How to maintain the original positioning of Subtitles when creating a .srt file ?

[iparout]

Hi.

I just used OCR through Subrip to create an .srt subtitle file for the DVD I want to backup.

I wat the subtitles to load with DirectVobsub so I named the .srt file exactly as the .avi. When I playback the Movie, though, the subtitle positioning is not the one used in the DVD. For example, when there are credits in the lower part of the movie frame, the DVD normally shows the subtitles in the upper part of the screen, however DirectVobSub displays the .srt file on the lower part of the screen, no matter what.

I have found out that .sub files maintain the orientation of the original DVD however .srt files do not. Does anyone know how to fix that ?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. : I have also tried renaming the .ifo and .idx files to match the filename of the .avi and the .srt file but nothing changed.

[lamer_de]

srt files don't save infos about positioning. The .sub files are usually te vob stream, so all information is there (unless we talk about mircodvd subs, which have the ending .sub aswell, but these don't have position infos either). The only text based subtitle format I know of which allows subtitle positioning is ssa, but i fear you'd have to add this kind of information manually, as subrip doesn't seem to extract this information.

I haven't tried all these kinds of maestro etc subs, as i never use them. Maybe they can achieves this aswell?

EDIT: Have a look here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44225

Maybe subresync can help you aswell. Never tried it though.


CU,
lamer_de

[iparout]

Thanks a lot. I'll try and see how it goes.