permanent subtitle question

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made a backup yesterday with dvd2svcd and i forgott to check make images. this shouldnt have ben a problem if i hadnt decided that i want subtitiles as well. i heard it can be tricky to get them to work on a standalone player so i thought i stick to permanent. i done this once before and it worked fine.
first question: is the permanent subtitles in dvd2svcd bitmap based subtitles? (just checking)
second question: vobsub doesnt play bitmap based subtitles so i cant get them to work on the computer, right or wrong.
third question since i forgotted to put images on, whats the easiest program to use; making an image to get subs since i have the bitmap files and the tq&res file!
fourth: if i wanna use vcdeasy114 then is it possible by just copying the sub folder into one of the folders in the routh (iso files) tab

help me im a newb
:o

[Edit by DDogg - edited out noob post title :) read (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51632)]

[smiller667]

First off, I assume you are talking about an svcd conversion with svcd-style subs?

If you selected subtitles, d2s should have have muxed them into the video, even though you didn't select to make images. Look at the log file or at the filenames of the encoded video to see if there is a subtitle muxing step. If so, use e.g. vcdeasy to obtain your images. If they haven't been muxed, use winsubmux to multiplex your subtitles into your video before proceeding. I haven't been using d2s in ages, there might be away to do a recovery, select images and to resume, but somebody else would have to answer that question.

Permanent subtitles become an integral part of the video. There is no way to add them after encoding the video, they are integrated during encoding (using the subtitling plugin). Selectable subtitles have to be multiplexed into the video stream after encoding. Copying a sub folder into the svcd folder hierarchy won't work.

Vobsub does support bmp-based subs, otherwise it couldn't play idx/sub-style subtitles. It just doesn't support submux-style script/bmp subtitles.

Good luck.

Steve

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i never explain anything fully understandable, maybe that post was a disaster.
never mind.

tanks for youre advice! yes i was talking about svcd or a vcd conversion.
and now im going to try to follow them.