vobsub: 2 sub-tracks, only 1st shown

[macolo]

hiho

i tried to rip star wars episode II from a german DVD. i'd like to keep the english sound track and to burn the german subtitle track into the avi file.

unfortunately, there are 2 german subtitle tracks: 1st is forced subtitles, second is normal caption letterbox. and i want both.

so i started vobsub 2.23 and excluded all subtitles except number 3 and 11 which are the two sub-tracks described above. vobsub created a .idx and a .sub (about 4megs)

i'm working with gordianknot 0.27 by the doom9 team. so i set "Select vobsub files" to the location of the .idx and .sub previously ripped with vobsub and left everything else as it was.

after having encoded the movie, only the forced caption number 11 showed up, number 3, normal captions, didn't seem to be there at all.

here you are a little quoting from my .idx file.

# Language index in use
langidx: 11

# Deutsch
id: de, index: 3
[..]
# Deutsch
id: de, index: 11
[..]

langidx: 11 is responsible for that mess, i guess, but what do i need to fix to have both subtitle tracks displayed, the forced, and the other1?

greets

macolo

[gabest]

You can't display two streams once. If 3 is the normal track then it must also contain the subtitles of 11. If not, make a copy of the idx/sub files, set langidx: 3 in the second and use two filters/plugins in vd/avisynth.

[macolo]

thank you very much for donating free support :)

i edited my .avs-scriptfile as follows:

#
# SUBTITLES
VobSub("V:\other\sub_de\VTS_01_1")
VobSub("V:\other\sub_de\VTS_01_0")

and in the first .idx subtitle-file i changed langidx: to 3

now it won't show not even one of the two tracks. im pretty clueless.

greets

macolo

[gabest]

Strange... Do you have all these files there? Or did you only copy the idx?
V:\other\sub_de\VTS_01_0.idx
V:\other\sub_de\VTS_01_0.sub
V:\other\sub_de\VTS_01_1.idx
V:\other\sub_de\VTS_01_1.sub

[macolo]

hiho gabest

i have all the files exactly as you list them below. i have the two entries in the starwars avisynth script and i have set the langidx-variable in each .idx-file as you advised.

i have ripped the .subs directly from the DVD and excluded all the other subtitle-tracks. there's only track no 3 and 11 left. the timestamps and file position tags in the .idx seem to be set properly.
vobsub is able to identify both track 3 and 11.

are you sure that avisynth can handle two vobsub-plugins?

greets and thanks a lot for your help

macolo