sup subtitle question

[MilesAhead]

I'm just curious if SVCD2DVD does anything with a movie.ifo file if it sees it along with movie.sup file? It seems like if I add .sup subtitles with any authoring program I've tried, I get oddball colors. I know I can fix the colors up using PgcEdit. But I'm just curious because I see some programs generate an .ifo as well as .sup file.

Subtitles seems to be the last great mystery on the web. If you search for a FAQ you only get the basic info, like some are text and some are images etc..

If you could point me to some good info I'd appreciate it.

[ChrissyBoy]

No it doesn't. Basically the colours used for the subs are defined in that IFO file, however SVCD2DVD doesn't use them as it will use a set of default colours, namely white with black outline (or the other way round - i can't remember and not in front of my own PC to check).

[MilesAhead]

No it doesn't. Basically the colours used for the subs are defined in that IFO file, however SVCD2DVD doesn't use them as it will use a set of default colours, namely white with black outline (or the other way round - i can't remember and not in front of my own PC to check).

Hmmmmm, there must be something weird happening because many authoring programs if I use .sup I end up with like a red sub with blue anti-alias or something. It's total eye strain. There must be some color conversion difference or anomaly because I get it with DVDAuthorGUI, AVStoDVD and SVCD2DVD. It's just strange. If I use PgcEdit on the produced VIDEO_TS I can fix it up easily enough. I'm just curious what's causing it. It's almost like trying to view a photograph that's a negative.