sst/Muxman - DVD doesn't display subtitles

[thinredline]

Hello.
Well after having sync problems with Subtitle creator, i decided to use MaestroSBT.
I generate the sst file and bmps.
I mux the subtitles with muxman, but they are not displayed afterwards when i watch the DVD, although it has an option to select them or not (I mean they are there).

What am I doing wrong?

[El Heggunte]

1) IIRC, the .BMPs must be RLE-encoded at 4-bits per pixel (at least, that's what works for DVD-lab PRO);

2) Do you use the version 2.6.0.0 of MaestroSBT, or the newest (aka less reliable) one

3) Can you see the DVD subpictures in DVDSubEdit ?

[thinredline]

Thanks for your reply.

2) I used MaestroSBT 2.6.2.1
3) No, I loaded the vobs, and can't see anything.
1) i left it as it were, at compressed tiffs. Should i change them as you said?
(if i do, should i use the Windows BMP 4 bits compressed or uncompressed?

[El Heggunte]

Yes, you really should try the 4-bit option ( use the uncompressed output ONLY IF the compressed one doesn't work, of course ). DVD subpics are limited to a 16-color palette, and apparently not all authoring programs were designed to automagically convert the uncompressed .BMPs to the appropriate format.

[thinredline]

Yes, thanks that works now.

But I have again the same delay issue in comparison with the original srt file I had.
I'm trying to use the "re-time" function of DVDsubedit, but it doesn't let me.
It says "Retiming subtitles is only possible in the title domain and if the entire domain is loaded".
I see the manual and it says:

To do that, make sure that you load the full title domain (by opening the files with the “Open Full Domain” menu, or making sure you’re dropping all the VOB files of the VTS in question – but excluding the menu of course, for example vts_01_0.vob).
DVDSubEdit will refuse to re-time subpictures if you’re in the menu domain, or if you omitted one of the vob files.

But I have loaded all vobs of the movie..

edit: Never mind, the re-timing works now..

[thinredline]

By the way, I'm trying differenet styles in the fonts.
I used Arian Narrow 22.
and now i was trying to use Arian Narrow 22 bold to see how that would be.
But muxman encountered an error, and it said that "bmp433 encoded line exceeds 1440bits"

What to do about this? Maybe the line exceeded the screen space?
Although i see the bmp and it's fine.

[El Heggunte]

Probably that symptom indicates a design limitation in Muxman; this is what Mr. MPUCoder said about the issue:

"Encoded line exceed 1440 bits" error has to do with the complexity of the subpicture bitmap, each line must compress to 1440 bits or less. No doubt the garbled bmp caused this.

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