, click Chapters Options. This will allow us to set some delays between chapters and the minimum length a video has to be before the automatic selection is made. If Insert Chapter Every is selected, then the given amount of minutes and seconds will be the delay between each chapter right from the beginning of the video (00:00).

For videos longer than can be selected to set a minimum length a video has to be before the automatic selection comes into affect. For example it would be pointless having an 8 minute video with one chapter at 05:00. This comes in particularly handy when you have multiple videos in your list. So last but not least, how to add a chapter manually?

Right click on Chapters and click Add Chapter. This simple little window appears allowing you to se a chapter at any hour, minute and second in your video file. A good idea on how to add good chapters is to use the Video Preview window to drag the slider to pats where scenes change. Then you can add a chapter at the position the Video Preview window tells you that you are at.


Menu Settings


As mentioned earlier, ConvertXtoDVD will automatically create a menu for you. Click the + beside Menu and the options will expand out. Title will let you edit your DVD Title, just simply double click it and enter what you want. Background will allow you to select an image file that will take up the DVD menu background, double click it and you will see the images already provided by VSO.

Auto start playback, loop playback and sequential playback are three items you can keep ticked or not depending on how you will want your DVD to play (in certain times like when its inserted first, or when a title has finished etc.). There are also some font settings for the Title of the movie and the other items.

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Created: 14 February 2006 Last updated: 15 October 2007

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