Notebook: batch m4a to flac conversion using find/xargs/ffmpeg
If you have a large collection of files in a certain format and need to convert it to another, it can be quite tricky to do so and retain every tag information and all (i didn't find any tool that would allow me to do that, even the excellent xACT doesn't)
So ...
you will need to have ffmpeg installed. I just used sudo port install ffmpeg on my mac.
First you need to write a little shell script. I've called it toflac.sh. This script will perform the conversion :
#!/bin/sh
ffmpeg -i "$1" -f flac "${1%.m4a}.flac"
(change the extensions appropriately to fit your needs)
then call it using the following command line:
find . -name *.m4a -print0 | xargs -0 -P 4 -n 1 ./toflac.sh
this runs 4 parallel ffmpeg processes to convert your files. Quite handy.
Notebook: MacBook – Battery calibation
A few weeks ago, my apr'09 13" MacBook started behaving strangely. After a few minutes off the power cord, it would simply shutdown without warning (no display of the low battery warning message ... blam ! Black screen of death). The led battery indicators would show the battery to be at 80%, and if you started the laptop again, it would work for 5-10 minutes ... then blam !
I've looked for solutions to this issue for a while, this behaviour didn't match apple's documents about battery calibration / PMU reset in their knowledge base, i've tried following every steps documented there (links provided below) to no avail.
resetting the SMC
resetting the PRAM and NVRAM
I finally managed to get back to a properly running mac after following those instructions (Battery calibration) to the letter.
When the system would shutdown improperly, i would just start it up again until next time, and did this for 2 hours (about 6 or 7 power off / power on cycles) until the battery was completely depleted.
Then, i performed a full charge, allowing the system to rest for a few hours while on battery, powered it on, removed the battery adapter with my fingers crossed ... and ... I got my macbook back ! 
Woooot
scripting with chef
Chef is a very cool platform management solution. Once it is setup, you have a very clean solution to distribute server configurations across as many servers as you need, very cleanly (Ruby DSL) and quickly. A must on AWS.
One thing that you can't find easily in Chef's documentation is how to use the chef API to write scripts that would use the information chef is storing.
Imagine having a script that would run regularly (cron) and update your internal DNS zone with A records for each server it can find in your chef database.
I'm not sure I used the "right" approach. I just pasted some code i borrowed from knife (chef's command-line tool) and added it to my own script. I intend to find a cleaner approach later (mixins, inheritance, etc ...)
#!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'rubygems' require 'chef/application' require 'chef/client' require 'mixlib/cli' class Client < Chef::Application include Mixlib::CLI banner "Usage: #{$0} (options)" option :config_file, :short => "-c CONFIG", :long => "--config CONFIG", :description => "The configuration file to use" option :log_level, :short => "-l LEVEL", :long => "--log_level LEVEL", :description => "Set the log level (debug, info, warn, error, fatal)", :proc => lambda { |l| l.to_sym } option :log_location, :short => "-L LOGLOCATION", :long => "--logfile LOGLOCATION", :description => "Set the log file location, defaults to STDOUT", :proc => nil option :editor, :short => "-e EDITOR", :long => "--editor EDITOR", :description => "Set the editor to use for interactive commands", :default => ENV['EDITOR'] option :no_editor, :short => "-n", :long => "--no-editor", :description => "Do not open EDITOR, just accept the data as is", :boolean => true option :help, :short => "-h", :long => "--help", :description => "Show this message", :on => :tail, :boolean => true option :node_name, :short => "-u USER", :long => "--user USER", :description => "API Client Username" option :client_key, :short => "-k KEY", :long => "--key KEY", :description => "API Client Key" option :chef_server_url, :short => "-s