Problem with the transparency of subtitles

[architectofpain]

Hello.
I was attempting to author a DVD as I'd added a subtitle track. It seems that the body of the subtitles I used were somehow made with the same pixels used for the background. I'd attempted to colourise them with DVDSubEdit and only found this out after emailing the creator of DVDSubEdit, who replied after seeing the .sup file:

"These subs are strange, I don't think I've seen this before: the body of the characters is made with the same pixels as the background (click on 'b' and you'll see that the background lights up, along with the inside of the characters).
So you can't possibly make it so the body is not transparent, because you'd have to make the background pixels opaque (they're used for the body as well) and that would look horrible.
You can't control independently, on these subs, the color/transparency of the body pixels and of the background pixels...
And that's the source of your trouble..."

Has anyone else encountered this problem, and/or found a solution?

Regards.

[manono]

If the author of DVDSubEdit can't solve it, it can't be solved. My suggestion is to start over and do it right this time. You didn't say how you created the subs or what you used to add them to the DVD, so how can anyone possibly help?

Take that DVD with the funky subs and replace them with good ones following this guide and Baldrick's Method 2:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/277950-How-to-add-new-subtitles-to-an-existing-DVD

If you can't figure it out make the subs available and someone here can quickly prepare them for authoring again.

[sambat]

How about use PgcEdit to open any DVD with good subtitles, edit the PGC and export the sub-pic lookup table.
Open the DVD with the bad subs, edit the PGC and import the saved table and save the DVD.

[architectofpain]

My bad.

Initially when I added the subs to the DVD, I ran into another problem where they worked but some of them didn't display during playback on my TV. In that case the colours could be changed.

I had the subs as an .srt file. I'm not sure what they were created with. I used SubtitleCreator to author them to DVD. That's when I encountered the pixel problems, and I then found out that SubtitleCreator doesn't work correctly with Windows 7 64 bit, which is what I'm running.
I'd used Method 1 in Baldrick's guide, so I'll try Method 2.

I'll try PgcEdit too.
Thanks.