Error in Winsubmux “is not a valid integer value”

[penamty]

I have been trying to add switchable subtitles to a SVCD using SubRip to create the sub file from a DVD Rip and Winsubmux to merge the subtitles to my SVCD. I read in another post that the message “PH is not a valid integer value” was because the file that SubRip creates is not completely compatible with Winsubmux, and that you have to delete the header of the sub file to make it work. I did that but now I get the message “Su is not a valid integer value”

The beginning of the unedited sub file created by SubRip is as follows:

# PHILIPS SVCD DESIGNER 1.5 - 2.0 SUBTITLES FILE
#
# GENERATED BY SubRip 1.15 on 07/02/2003 11:58:38 p.m.
#
[HEADER]
TITLE B5 sub format subs
FRAMERATE PAL

[PALETTE]
0 (1, 0, 226)
1 (21, 21, 21)
2 (243, 244, 241)
3 (254, 254, 254)
4 (17, 235, 16)
5 (235, 20, 236)
6 (251, 255, 28)
7 (71, 71, 71)
8 (125, 125, 125)
9 (225, 225, 225)
10 (113, 32, 3)
11 (7, 116, 7)
12 (1, 0, 110)
13 (205, 10, 234)
14 (14, 114, 237)
15 (234, 98, 10)
[LIST]
COLOR (3 1 2 7)
CONTRAST (0 15 15 15)
B5 subs bipmap00001.bmp 00:04:24:00 00:04:28:15 552 066 084 082
B5 subs bipmap00002.bmp 00:04:28:19 00:04:34:15 504 066 106 082
B5 subs bipmap00003.bmp 00:04:34:19 00:04:38:11 408 068 154 082
B5 subs bipmap00004.bmp 00:04:38:15 00:04:42:11 424 066 147 082

Could somebody tell me what exactly do I have to edit in the original sub file in order for it to work in Winsubmux

[sterno]

Submux format is not quite the same as Phillips SVCD Designer, but that's the closest that subrip can produce. You just need to delete everything above the first "B5 subs bipmap" line.

[penamty]

I did just that but I get the message “Su is not a valid integer value” instead of "Hu is not a valid integer value" as before I edited the sub file.
by the way what is "Hu" and "Su"

[sterno]

As I look at your pasted sub file, it occurs to me that since submux format uses a space as a delimiter it may be confused by the spaces in your bmp filenames.

The reason you get things like "PH is not a valid integer" is that it just tries to break the lines in to fields seperated by spaces, and things like the comments and information in the header aren't in the format it expects. It looks for a number and doesn't find one, so it tells you it's not a valid integer value.

[penamty]

Hey! that was it, I just eliminated the spaces in the name of the bitmap and Winsubmux did no give any more error messages.
I haven´t been able to make the subtitles of the multiplexed file show in WinDVD thou. I thought they should show in that player by selecting subtitles in the menu. Any ideas why they don´t show?

[sterno]

I don't know of any software player that can display SVCD or CVD subtitles. The only way to try them out is with a set-top player that supports them.