Subtiltes and two audio streams

[Amerzone]

Well, you have helped me a lot with my other questions about subtitles in the thread http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28548 so may I ask a few more things:

1. I encoded Chicken Run (PAL 1:1.85) and I tweaked, with the help of the dvd2svcd display window, the permanent subs to show out of the movie. If I play the final mpeg with Zoom or WinDVD at my PC, the subs appear ok. However, in my 4:3 Sony Wega TV, the second line of the subs doesn't fit in the 4:3 full frame and appears half chopped. Could perhaps someone explain why this happens?

2. Is there any easy way to have the permanent subs at their original position without having to re-encode the whole movie again? Can this be done by using the "crash recover" feature, perhaps?

3. I included both english and greek audio streams. It works perfectly in my standalone Pioneer DV-535 and also with WinDVD 4 at my PC. However, if I try the final muxed mpeg with Zoom or BSPlayer, there is no audio and I don't have a way to select any of the two streams. I guess these players are not capable of playing multi-audio mpegs, or what?

TIA

[smiller667]

re Q1: This is due to overscan ... depending on your TV set, a certain amount of the image is cropped and thus invisible. If your subs are very close to the border of the frame, they are likely to be cropped, at least for 2-line subs.
The amount of overscan can sometimes be adjusted in the service menu of a TV set.

re Q2: You will have to do the encoding step again as the subs are hard-coded and a part of the video, but you can reuse the converted audio and extracted subs.

[Amerzone]

Thanks for the reply. FYI, meanwhile Blight (the fabulous Zoom Player developer) has also answered my third question: it seems that the Microsoft Mpeg2 Splitter DS filter cannot cope with multi-audio mpeg's.