Adding subtitles to (S)VCD

[jonathan1014]

I'm really sorry do this but nobody told me how do that!!! Maybe I was in the wrong forum...

Hi everyone!!

I'm a newbie on the forum! I'm french, I live in Toulouse.

And i'm looking for info dealing with subtitles...

I have an MPEG-1 movie and subtitles that go with it (2 formats : .srt and .ssa)

I'd like to make a SVCD or a VCD with them both! in order to play it on my standalone DVD-player...

At the time, i have tried :

Frameserving with VirtualDub and reecoding with TMPGEnc. in VCD and SVCD mode. in SVCD i observed the quality is poor (maybe reecoding a poor quality movie?) and in VCD, the quality looks the same as the original! BUT there is problem : in both cases, audio and video aren't synchronised!!!! Yet subtitles are ok...

The second method i found is to use SubMux or WinSubMux. I tried it but it gives me an error message while doing it...I'm at work so I can't tell you exactly what (i could do it if you ask tonight). I was wondering whether it could be that my movie is in MPEG-1 not 2 and SubMux works fine with MPEG-2 files...

Well, as you can see...i'm trying hard but i've no solution at the time!!

Thanx in advance for your ideas!!!

CU

PS : My computer is not really speedy, it is a PII 33 Mhz with 400 Mo RAM, could be the explanation to the desynchronisation?

John

[mats.hogberg]

in SVCD i observed the quality is poor (maybe reecoding a poor quality movie?) and in VCD, the quality looks the same as the original! Yet subtitles are ok...

So, this is no subtitles prob, but an audio sync prob!?! Usually, SVCDs come out closer to the original than VCD, as higher resolution and bitrates can be used for SVCD.
For audio/video sync probs, see the plethora of guides available left!

/Mats

[jonathan1014]

I wanted to mention that the original video is correctly sync...

But when i reencode it in order to put the subtitles, it desync video and audio...I don't why...

That was the point!

Hope you'll help me!!

CU John

[mats.hogberg]

They always are. It seems until you try to encode to mpeg, that is. Most likely there are bad frames in the AVI, or you're encoding to some other frame rate, or the audio is VBR, or ... the list of possible causes for desync is loooong! Again: read the guides!

/Mats

[jonathan1014]

Ok! So Thanx and I'll be in touch with you as soon as I have it fixed!!!

CU

John