URL", :long => "--server-url URL", :description => "Chef Server URL" option :yes, :short => "-y", :long => "--yes", :description => "Say yes to all prompts for confirmation" option :defaults, :long => "--defaults", :description => "Accept default values for all questions" option :print_after, :short => "-p", :long => "--print-after", :description => "Show the data after a destructive operation" option :format, :short => "-F FORMAT", :long => "--format FORMAT", :description => "Which format to use for output", :default => "json" option :version, :short => "-v", :long => "--version", :description => "Show chef version", :boolean => true, :proc => lambda {|v| puts "Chef: #{::Chef::VERSION}"}, :exit => 0 def configure_chef unless config[:config_file] full_path = Dir.pwd.split(File::SEPARATOR) (full_path.length - 1).downto(0) do |i| config_file_to_check = File.join([ full_path[0..i], ".chef", "client.rb" ].flatten) if File.exists?(config_file_to_check) config[:config_file] = config_file_to_check break end end # If we haven't set a config yet and $HOME is set, and the home # knife.rb exists, use it: if (!config[:config_file]) && ENV['HOME'] && File.exist?(File.join(ENV['HOME'], '.chef', 'client.rb')) config[:config_file] = File.join(ENV['HOME'], '.chef', 'client.rb') end end # Don't try to load a knife.rb if it doesn't exist. if config[:config_file] Chef::Config.from_file(config[:config_file]) else # ...but do log a message if no config was found. self.msg("No knife configuration file found") end Chef::Config[:log_level] = config[:log_level] if config[:log_level] Chef::Config[:log_location] = config[:log_location] if config[:log_location] Chef::Config[:node_name] = config[:node_name] if config[:node_name] Chef::Config[:client_key] = config[:client_key] if config[:client_key] Chef::Config[:chef_server_url] = config[:chef_server_url] if config[:chef_server_url] Mixlib::Log::Formatter.show_time = false Chef::Log.init(Chef::Config[:log_location]) Chef::Log.level(Chef::Config[:log_level]) Chef::Log.debug("Using configuration from #{config[:config_file]}") if Chef::Config[:node_name].nil? raise ArgumentError, "No user specified, pass via -u or specifiy 'node_name' in #{config[:config_file] ? config[:config_file] : "~/.chef/knife.rb"}" end end def parse_options(args=[]) super config end def run(args) parse_options(args) configure_chef Chef::Search::Query.new.search(:node,"*:*") do |n| ## iterate on every node. You have access to every information ## chef and ohai could collect from the nodes end end end Client.new.run
The command line options for your script are the same as knife's. And it works flawlessly.
notebook: running a unix command for a given amount of time
Sometimes, you need to run a command (capture, etc ...) for a given amount of time. Here's an example of a script capturing mysql traffic for half an hour :
#!/bin/sh DATE=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` tcpdump -i eth0 port 3306 -s 65535 -x -n -q -tttt > capture-$DATE.out & sleep 1800 kill $!
notebook: nagios / ndo2db on centOS 5.5 64 bits
Trying to setup nagios 3.1 with ndo2db on a 64bits platform, ndo2bd may not work properly and crash over and over.
The symptoms are:
[1286679019] ndomod: Still unable to connect to data sink. 7575 items lost, 5000 queued items to flush.
in the nagios log file
and /var/log/messages containing reports of ndo2db segfaults ...
Oct 10 12:52:26 ip-10-112-41-174 kernel: ndo2db[15666]: segfault at 00007fff8701cff8 rip 00002aaaabf2d211 rsp 00007fff8701d000 error 6
Apparently, this comes from ndo2db being improperly linked to a 32bits version of the mysql client lib.
You need to configure ndo2db like this :
./configure --prefix=/opt/nagios --enable-mysql --disable-pgsql --with-ndo2db-user=nagios --with-ndo2db-group=nagios --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql
then you can go on and install ndo2db as documented, nagios will happily log events into you supervision database
Some fun with groovy and AWS Identity And Access Management
I'm currently playing with the all new AWS identity and access management, and wanted to share some groovy magic to play with users and groups ...
