.srt subtitle success dependant on source format?

[ncg]

Does wether or not you can burn subtitles into an mpeg4 file depend on the format of the source material?

I ask because I had a tranport stream file outputted from ProjectX that I wanted to burn some subtitles into. No matter what I did it wouldn't work. The subtitles just would not appear on screen, although the the font of the seconds counter would change with changes in the filters tab. But when I demuxed from projectx to .m2v the subtitles appeared ok...

Things seems to work from an mpg-1 source as well but still not a transport stream - .ts from Projectx

This is using a .srt subtitle file with ffmpegx .9s

And a related question - Other than the font size option is there a way to make the font smaller? Even at 1 the size is to big for my tastes and I would like it smaller.

Thanks, hope you can help.

[major]

The subtitles are rendered after the source has been read so the source format should not matter. However, you need to use mencoder engine to burn subtitles. A size 0 is being added to version 0.0.9t.

[ncg]

hmmm,

Well something odd is definately happening here as I just did another test to confirm if it makes a difference. The captured transport stream produces a file with no subtitles. After demuxing that same stream through ProjectX to a .m2v file and encoding the subtitles appear without a problem. (This is using mencoder for everything)

Exact same process for two different types of files (from the same source) and the result is different.

I can send you the end result of the two different sample files if you want, they are less than one MB each.

The subtitles are rendered after the source has been read so the source format should not matter. However, you need to use mencoder engine to burn subtitles. A size 0 is being added to version 0.0.9t.

[major]

Yes, send them to major4@mac.com together with the process output for each encoding.

[ncg]

Thanks for the help. They are on the way.

Yes, send them to major4@mac.com together with the process output for each encoding.