Create my own Sub's for Svcd

[ArieBK]

hi there.

i wish to rip a dvd with just English Sub's ... somehow translate it
then use the translated sub's to BURN them into the movie while Encoding with
an AVS script to CCE ....

can someone Guide me or piont me to a direction ?

:confused:

[Pko]

Well, it is not a guide, but...

1) rip the subtitles to a text-format file with subrip (i.e., a .srt file). I think that subrip does not support .ssa format, so we need step 2. There are some guides about how to do it.

2) Convert that file to SSA, there are some utilities to do this (ssa2srt for example)

3) Translate your .ssa file with any text editor like notepad and such. You can try subcreator if you want to change timing (join some subtitles into one line, or break a long line into two and such), but that means another import/export step to/from subcreator...

4) Open your .ssa file with MaestroSBT, select submux and choose your settings (text color, size, font, etc.) You can even make a fake avi of your MPEG file by creating a .d2v with DVD2AVI (you do not need the audio since MaestroSBT does not use it) and the change the .d2v to .avi with VFPapi-Conv. Selecting that AVI in "preview", you can edit the position and some other things of your subtitles very acurately since you will see exactly how they will appear in the screen.

5) When you are satisfied, generate the subtitles and mux them with submux (run submux with no options to see what you can use. Remember that -C option generates CVD subtitles instead of SVCD standard, because some player accept only CVD. I think you can use both CVD and SVCD subs in the same file with no problems)

6) Do not forget to send syour subtitles to some sites like divxsubtitles.net (http://divxsubtitles.net ) or DivXStation's SubScene sub-site (http://subscene.com/) or DivX SubTitles World (http://www.subtitles.cz/) for the rest of us to share your efforts... :)

[ArieBK]

tanks for the answer.

are the sub's i create with this way are burn into the video ?

[Pko]

Well, they are multiplexed in the video, but remain switchable. If you want "burned-in" subtitles (that are allways viewed with any player), you have a few options; I think (not sure) that there is a dll to include .ssa subtitles in avisynth, and certainly there is one in Virtual Dub (is a plugin done by VD author himself). Also, MaestroSBT has a VD pluging to do exactly that; using maestrosbt has the advantage of being capable of being capable of using exact positioning etc., all the features MaestroSBT gives, but the disadvantage that you add one more program... see:

DVD on hard disk -> DVD2AVI gives .d2v
.d2v frameserves to vfapiconv codec that frameserves to virtualdub
MaestroSBT frameserves the subtitles to its VD plugin.

Virtual dub combines VFAPI_Conv and MaestroSB_T frameserves (and any other plugins you use) and frameserves again to the compressor (CCE or TMPGEnc or another one)

With so many steps, there is more chances of something going wrong and certainly there will be a huge calculations overhead that will make the process really slow... But it can be done, of course, and many people does it.

[ArieBK]

first ... i'm not new in this :sly:

now ... can you join #pcdvd channel on Efnet and talk with me there ?

what i'm planning to do is ...

1) Rip the dvd into my HDD
2) Rip the English Sub's
3) Translate it to other language
4) convert it to somthing i can put on a AVS script
5) "Feed" this script to CCE and encode it as svcd

btw ... my nick in #pcdvd is ... ArieBK or ArieBK-W (id you see this one .. msg this nick)

tanks :cool: