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 :D I could finally get around this problem.
I just turned off PBC on my Philips DVD player and now it shows SVCD subtitles.
Try it and tell me if it worked for you too.

rebawest posted 2003 Mar 25

Selectable Subtitles

Instead of SVCD subtitles, try CVD subtitles. More standalone supports CVD subtitles. You DO NOT need to author/re-author your MPEG to the CVD standard to use CVD subtitles (MPEG2 480x480 is fine).
Stay away from Nero, make sure that PBC is enabled in VCDEasy (normally this is what you want but disable if it works for you), and you have to hit the subtitle button on your remote to cycle through the subtitles.

Vejita-sama posted 2003 Mar 26

Selectable Subtitles

Philips, among a few others, created the SVCD standard which included SVCD stlye subs so its easy to see why they would provide better support for their own style of subs. As far as I know, ALL Phillips DVD players only support SVCD subs or no subs at all, none support CVD style subs. The CVD standard was basically incorporated into the SVCD standard and so CVD style subs are also supported by some players, and in fact CVD style is more widely supported than SVCD style subs, but overall soft encoded subtitle support in SVCDs is very bad. Those relatively few players which support it often have various bugs.

Basically, you will have better luck with CVD style subs than SVCD style unless you own a Philips player. Also I-Author can only create CVD style subs, so if it worked for you in the past, than stick with that style.

All of the previous steps listed to create subs are accurate and that really is all there is to it. In WinSubMux, try setting it to CVD style, if it doesnt work try SVCD style, if it doesnt work than its probably just your dvd player.

I really hate Nero for authoring SVCDs but this is one area where it excels over VCDImager. VCDImager does seem to have some problems with subtitle support. You will actually have better luck with Nero in this regard.

adam posted 2003 Mar 28

Selectable Subtitles

> Piccoro posted 2003 Mar 28 17:09
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> I didnt read all of the posts here but what guides have you guys used?
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> I have used this guide and it works well and yes i used nero to burn the image.http://www.wideopenwest.com/~cdhmri5/sub.html[]

The above selectable subtitle guide link is dead, it's now located at http://members.cox.net/oehrli/sub.html

Pied-Piper posted 2003 Jun 24

Selectable Subtitles

Enabling pbc in vcdeasy will have the result, that there are no more subtitles visible. It has nothing to do with cvd or real svcd-subtitles. Pbc is the Problem and it seems to be a bog in vcdimager.

In an mail archive i have found the following message:

From: "Koburg Cornelius (SF/ESW) *" <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ilgimmy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:30 AM
Subject: OGT Subtitles with VCDImager 0.7.12

I encountered the same problem, that you are mentioning. Subs did not work on my DVD-player (Grundig GDV 130) although the mpeg streams burned with Nero and WinOnCD were showing subtitles. I did a lot of experiments with the source code of VCDImager and finally found out, that locating the files 'tracks.svd' and 'psd.svd' physically at a position just before the mpeg stream resolves the problem - at least with my player. Now I can have subtitles together with a comfortable menu structure! I will sent this result to the author of VCDImager in order to resolve the problem in the next release.