@Grapes([ @Grab(group='com.amazonaws', module='aws-java-sdk', version='1.0.11') ]) import com.amazonaws.auth.BasicAWSCredentials import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.AmazonIdentityManagementClient import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.* AWS_ACCESS_KEY='MY AWESOME KEY' AWS_SECRET_KEY='MY EVEN MORE AWESOME KEY' def cred = new BasicAWSCredentials(AWS_ACCESS_KEY,AWS_SECRET_KEY) def ami = new AmazonIdentityManagementClient(cred) println "Group 'Administrators' ?" def admins = null try { admins = ami.getGroup(new GetGroupRequest().withGroupName('Administrators'))?.group } catch (NoSuchEntityException e) { println "Didn't find group 'Administrators' : creating it ..." admins = ami.createGroup(new CreateGroupRequest().withGroupName('Administrators')).group } println admins println "User 'erwan' ?" def erwan = null try { erwan = ami.getUser(new GetUserRequest().withUserName('erwan'))?.user } catch (NoSuchEntityException e) { println "Didn't find user 'erwan' : creating it ..." erwan = ami.createUser(new CreateUserRequest().withUserName('erwan')).user } println erwan if (erwan) { println "Listing erwan's groups ..." java.util.List groups = ami.listGroupsForUser(new ListGroupsForUserRequest().withUserName(erwan.userName)).getGroups().collect { it.groupName } println groups if (!groups.contains('Administrators')) { println "Adding user 'erwan' to 'Administrators'" ami.addUserToGroup (new AddUserToGroupRequest().withUserName(erwan.userName).withGroupName(admins.groupName)) } println "done !" }
Even with some groove in it, java is still way too verbose to my taste, but i guess, i'll have to live with it ...
And this is the output of the awesome script:
Group 'Administrators' ?
4 oct. 2010 19:05:50 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient execute
INFO: Sending Request: POST https://iam.amazonaws.com / Parameters: (Action: GetGroup, GroupName: Administrators, SignatureMethod: HmacSHA256, AWSAccessKeyId: MY AWESOME KEY, Version: 2010-05-08, SignatureVersion: 2, Timestamp: 2010-10-04T17:05:50.839Z, Signature: 3V3lEJzcqXXXXXXXXXXXXBeyMx9DzwFXA=, )
4 oct. 2010 19:05:51 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient handleResponse
INFO: Received successful response: 200, AWS Request ID: a40b6fd5-cfd9-11df-8b03-8bc9f2ff0492
{Path: /, GroupName: Administrators, GroupId: AGPAJZSRVEMSLHZEOKMI6, Arn: arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXXX:group/Administrators, }
User 'erwan' ?
4 oct. 2010 19:05:51 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient execute
INFO: Sending Request: POST https://iam.amazonaws.com / Parameters: (Action: GetUser, SignatureMethod: HmacSHA256, UserName: erwan, AWSAccessKeyId: MY AWESOME KEY, Version: 2010-05-08, SignatureVersion: 2, Timestamp: 2010-10-04T17:05:51.222Z, Signature: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, )
4 oct. 2010 19:05:51 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient handleResponse
INFO: Received successful response: 200, AWS Request ID: a422f04a-cfd9-11df-b738-6709d34e9585
{Path: /, UserName: erwan, UserId: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, Arn: arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXXXX:user/erwan, }
Listing erwan's groups ...
4 oct. 2010 19:05:51 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient execute
INFO: Sending Request: POST https://iam.amazonaws.com / Parameters: (Action: ListGroupsForUser, SignatureMethod: HmacSHA256, UserName: erwan, AWSAccessKeyId: MY AWESOME KEY, Version: 2010-05-08, SignatureVersion: 2, Timestamp: 2010-10-04T17:05:51.388Z, Signature: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, )
4 oct. 2010 19:05:51 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient handleResponse
INFO: Received successful response: 200, AWS Request ID: a43bf67d-cfd9-11df-a1ef-f7061c8dca90
[]
Adding user 'erwan' to 'Administrators'
4 oct. 2010 19:05:51 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient execute
INFO: Sending Request: POST https://iam.amazonaws.com / Parameters: (Action: AddUserToGroup, GroupName: Administrators, SignatureMethod: HmacSHA256, UserName: erwan, AWSAccessKeyId: MY AWESOME KEY, Version: 2010-05-08, SignatureVersion: 2, Timestamp: 2010-10-04T17:05:51.569Z, Signature: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX )
4 oct. 2010 19:05:51 com.amazonaws.http.HttpClient handleResponse
INFO: Received successful response: 200, AWS Request ID: a457e216-cfd9-11df-a356-3d1e141e353d
done !
