No subtiles

[pepsimaxx]

I did an encode of a single chapter encode from Big Mommas House. In the "subtitle" tab I selected "permanent subtitles" and chose my native language.

I then hit "go" and watched the process. I was asked to select "subtitles" and did so. During the video encoding with TPMGEnc I saw the subtitles in the preview window but after I burned the .bin/.cue with Nero there were no subtitles on the TV.

I then checked the folder to which DVD2SVCD had extracted them to and found them to be correct.

How did they dissapear? I'm not sure which logs to post so let me know what u need.

P.S. I've been using DVD2SVCD 1.0.9 build 2 and TPMGEnc 2.54.37.135 on Windows 98 2nd Edition.

[gerti67]

Hi pepsimaxx,

if you play the burned SVCDs with PowerDVD or WinDVD, do you see the subtitles then?

If so, could it be possible that you have placed the subtitles within the black borders of the movie and you now watch the SVCD on a 16:9 TV set so you can't see them anymore because the TV automatically stretches the picture so that the borders are not visible anymore?

Greetings,
Gerti

[pepsimaxx]

Hi Gerti,

Thanks 4 ur reply. I encoded the chapter in "16:9 (borders added, encoded as 4:3)" and my TV-set is a 4:3.

When playing the burned SVCD with WinDVD there are no subtitles and that is also the case when I try to mount the .cue file.

I then tried to play the file "Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_PAL.mpv" with Zoom Player then subtitles were present and 100% OK but no sound.

I'm a bit puzzled here :confused:

[gerti67]

Hi again,

hmm, this is pretty weird indeed. If you really chose permanent subs then it is absolutely impossible that the MPV file contains the subs and the muxed MPG and the authored images not because the subs are hard-encoded into the movie then. This would only be possible if you chose CVD or SVCD style subs and something went wrong with the muxing step.

I can only think of a scenario with some messed up DVD2SVCD file pathes and you have done the same chapter before without subs and then with subs afterwards but bbMPEG still uses the MPV file from the previous encode.

So you can try to completely deinstall and reinstall the DVD2SVCD bundle and make sure to delete all the files from within the directories.

That's the only possible cause of this error I guess - otherwise I'm at the end of my rope - sorry.

I did a quick test with a little chapter and permanent subs with TMPGEnc 2.54.37.135 and all went fine.

And it's quite clear that there's no sound when playing the MPV file it contains only the video stream - the audio stream will be muxed into it later during the bbMPEG muxing stage - so no worries about that. ;)

Hope that helps,
Gerti

[pepsimaxx]

Thanks 4 your efforts Gerti. I think a reinstallation of my OS is required since Zone Alarm won’t let Norton Antivirus launch e-mail protection anymore.

I’m gonna Ghost my drive, reinstall DVD2SVCD and try again.

On another note. Just for the sake of it I tried to encode the ”Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_PAL.mpv” and the encoded_audio.wav in TMPGEnc and the result was an .mpg that contained video, audio and subtitles all in synch. It seems to be a problem with the muxing.

I’ll try again on a fresh install and see how it goes.