Problems with permanent subtitles (only black fields extract)

[SupUp]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with dvd2svcd and i'm using v. 1.2.2 build 1.

When I try to use permanent subtitles everything seems to be fine but it is not. When I select subtitlestream I have four different, none of them with any language defined - but that really isn't the problem. The problem is that only two of the subtitle streams show any text/sentences at start and when I try using the "next frame/subtitle" option it's the same. The result of this is, that if I select a subtitle stream that does not have any text showing, the extracted .bmp's is all black - no text showing - even though all the different "--100xxx.bmp" files have different filesize.
On my dvd player everything is fine and when I try extracting the subs using subrip there is no problem either ergo the bmp's are fine.

I tried replacing the empty bmp's from dvd2svcd with the one from subrip but when using subrip bmp's CCE seems to crash when trying to encode. Could this be because subrip bmp's are 32bit while dvd2svcd is 24bit?

Anyway, my question is... how can I solve this problem and make my svcd-encoding have permanent subs? (I would prefer not to use subrip at all for two reasons, first, it would be much easier just using dvd2svcd and second, subrips bmp's seems to be bigger (in image-size (width/length))then dvd2svcd.

Thanks in advance

Best Regards

supup

[guru1968]

maybe You've chosen wrong colors for the subs - e.g. all black?

Anyhow: did You check the avisynth script (especially any part with subs) in virtualdub?
- the avisynthsubtitler plugin does not like the BMPs from subrip!

The Problem is:
subrip saves the BMPs in indexed-color mode while the subtitle plugin only can handle RGB8-color mode BMPs.

You can within Photoshop define a Macro to convert Indexed-color to RGB8-color and aply this so-called 'action' to a whole set of pictures or even a directory.

As for the sizes of the pictures:
with subrip you can set custom cropping and play around with the values, but it really does not matter at all if the BMPs are a bit smaller or larger...

I also did have problems with the sub BMPs extracted directly from D2S - although they weren't all black, but the palette was not correct either! Extracting the subs via subrip, converting the color mode via Photoshop gave me a perfect movie at the end :)

gr33tz,
guru