AWESOME !! \o/
Next, I'll make something useful out of it, like unix's adduser/addgroup script that will create individual developers and admins access keys, play with policies in order to restrict usage based on group appartenance, try to reduce groovy's startup time by preloading the interpreter, etc ...
Time Machine on a network drive : you will need to increase the band size …
... but not by hiring a new drummer
My QNAP TS-209 pro's newest firmware introduces direct support for Time Machine. It works out of the box and it is pretty cool, but i quickly realized there will be a problem in the long run: a full backup of my macbook creates about 22 000 bands in the sparse bundle volume, which the poor little QNAP has a lot of trouble reading. I believe Time Capsules and many other appliances with few CPU cycles to spare on reading directories will have troubles too. Maybe someone in Apple could think about adding 1 or 2 levels of directories in the bands of sparse images ? That would make a lot of happy Time Capsule users 
Suggestion:
- bands are named by hexadecimal codes (0..f, then 2 letters when the namespace is exhausted, etc ...), so create one sub-directory per prefix. 0/(every file that starts with 0), ..., f/(every file that starts with f).
- in order to maintain compatibility with existing sparsebundle volumes, add a "
directory-prefix-level" key in Info.plist that will be used by the function that returns a band in the bundle to find the band's exact location. directory-prefix-levelshould be increased each time the namespace exhausts, and the storage driver should be updated to redistribute files across the new directories when it happens (blocking any access to the volume when it happens). This is a classical problem to solve in a B-TREE (key redistribution in pages)
So, until Apple fixes their sparse bundle driver, the solution is to increase the band sizes, in order to make sure to have less files in the directory.
You need to have an existing backup stored on your NAS. First, I strongly suggest making a copy of the backup's directory if you care about your backups (you care about your backups, don't you ?)
The QNAP Time Machine service creates a share named /share/TMBackup. Once time machine has used it one time (even with a cancelled backup), it will contain a directory named after your mac's hostname (mine is moody)
moody.sparsebundle
This directory is a plain, standard sparse bundle as those created with hdiutil(1), with the exception of a file named com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist. This file links the backup to your host (it contains its hostname and MAC address), and Time Machine will not recognize a sparse bundle as one of his if it can't find this file in it. When this happens, TM creates another directory and starts all over: moody 1.sparsebundle
Make sure TM won't try to access the drive remotely while you run the procedure. You should disable it altogether by choosing "no drive" in it's preferences pane.
Make sure you have the share mounted, it should be accessible from a terminal. In order to do that, "enter Time Machine", cancel, open a Terminal, sudo and then i was finally able to cd /Volumes/TMBackup (the name of the volume will obviously change depending on your setup)
Create a copy of your sparse bundle. This procedure needs free space, i believe there is no way to convert a sparse bundle in place, if you know how do to that in place, i'd be happy to hear about it :
hdiutil convert -verbose -tgtimagekey sparse-band-size=262144 -format UDSB moody.sparsebundle -o tmp.moody.sparsebundle
It will take a long time. Maybe hours for an existing, valid backup. Be warned. You are transferring a lot of data across the network.
Once the command completes, you should have moody.sparsebundle and tmp.moody.sparsebundle in the share directory on the NAS. Copy com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist to the new location:
cp moody.sparsebundle/com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist tmp.moody.sparsebundle/
Change the new sparse bundle's name to the former one:
mv moody.sparsebundle moody.sparsebundle.old
mv tmp.moody.sparsebundle moody.sparsebundle
You should be good to go with TM now. Give it a try ...
