HOW: 2 subtitles DISPLAYED AT THE SAME TIME in set top player

[newburn3]

Hi,

I would like to know how to embed a subtitle into a DVD movie so that the movie will have 2 sets of subtitles DISPLAYED AT THE SAME TIME in the ordinary player (set top player): one is permanent subtitle, the other subtitle is selectable from the menu in the remote control.
What software is the best for this?


Thanks

[paran0id]

I don't know much aboutu this, but I've heard about something
called 'forced subtitles', like the elvish in the LOTR trilogy..

A search in these forums show up many hits.. Try it out..

[LigH]

It is technically impossible to overlay more than one selectable subtitle stream at the same time.

The only way to show 2 subtitles is: One subtitle stream is rendered (as pixels) into the video, and will always be visible (cannot be removed anymore). The second is overlayed as subpicture.

[newburn3]

Thanks

LigH
That's what I want (I mentioned in my orginal posting that I want one PERMANENT subtitle plus another that is selectable)
How to do it ? (how to render the subtitle as pixels into the video)?

With PowerDVD I can have 2 subtitles at the same time. Now I want something similar when I use set top player

[LigH]

You would have to re-encode the whole video stream. For example:

- rip the DVD to your harddisk (if you just need the main movie, use the IFO mode)
- rip the subtitles you want to include (e.g. with VobSub's VSRip - see SourceForge project 'guliverkli')
- create an AviSynth script which just decodes the video, but does not resize, and overlays the permanent subtitles
- convert the selectable subtitles into a format which your favourite authoring tool can import
- load that AviSynth script into an MPEG-2 video encoder
- encode the video DVD-compliantly
- use an authoring tool to build a new DVD

That's quite about it...

If you are not too shocked about the quite heavy work to do, then someone may tell you the details if you could not find out for yourself from so many guides about Gordian Knot, DVD2SVCD, or other similar topics (how to build an AviSynth script that decodes MPEG-2 video and overlays subtitles from VobSub).

[newburn3]

many thanks.