VCD to DVD with subs - subpictures below video-image - Help?!

[nbarzgar]

Hello everyone,

I have tried to use SVCD2DVD (great tool!) to make a DVD from VCD-file. It is PAL, 352x288 and I have got a .sup-file in the folder w same file-name as video.

Now the authoring runs without a hitch (and very fast!), the result works fine, BUT the subs are just barely visible at the bottom edge of the video.

I tried to position them differently, taking the mpeg1-resolution into account (presuming that to be the problem), but afterwards the subs appeared in the middle of the video...

Has anyone a suggestion what the error might be? ANY hint will be appreciated. I am almost prepared to convert the video to DVD-mpeg2, but I still hope this might be avoided...

[mats.hogberg]

What's the dimensions of the images in the .sup file? My take on this, is that they should be the same as the video - 352x288

/Mats

[nbarzgar]

I tried both alternatives, saving at Full D1 (PAL) and Half D1 as well, to no avail... That is, when I position the subs in a .sup file according to smaller res., they appear in the middle of the video image afterwards; if I position them according to higher res., I end up with the edges just showing at the bottom of.. (s.a.)

Because of all this try and error I now make the following assumption: the video-image of a mpeg1-DVD (i.e. actual 352x288) is enlarged to fit the screen during playback, but NOT to Full D1 size (720x576 in this case=PAL), but a certain percentage of that size. That would explain, that in formatting the subs for both resolutions it goes wrong both times.

But what size/percentage would that be, actually? I mean, is there a place where it tells one about tese technicalities so as to enable correct formatting of the subs?

Thank y'all for bearing with me!

[mats.hogberg]

What device(s) have you used for playback? Computer software player(s)? Standalone hardware player(s)? Does it behave the same on all playback devices?

/Mats

[nbarzgar]

Tried software and hardware players on this... Don't remember, if I tried standalone everytime, but still - there it was...

Perhabs I will get there, if I play around with resolutons and position a bit more, but just now I am fed up and have re-encoded the mpeg1-file to mpeg2, Full D1. Actually it's great quality to begin with, so on TV-screen, with Avisynth +"XSharpen"-filter (default-setting) and WinFF for encoding (another GUI for ffmpeg) the image is as good, if not better on detail...

Anyone got a solution to this problem by any chance?

Thanks to all so far!