Once you have validated TM can access your new bundle and is displaying data from your backup, you can get rid of the old moody.sparsebundle.old directory.
Monitis vs Open Source ? WTF ?
In a recently published white paper, Monitis is trying to prove that their cloud-based monitoring solution is far superior to "Open Source Monitoring Software".
What are the arguments that should make you discard any Open Source based monitoring solution ?
- robust notifications and alerts
- quick and easy to setup
- low cost of entry and TCO
- monitoring from outside the internal network
- easily scalable
- green
- cool
So, what do these bullets have to do Open Source versus proprietary exactly ? absolutely nothing.
This whitepaper proves that there may be better and more cost-effective options than hosting your own monitoring infrastructure yourself. Well, news at ten ! Wow ! this is absolutely fantastic !
Any seasoned sysadmin should know that a switch can fry or a mail server can go down, letting your monitoring infrastructure without any mean to probe for services health and alert you. That's part of monitoring 101 !
This is not a "OSS or proprietary", "OSS or hosted", "OSS or whatever" decision, this is a design decision. They are comparing setting up a full-blown monitoring infrastructure (probes, queues, passive/active, agents, etc ...) against editing probes and alerts in an existing platform. Theirs, more exactly.
Robust notifications and alerts ? Can I be notified via jabber (or yammer) when using monitis ? no. Available notification options are e-mail and/or text messages. My monitoring infrastructure sends alerts using e-mails, jabber and private yams. Can i do that with monitis ? no. I wrote the alert scripts myself. Can i do that with monitis ? no. Argument dismissed.
Quick and easy to setup ? I'm pretty sure the platform that monitis use for their service is not easy to setup. That's part of why they provide a pretty good product, that's the barrier to entry in their business. They sell a service that's easy to setup. I would expect no less. Now, is adding monitoring for new hosts and services difficult in my current monitoring platform ? not at all. Once i have passed the initial setup phase, which is, admitedly, quite a steep slope to climb, i can add services and hosts in a breeze. My platform runs on a similar cloud infrastructure that they are selling as a green and cool tech. I even add the hosts automatically to the monitoring infrastructure when the instances are launched. I have started writing software that would monitor a specific metric (not a TCP port availability or a server's transmit time, a business-related metric) that would start instances when needed. Can i do that with the monitis platform ? no. My platform is as "quick and easy" to setup.
Low cost of entry and TCO ? Admitedly, if you want to be serious about monitoring, you need dedicated hardware. In the white paper, the arguments against setting up your own platform are the cost of the hardware, and the decently competent people required to operate it :
For open-source tools, however, the tab for monitoring is high. Considerthese costs:
- $2,000 + for a server
- $2,000 + for a backup server and storage
- $1,000 yearly per server for electricity
- Setup and maintenance labor cost (usually a dedicated or a part time resource – at least $30,000 per year) to do such things as:
- Add plug-ins
- Backup data
- Fix issues, patching
- Update software
- Setup monitoring and alerting
Where is the connection with Open Source Software ? They are assuming operating costs for their customers, mutualizing them, thus making sure that they can collect significant margins. Nice, but if i change "Open Source" to "proprietary", the arguments stands. Even more, actually. I know a lot of proprietary monitoring solutions that require much more hardware and administration than any "Open Source" (thinking HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, ...)
Monitoring from outside ? Having an external monitor is good practice and a proper design decision. Again, what does it has to do with "Open Source" ? Nothing in the "Open Source" solution they are trying to debunk prevents you from setting up an external monitoring system. The software even has built-in support for that. And does monitis allow me to monitor some services inside my infrastructure without exposing them ? if their platform is hosted on the cloud, they must be using multiple different IP addresses for running their probes. How do i set up my border routers ? Do I even want to do that ?! No, I don't The proper monitoring architecture must include both external and internal servers that will run probes.
