Clean Up Subtitles

[ejp]

i put this question in my other post regarding subtitles, but i don't know if everyone is reading it, so i'll post a new topic...

i've embedded the subs to the video. i've recompressed it as DivX. and sometimes the text looks blurred, and "messed up" .. like below.

http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/ejp/subs.txt

is there anyway to "clean" this up?

[theDruid]

ejb - i know i wasn't much help in your other thread... but i just wanted to ask:

what are we looking at with your link? It appears to be a (possibly corrupted) text file (.txt)

Is this what we're meant to see? If so - I'm not sure what your question is - is this a subtitle file that has been corrupted?

I'm just trying to clarify what the problem is here.

cheers,

mcdruid.

(It was my understading by the end of the last thread that you were adding subtitles to your (already encoded) DivX movie, and that the rendering of the subtitles with the movie was not very good)

[ejp]

theDruid...

it's just a "trick" to get around not being able to show angelfire-hosted images on another page, or from a link. if i posted this link...

http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/ejp/subs.jpg , then it'll show up like this...



...so if you change the extension of the image file to .txt, then you will be able to see it. i actually should've disabled the BBCode the first time, and put the [img] tags around "http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/ejp/subs.txt", then everything would've been fine. but i'm not a frequent poster, so i just kinda over looked the options. sorry for the misuderstanding.

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so, everone .. just look below for the concern of my problem, which is an example of my "messed-up" subtitles. thanks.



does anyone know how to fix this?

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what i've already figured out is that it's the re-compressing. i'm re-compressing it as DivX Low-Motion, since it's very easy to use. if i leave it uncompressed, then it turns out ok. if i then re-compress the uncompressed video, then the subtitles still look fine, but i'm not about to encode the entire movie UNCOMPRESSED, then re-compress it, since it takes up too much space. oh, and if i compress it as DivX High-Motion, the subtitles turn out fine, but the video gets blocky. so i know it must have to do with the codec. maybe someone has had this problem and has found better codec settings. and another this is that the "blurring" always messes up the "e", or blurs the letter "e" onto other letters. if anyone can help, please do. thanks.

[ejp]

just in case anyone was thinking about it, i've already tried avisynth. still the same thing.