Difficulty converting subtitles

[DRP]

I've got a foreign movie c/w subtitles that I need to convert to SVCD. The movie is an AVI at 23.976fps. The subtitles are in VobSub format.

To play it, I need to convert the movie to PAL. That in itself is no problem for me, except for the subtitles. The movie is 16:9 ratio and I intend to encode it for display on a 4:3 TV.

What I want to be able to do is convert the VobSub subtitles to PAL timing *and* have them display in the black border at the bottom of the screen rather than over the actual picture.

I can do all this already when the subtitles are in SRT or SSA format, but I don't know how to handle it when they are in VobSub. I've tried all the subtitle convertors in the Tools section, but none seems to support this VobSub format, so I can't convert them.

Can someone please point me in the direction of a guide or tool that will allow me to do as described above?

I don't have AVIsynth, and really would prefer to not use this software at all if possible.

Thanks.

[Tommyknocker]

Have you tried Sub Station Alpha? It can load .sab files, and save them as .sub files as well.