how to get subtitles that are not on DVD

hello all, ok what i mean is that i want to convert the lord of the rings dvd into SVCD but the dvd i got here(australia PAL)does not have spanish subtitles on it and off course no spanish Audio. How can i put spanish subs on my SVCD? Also is there any way to put spanish track also? I hate the dvd we get here 90% of them only have english audio and some other useless subs that are not used in Aus at all. Please help asap. iwill be very greatfull. thanks in Advance.

There's no way for you to get Spanish audio, and it's unlikely you'll be able to get spanish subs. You might do a search for a subtitle translator or the like, but as I've never heard of such a thing, it's unlikely that one exists. You'll lose the automation of DVD2SVCD if you do get your own subs though, and you'll have to do all (or most) of the steps manually.

Hi UltimateDBZ, Thanks for the instant reply. I have just dounloaded spanish subs one in microDVD format and the other in subrip format from a site but Iam not quite sure how to incorporate them with my SVCD. I can do manual work if I have some instructions? Thanks.

Not my area of expertise ;) We'll need a subs expert, and somebody who really knows how dvd2svcd ticks in order to incorporate these new subs, and then proceed with the remaining conversion steps.

Any subs experts out there please help.

my tried and tested solution 

thanks Patjen, I give it a go now. I have just logged on today , so sorry could not answer you before. i'll post the results here as soon as I finished. Thanks again.

ok this didnt work for me. May be I didnt have the proper subs downloaded and also this will permanent subs but I also want to have english subs that are allready on DVD. Is there a place to download subs for this movie? and can i put those subs with english subs as selectable subs? which kind of subs I should be looking for to download? Anyone else got some other ways of doing this. Should i post this thread to the Subs forum? Anyone please help. really appreciate it. Any experts plase. Thanks.

Well titvs, I too always used permanent subs but I recently had two dvd's that were giving me troubles and were not displaying the subs. Each time a subtitle was shown, the movie frame blacked out and I could see only the text. I came upon your suggestion using the vobsub or rather textsub filter and that worked for these 2 movies. I did not say I would be using this method all the time from now on.. :-) But it's a nice trick in case permanent subs simply won't work... On the other hand, I got the impression that the subtitles seemed crisper and cleaner to read but offcourse they don't look really natural. But hey, at least we can understand the complete dialogs hehe. titvs, would you maybe know why some of these movies show the subs after extraction as bitmaps of such pixel size that they take up the entire screen ? Greetz,

Thanks titvs, I will give your method a try during the weekend(when I have time from work and Uni) and post my results here. But can you please do me another favour. Can you please give me some instructions to work with submux instead of winsubmux. Because since the new vertion of dvd2svcd uses new winsubmux instead of submux I dint get subs so I changed the dvd2svcd config file to use submux instead and it worked.I dont know the reason but winsubmux dont work for me. But I dont know the proper commands for submux because dvd2svcd automates it. i will be really thankfull. Thanks again. Thanks Patjen for giving me initial details and also letting me know how to convert to diff formats.