Selectable subtitles on SVCD: What am I doing wrong?

[Slaughter]

Hi,
I've read every single post and tutorial from this forum about making SVCD selectable subtitles. I've tried everything but it simply won't work. At first I thought the problem was my DVD player, but yesterday I just downloaded a sample SVCD image with subtitles from this site, burned it, and it worked fine! I don't have I-Author, but I thought WinSubMux would do the job, actually, it runs just fine and appears to be doing the right thing (when I use it´s "analyse" feature with the muxed file, it shows the subtitle streams and the console log shows all the subtitles that were found within the file). Then, I burn the CD and the subtitles simply don't show...
Does anybody succeeded with this thing yet? The other tools I'm using are: TMPGEnc (to encode the MPEG-2 file), MaestroSBT (to render the subtitle bitmaps from a ssa file) and finally WinSubMux, to add the subtitle streams to the MPEG-2 file. I'm using Nero 5.5 to burn it.

Any help would be great (After 3 long nights fighting against these damn subtitles, I am about to give up... )

Thx for your help!

[txix]

I'm having the same problems. I-Author just refuses to work and dies with a windows error popup. Winsubmux seems to work just fine, but I get no subtitles on my dvd player. Which is cvd subt capable, as I can see the subtitles on the PAL test SVCD which you can download from the website.

I use the same soft chain: TMPGEnc, MaestroSBT, WinSubMux, Nero

What's wrong?

[Slaughter]

Txix

I just found out that the real bad guy here is Nero! Maestro and Winsubmux were doing their job correct all the time, but at the end, when you call Nero to build the SVCD image, it just mess with things and build a SVCD with subtitles that can't be read by DVD Players...
I came to that conclusion looking at the VCDImager debug log file that came with the sample image I downloaded from here. The log points out that one subtitle stream was found in the image, and when I ran VCDDebug over the image built by Nero, no subtitle stream was found...

The trick to get it to work is: download the latest UNSTABLE version of VCDImager and use it to build the image instead of Nero (The latest stable version of VCDImager also don't work! ). Before you burn it, you can assure that everything worked fine running the VCDDebug utility (that comes with VCDImager) over the image. It generates a log file after analising the image, and if a working subtitle stream is found, it will show you.
Finally, you can use Nero to burn the image built by VCDImager.

Doing this, after weeks of trial and error, I was able to get my own selectable subtitles to work with my DVD Player. That's what I call a problem HARD to track!!

BTW I appologise for my english, I'm brazilian, and as you migth know, it's not the native language around here...

[Gargoyle]

How odd... I have the opposite problem-
I used DVD2SVCD to rip+convert (2 audio tracks and subtitles), then used VCDEasy to create chapters, bin/cue files, and burn the SVCD. The chapters work fine, but I could not get the subtitles to display.
I took the original MPG file created by DVD2SVCD, loaded it into Nero + burned it, and the subtitles work fine, but of course no chapters.
I finally took the bin/cue files created by VCDEasy and burned it with Nero, and had the same result as the first try: chapters work, but no subtitles!
Now if I can just figure out a way to get chapters AND subtitles to work.....
Any suggestions?

[^GeX^]

where i can found some tutorial about that, i dont know how to use the WinSubMux and Maestro SBT

[^GeX^]

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