Replacing subtitles

[Nenoosch]

Hi all, I was hoping one of you could help me out.

I've got an American DVD, which has english and spanish subtitles, and an .srt subtitle in dutch. I want to replace the spanish subs on the dvd with the dutch ones, but I want to keep the rest of the DVD (extra's, menu's) intact. At first sight this looked quite simple, I re-authored the main movie with the english and the dutch (instead of the spanish) subtitle and replaced all of the original main-movie .VOB files with the new ones. I was very surprised to see that this didn't work. The result plays perfectly on my pc, but it won't play on my stand-alone.

Can somebody please help me out? I used IfoEdit to re-author the main movie, and really want to keep the menu's.

[Tommyknocker]

What kind of subtitles did you use? I use .sups with IfoEdit.

[Nenoosch]

Yes, sups. I create those with SRT2Sup, and when I play the re-authored DVD it works perfectly. However, I can't keep the menu if I author like that.

[Nenoosch]

The problem with playing on my stand-alone is not in the subtitles. The whole DVD seems to be messed up after replacing the VOBs.

I would like the DVD-player to think that the second subtitle is still spanish, although it is dutch. So when you select spanish subs in the menu, dutch subs appear. I would say this shouldn't be such a problem and on the pc, this works as I expected. On the stand-alone however, the image is messed up very badly.

[Nenoosch]

Summary of the errors:

when I simply replace the old VOB's with the new ones (same number of VOB's by the way) the DVD plays on my pc. But when I open the resulting DVD in DVDshrink, it loads the DVD and eventually produces an error "VOB file VTS_01_5.VOB" expected". There are 4 VOBs, and I really don't know why DVDshrink thinks there are 5. The IFO's haven't changed.

Hope somebody can help me. I could throw away the menu, but it's really a work of art..

[Nenoosch]

As very often, I seem to have solved my own problem. Turns out you CAN replace the original VOB files, as long as the total number of VOBs doesn't change. No idea what would happen if these numbers would differ, but no need for that right now.

It's been great having this private forum! Thanks to me for helping me out..

Regards,