Putting subtitles below (outside) a wide-screen DivX movie to convert to VCDs

[sobel]

I have a wide-screen DivX movie with subtitles. I can play it perfectly with mplayerc + VobSub. Now I want to convert it to 2 VCDs to play on my VCD Player (no SVCD support). I've successfully done with VirtualDub + TextSub 2.23 and frameserve the stream to TMPGEnc. The problem is I don't want the subtitles to be inside the movie but below it (in the black extra area as result of preserving aspect ratio, 576x320 => within 352x288 PAL). I wish I could add TextSub as a filter to TMPGEnc! And I hope there is a way to do this so that I don't have to make an mpg file without subtitles first then load it into VirtualDup and do it again for second time but with subtitles. Any ideas. Thanks in advance.

[ihgl]

Originally posted by sobel
I wish I could add TextSub as a filter to TMPGEnc! And I hope there is a way to do this so that I don't have to make an mpg file without subtitles first then load it into VirtualDup and do it again for second time but with subtitles. Any ideas. Thanks in advance.

Well,an Avisynthscript like this would do the job. The values for Bicubic Resize and AddBorders are quite wrong off course. Them you have to figure out yourselv. But a script like this goes perfectly along with TmpgEnc, and maybe it gives you an idea of what can be done. "textsub.vdf" goes with VobSub and you can read more about Avisynth here in the forum and download/install - if you do not have it already. An SSA-file for the subs can easily be edited in notepad so the subs can be placed anywhere.

LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
LoadPlugin("C:\VirtualDub\plugins\textsub.vdf")
AVISource("C:\BENHUR~1.AVI")
ConvertToYUY2()
BicubicResize(480,280,0.00,0.75)
AddBorders(0,148,0,148)
TextSub("C:\test.ssa")