adding subs prob

[SilverDales]

Hi I have a small prob. I have a ripped film which included 3 sets of subs and 2 folders for disc 1 and disc 2. Now I extracted everything and joined the two AVI's for the 2 discs and then converted to DVD Mpeg with DVD2SVCD. Then I went to author using DVDLAB Pro 2, set it all up went to add subs for complete and DVDLAB wont recognise the subs as they are IDX files. So I tried using Subtitle workshop,no joy, Subtitle Creator, no joy. When I dl some subs to use all was well till I went into the seconds half of the film then it was out of sync.
I'm tearing my hair out here, any one able to help me?

[manono]

I don't believe that DVDLab supports subtitles in IDX/SUB format. You'll have to OCR them into some format it recognizes, such as SRT. VobSub Configure (comes with the VobSub package) can do this.

Edit: After reading Baldrick's elaboration at his link, I remembered that I didn't mean to say VobSub Configure for the OCR, but SubResynch, which also comes with VobSub. Thanks, Baldrick.

[Baldrick]

or https://forum.videohelp.com/topic267416.html

[manusse]

Another way is to author you DVD with DVDLab pro using any srt file.
Then you use SubtitleCreator's DVD authoring wizard to replace your "fake" subtitle by your sub/idx subtitle (which is supported by SubtitleCreator).
http://subtitlecreator.sourceforge.net/SubtitleCreatorWizard.html
This way, there is no need to OCR.

[Edit] I've just noticed that there is a bug in the current version of SubtitleCreator and the DVD wizard will not accept an idx file (I will fix this for next version). However you can open your idx file in the Tools->Manipulate SUP menu of SubtitleCreator and save it as SUP. Then the DVD authoring wizard will accept your SUP file.

Cheers
Manusse