Easily scalable ? Their platform scales. Good for them. Congrats. With its centralized architecture, and the fact that, by default, every probes are run from a centralized host, Nagios may not scale well, ok. But the "few hundreds" servers assumed in this white paper is far from the limit. And you can make Nagios scale. I don't claim it is easy though.
green ? my Nagios server is running on top of the cloud. It's green too ! it's cool too ! what a joke !
Ok, that was fun. Just a few totally irrelevant arguments against using Open Source Monitoring Software by a provider of a proprietary monitoring solution ...
It reminds me when Nominum was arguing about their "superior proprietary solution", allegedly more secure because the source code wasn't available. Just like if cache poisoning attacks were caused by the availability of BIND's source code.
If monitis can prove that they don't use any kind of open source software in their platform, they may have good basis in such arguments, but I just doubt it. I'm pretty sure they are using open source software all over their platform. For a start, netcraft.com data about their web servers doesn't display such a dislike toward OSS when it comes to web servers and operating systems. I can't help but wondering if it is the same internally.
In any case, they should not shoot on projects such as Nagios, which at least, must have helped them decide to design their own proprietary platform ! The reasoning in this white-paper is completely flawed. It should be titled "Why Monitis hosted monitoring is better", and every reference to "Open Source Software" in there should be replaced by "self-managed monitoring solution".
Burning MPEG2-TS to DVD – E03 – adding the subtitles
DVD subtitles aren't text, hardware players don't support rendering text into fonts, so you have to insert images that will be displayed by the player at the right time.
When demuxing our TS in the first article, we have extracted the subtitles in subrip format. We now need a tool that will create another MPEG2 track that contains images of the subtitles, rendered with the right font.
spumux, part of the dvdauthor suite does this job fairly well. Again, use your package manager to install dvdauthor and you should be able to use it.
XML subtitles descriptor
spumux uses an XML descriptor file that helps it render the subtitles. You specify the location of the subrip file, its charset, the font that will be used for rendering the text, and various other parameters for the location of the subtitles.
Here is the content of the file named stream-subs.xml we are going to use for this project.
<subpictures> <stream> <textsub filename="stream[889].srt" characterset="ISO8859-1" fontsize="28.0" font="arial.ttf" horizontal-alignment="center" vertical-alignment="bottom" left-margin="60" right-margin="60" top-margin="20" bottom-margin="30" subtitle-fps="25" movie-fps="25" movie-width="720" movie-height="574" force="yes" /> </stream> </subpictures>
$ spumux -P stream-subs.xml < stream.ps > stream-with-subs.ps DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.14. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype Send bugs to INFO: Locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8 INFO: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer INFO: Opened iconv descriptor. *UTF-8* *ISO8859-1* INFO: Read 1267 subtitles INFO: Unicode font: 242 glyphs. INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.a written INFO: 1267 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.12 Statistics: - Processed 1267 subtitles. - The longest display line had 37 characters. - The maximum number of displayed lines was 2. - The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 32. - The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 38. - The biggest subtitle box had 3118 bytes.
When spumux finishes processing, you should have a stream-with-subs.ps file in your current working directory, and you should be able to test that it displays properly using VLC or your media player (VLC won't recognize the subtitles stream in the resulting PS, but don't worry, spumux has inserted it properly.
Fonts
Not liking Arial too much, I am still looking for the best font for the job, spumux comes with a set of fonts coming from the mplayer project, if you want to try out other fonts, they just have to be in ~/.spumux just copy/link the .ttf files there.
Timing issues
Sometimes the subtitles are offset a bit and do not display at the right time. I have found a very handy tool named Sears that will allow you to edit the subtitles, change the text or timing, and more importantly offset the whole batch by one or 2 seconds if necessary.
Now it's time to move on the final step of our DVD authoring. Creating the DVD structure from the resulting MPEG2-PS.
Back to the summary article
Episode 1: Edit cutpoints and de-mux with ProjectX
Episode 2: Multiplex the resulting streams into a DVD-compatible PS using mplex
Episode 4: authoring the DVD
Burning MPEG2-TS to DVD – E02 – Multiplex audio and video streams into a DVD-compliant PS
So you've just finished extracting the video, audio and subtitles tracks from your TS, as described in the previous article of the serie.
