DVD2SVCD and "see through" subtitles

[xmlguy]

Hi,

I've had this problem on a few dvd's (NTSC, R1) I've tried to encode to SVCD.

What happens is when I encode, one set of subtitles comes out fine (ie, normal speech) and other ones come out which dont have any body (ie, thought/direct translation) - so they appear see through (all you see is the outline).

Has anyone ever seen this before? Or better yet, found a working way of fixing it? (without loading up mspaint and starting to colour in the subs!)

Thanks,

[xmlguy]

*bump* :)

[smiller667]

Hi,

did you try editing the palette settings in the "Subtitles and Colours" window which appears before you begin ripping?

Steve

NB: I haven't done this myself for multiple subs in a single conversion.

[xmlguy]

thanks for the reply.

yep I tried that, even with 'debug' colours ie a very bright colour for each option to see if I could work around it, but it never seemed to work.
Is there a way to use an alternative subripping program or something similar?

thanks,

[Venom_IL]

if so, try creating only the mpg with D2S and applying the subtitles with guides such as this

http://divxstation.com/article.asp?aId=90

[Nick]

Can you rip the subs to a text file with SubRip?
If so, you could try adding them as an external stream - an option given when you press to Go button in the conversion tab.