Subtitle on SVCD

[djta]

I have a video file on MPEG2 and I have the Subtitle file (*.sub -philips)On Which Folder , I need to put the subtitle file on the SVCD that I want to burn whit nero ?
How can I do it , Step by Step ?
10x for the help....

[El Torro]

not possible, sorry... unless you reconvert it to an avi...

[adam]

Sure its possible but you have to multiplex the subs into the actual mpg stream. Get WinSubMux and just follow the documentation. It will export a new mpg and if you burn it then the subs should play on a hardware dvd player if it supports soft encoded subs. There are two styles of subs, the philips svcd style and the cvd style. Winsubmux can mux in either format so try them both and see which one your player supports, if any.

[EeRe8]

Hi
could someone please tell me how to make the sub file for the winsubmux
I used the maoestro or what ever it is got the bmp
but still the winsubmux gives error like it is not integer value??
what file should i load with the winsubmux where and what prog' make it???
any help or link and I will be thankfull???

[adam]

If you have the DVD you can use subrip to make the .sub file and bmp files.

If you have subtitles stored in another format you can usually use MaestroSBT to convert to .sub.

Subrip, which was probably the program used to make your subs, adds some extra info at the beginning of the .sub file. You have to edit this out using a txt viewer like notepad.

[EeRe8]

hi adam
thanks for your help but how do I edit
the sub file(not from dvd or subrip) I use the MaestroSBT for my "XXX.sub" or "XXX.ssa" and the MaestroSBT gives out the XXX.son & XXX.spf & XXX.bmp's files wich one should I use with the winsubmux or what more do I need to do????
and if had it all here how do I edit the file to be ready to winsubmux???

[adam]

Its been so long since I've done this, I don't remember what you set the output to. You want it to be in philips SVCD Designer format. What you will need is a single .sub file and a whole bunch of bmp files. The .sub is just a text file. Open it in any text viewer, ie: notepad, wordpad, word. You just need to delete the extra text at the beginning. Once you look at it, it should be very obvious.

[sterno]

I've always just used subrip to get them off DVD instead of converting from downloaded formats, but I think that you can use MaestroSBT to output to "submux" format directly and you won't have to edit the .sub file.

[EeRe8]

dear sterno and adam thanks alot for your help. at last I succeded,thanks again...
I want to share this way of adding subs with every buddy.
got thge XXX.sub file, ok,now got MaestroSBT ,ok, now on set files(in MaestroSBT) under the output script click browse then chose the script you want ::
submux (*.sub) for winsubmux or I-author(*.txt) for I author or any other script you want .
thanks again for your help .

[dar]

I have been using the same software (SubRip and WinSubMux) discussed here and I encounter the following problem when I try to mux in selectable subtitles to a SVCD with WinSubMux v02.0.2. The subtitles which are small don't appear on the svcd, others, which are long, do appear with no problems. I thought that was a problem with SubMux and WinSubMux fixed that. Is there anything else I could be doing incorrectly?

[Piccoro]

I have made SVCDs w/selectable subtitles b4 and I used this guide.
I used mpg2mps program and the i-author format for subs.
I think I used bitrate at about 2200kb/sec and 2 audio tracks otherwise my bitrate was too high in the middle of the film and it froze.
But maybe you could change the format of your subs and then mux it together.

[tedcwang]

@EeRe8

I also got as far as you described: got a XXX.sub file and a whole bunch of bitmaps. But when I use WinSubMux to mux the subs with the MPEG file, I got a lot of errors like "unknown header", "skipped XXX bytes of garbage". Do you see this problem too. Has anybody seen it before?

thanks for your help.

-ted

[dar]

I was able to fix the problem described by tedcwang by editting the .sub file. There is some junk at the top of the file. Open in it notepad and delete all the extra info. Start where the .bmp files are listed.

Using this procedure I can burn subtitles and view them on my player, but still the smaller subtitles are not visible.

So I tried the I-Author format and muxing them with mpg2mps following the guide linked by Piccoro. This fails miserably. Not visible at all. Any known problems with the I-Author format? I noticed I have a different version on SubRip (1.15), which is an updated version. Do the guides change at all for this newer version of SubRip? Any suggestions on what I should try next?

[adam]

I-Author can only create CVD style subs. Many players only support SVCD style subs, so for these I-Author won't work.