Subtitle Question

[ron spencer]

My daughter's High School Musical 2 (English) has two forced subtitles when French is spoken a few times and when Spanish is spoken a few times. So there are 2 forced subtitles. Can AutoGK handle this...that is the encoding of TWO forced subtitles? One is easy, just choose it. If it cannot, is there a simple way to encode to XviD with these two forced subtitles?

thanks in advance

-rs

[setarip_old]

Hi!

I'm not a user of AutoGK, so I can't provide you with an answer.

I can, however, suggest that you may first have to determine the actual structure of the "forced" subtitles:

1) They may be true forced subtitles - meaning they are contained within the primary subtitle streams
A) The true forced subtitles, both French and Spanish, may appear in the primary English subtitle stream (I believe this is possible)
B) The French forced subtitles may appear in the French subtitle stream and the Spanish forced subtitles may appear in the Spanish subtitle stream

2) Rather than true forced subtitles, they may be separate (small) subtitle streams - either two separate streams or (I believe this is possible) one combined stream

You can use DVDSUbEdit to determine the actual structure, or you could just wing it and see what AutoGK generates ;>}

[ron spencer]

they appear during the english audio stream....pgcedit says they are forced....occur during the english stream. Perhaps just wing it...if anyone knows let me know

[setarip_old]

they appear during the english audio stream....That has nothing to do with which subtitle stream(s) they are contained in...

[manono]

Well, if they're true Forced Subs, as his description of what it says about them in PGCEdit seems to confirm, then he should be able to get them using AutoGK.

ron spencer, select the English subtitle stream that has them. In the Advanced Settings check the "Display Only Forced Subtitles" box. I'll assume you want to embed or burn the subs into the video, so don't check the "Use External Subs" box. Test in the Preview before doing the encoding, but it should work OK for you.

[ron spencer]

I will have to do a test encode when I get home from holidays....This will be interesting as I though AutoGK could only handle ONE sub. These are two FORCED subs, so I figured AutoGK would balk at two even if forced.