subs get screwed up...

[Rollercoaster]

Hi,

I'm trying to add a subtitle stream to my EPISODIC dvd and i'm following..well noone's guide right now, perhaps i'll make one of my own after this...

I'm using pgcdemux, manmux, subtitle creator and vobblanker to do so, as suggested by TheMatrixx (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=83566) but i must be doing something wrong..

Here's what i'm doing:

1 - I demux my dvd using pgcdemux, one episode at a time
2 - I use subtitle creator to load the downloaded subs (in .srt format) and convert them to .sup. All i do is load them, set my preferences (font, size...), synchronize them using the existing subs and them save them as .sup
3- I use manmux to mux everything back together: the video, the 2 audio streams, the 2 subtitle streams (the one in the dvd and the new one)

And i this is where the problem is, the muxing. After muxing the files, i get some vob files, which is normal, but when i load them up in powerdvd i get each subtitle stream screwed up (see the attachment please). And if i continue the process, that is, working with vobblanker to replace the vobs in the original dvd, and really burn the final thing into to the dvd and play it on my standalone dvd player, i get the same as the attachment, but with a yellowish tone instead of the purple'ish in the pc...

What could i be doing wrong?

Another way to do this, as i learnt, would be to use the dvd authoring wizard in subtitle creator, which is very straightforward. the problem is that apparently, multi pgc is not supported, so i can't use the wizard...

Any ideas?

tnks

[Rollercoaster]

sorry i don't know how to screenshot a video, so the subs didn't appear...

but they would appear with colours (green or purple or yellow), not nice and white...

[CoNS]

The problem is the IFO colours... Each PGC, including the one holding your original main movie, has its own 16 colour pallette.

In your case, the pallette is not identical to the default colour pallettes in SubtitleCreator and Muxman (it's "Muxman", not "Manmux"...! ;) ).

To solve your problem, load the main movie IFO file (from the original DVD structure) into SubtitleCreator and select the colours you like from this pallette *before* creating the SUP file.

After muxing with Muxman, the newly muxed DVD still has funny colours, as this DVD has Muxman's default colour pallette.

If you want to copy the newly muxed main movie PGC into the old DVD structure, then don't copy the IFO colours from the newly muxed DVD in this process, and you have the final result you want.

Or to make the subtitles look fine in the newly muxed DVD, use PgcEdit to import the colour pallette from the original main movie PGC into the newly muxed main movie PGC.

[Rollercoaster]

tnk u very much for the reply CoNS

i have one question though

"If you want to copy the newly muxed main movie PGC into the old DVD structure, then don't copy the IFO colours from the newly muxed DVD in this process, and you have the final result you want."

how can i do (or in this case, not do) that?

we're talking about vobBlanker right? or any other ifo updater...

[CoNS]

Yes. You can use VobBlanker's "Replace PGC" function. IIRC, there's a setting (under More Settings?) to control whether to copy the IFO colours (the CLUT), or not.

Or you can use PgcEdit's "Replace Title" function.

Or copy (and rename, if needed) the VOB files manually (using Windows Explorer etc.) and update the IFOs using IfoUpdate or BatchIFOUpdate, which also gives to the option to copy the IFO colours (the CLUT), or not.

[Rollercoaster]

TNKS CoNS!

I finally have my problem solved :D:D

I'm so happy...

Turns out, it really was in vobblanker but not the setting u've recalled. I had to uncheck "Fix Sub Streams indexes if Aspect Ratio changes"...

anyhow, the problem's solved and i'm back on business :D

tnks a lot again :D