In the working directory, you should have the following files:
total 8583424 -rw-r--r-- 1 erwan staff 1699268204 7 mai 09:43 stream.m2v -rw-r--r-- 1 erwan staff 207926016 7 mai 09:43 stream.mp2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 erwan staff 2487420480 6 mai 21:22 stream.ts -rw-r--r-- 1 erwan staff 82010 7 mai 09:43 stream[889].srt -rw-r--r-- 1 erwan staff 3232 7 mai 09:43 stream_log.txt
stream.m2v is the video track, stream.mp2 is the audio track, the subtitles have been extracted into stream[889].srt.
You're going to build a DVD-compliant PS file using mplex. mplex is part of the mjpegtools program suite, you can install them with your package manager, on my my Mac, I used macports to install it (port install mjpegtools).
[19:10:02]-erwan@ip-192-168-224-58:~/tmp/article > mplex -f8 -o stream.ps stream.m2v stream.mp2 INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.9.0 (2.2.7 $Date: 2006/02/01 22:23:01 $) INFO: [mplex] File stream.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream. INFO: [mplex] File stream.mp2 looks like an MPEG Audio stream. INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options! INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream! INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (stream.m2v) INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0 INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 720 INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 576 INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 5430400 bits/sec INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 0 INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (stream.mp2) INFO: [mplex] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0 INFO: [mplex] Audio version : 1.0 INFO: [mplex] Layer : 2 INFO: [mplex] CRC checksums : yes INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 32768 bytes/sec (256 kbit/sec) INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 48000 Hz INFO: [mplex] Mode : 0 stereo INFO: [mplex] Mode extension : 0 INFO: [mplex] Copyright bit : 0 no copyright INFO: [mplex] Original/Copy : 0 copy INFO: [mplex] Emphasis : 0 none INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream: INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 5810448 INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified : 10080000 INFO: [mplex] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000 INFO: [mplex] Run-in delay = 7200 Video delay = 7200 Audio delay = 10800 INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences... INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 0 frame=000000 sector=00000000 INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf= 0 frame=000000 sector=00000000 INFO: [mplex] Scanned to end AU 162441 INFO: [mplex] STREAM e0 completed INFO: [mplex] STREAM c0 completed INFO: [mplex] Multiplex completion at SCR=584792210. INFO: [mplex] Video e0: completed INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: completed INFO: [mplex] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0 INFO: [mplex] Video Stream length: 1699268204 bytes INFO: [mplex] Sequence headers: 4820 INFO: [mplex] Sequence ends : 1 INFO: [mplex] No. Pictures : 162442 INFO: [mplex] No. Groups : 4820 INFO: [mplex] No. I Frames : 4820 avg. size 32405 bytes INFO: [mplex] No. P Frames : 49328 avg. size 12305 bytes INFO: [mplex] No. B Frames : 108294 avg. size 8643 bytes INFO: [mplex] Average bit-rate : 2092000 bits/sec INFO: [mplex] Peak bit-rate : 5431600 bits/sec INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 153570 INFO: [mplex] AUDIO_STATISTICS: c0 INFO: [mplex] Audio stream length 207926016 bytes. INFO: [mplex] Syncwords : 270737 INFO: [mplex] Frames : 270737 padded INFO: [mplex] Frames : 0 unpadded INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 779 INFO: [mplex] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Ok, now stream.ps contains a DVD-compliant stream that you'll be able to use for authoring the DVD. Before going further make sure that you can play it with your media player (VLC comes handy), and that the audio and video tracks are in sync ...
Now, it's time to insert the subtitles track.
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Episode 1 : Edit cutpoints and de-mux with ProjectX
Episode 3: adding the subtitles
Episode 4: authoring the DVD