XViD-ing a movie with hard coded subtitles

tb2000 · 21st July 2004, 20:29

Hi,
It's my first post here. I searched to see if I could find anything on this but to no avail.
I've got a French movie (Taxi) with hard coded English subtitles but can't seem to get AutoGK to compress it properly. I originally copied the contents from a friends DVD to my HD before I found out about this program (AutoGK).

I can perfectly compress the film into one CD with XViD, MP3 with excellent quality (the DVD's originally got AC3 2.0 audio which I changed to MP3) as it's only 1 hour 26 mins. The problem is this: whenever it compresses the movie it chops the bottom of the subtitles off. I've looked in the log file and AutoGK does indeed see it as 4:3 (because of the hard-coded subs) but when it compresses it it makes it widescreen. The film is still at the correct aspect ratio but as I say it cuts off the bottom couple of rows of pixels of the subs off which means the tails on letters such as y and g etc. are missing. Infact come to think of it it might have chopped a little bit off of the top of the film image but i'm not sure about this.

It's not a major problem but I was just wondering if it's possible to get it to encode at full screen (4:3) as opposed to saying it's 4:3 and encoding it at 16:9.

Many thanks in advance,
Tony

jggimi · 21st July 2004, 20:48

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

Interesting problem, tb. Unfortunately, we don't provide help for content that you do not own yourself. Click on this announcement from the Newbie forum regarding Rule 6.

Thread closed.

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tb2000 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1	XViD-ing a movie with hard coded subtitles Hi, It's my first post here. I searched to see if I could find anything on this but to no avail. I've got a French movie (Taxi) with hard coded English subtitles but can't seem to get AutoGK to compress it properly. I originally copied the contents from a friends DVD to my HD before I found out about this program (AutoGK). I can perfectly compress the film into one CD with XViD, MP3 with excellent quality (the DVD's originally got AC3 2.0 audio which I changed to MP3) as it's only 1 hour 26 mins. The problem is this: whenever it compresses the movie it chops the bottom of the subtitles off. I've looked in the log file and AutoGK does indeed see it as 4:3 (because of the hard-coded subs) but when it compresses it it makes it widescreen. The film is still at the correct aspect ratio but as I say it cuts off the bottom couple of rows of pixels of the subs off which means the tails on letters such as y and g etc. are missing. Infact come to think of it it might have chopped a little bit off of the top of the film image but i'm not sure about this. It's not a major problem but I was just wondering if it's possible to get it to encode at full screen (4:3) as opposed to saying it's 4:3 and encoding it at 16:9. Many thanks in advance, Tony

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jggimi Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The NW corner of Lake Erie Posts: 5,552	Hello, and welcome to the forum. Interesting problem, tb. Unfortunately, we don't provide help for content that you do not own yourself. Click on this announcement from the Newbie forum regarding Rule 6. Thread closed. __________________ "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased." Kehlog Albran, The Profit