Weird Subtitle Problem

Hi All, Decied to have another shot at the PAL R4 version of Bad Company which has been a problem project for quite some time. The problem being that all non forced subtitles in VTS 1 (movie VTS) apart from the first two which are english, only show a black outline of the subtitle which is next to impossible to read. I had Eyes and Gabest look into this problem personally and the changes made unfortunately resulted in no change. The one thing I noticed was that the physical bitmap files of all the dud subtitle streams that are demuxed via DoItFast4U using vobsub only show the text outline whereas the bitmaps from the working subtitle streams are solid letters. Eye's assured me this was nothing to worry about as the colour codes are set via the SST file. Anyway, I decided to give it another try now that RA has gone public and there has been some time for programs to mature a little. Unfortunately I still get the exact same problem, and this time it has friends :rolleyes: . The same subtitle problem exists, and I made the decision I'd use RA to replace thse streams with dummy files as really, being an english only speaking person how often am I going to need to have working Russian, Dutch or Greek subtitles. Still I did make the attempt to import the subtitle streams in manually as this actually fixed the same problem for the "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" I did a while back, and even tried copying the subtitle colors from the original IFO in IFOedit but none of this yeilded any results. So I went on and authoured as I usually do, and updated the IFO's with IFOupdate 0.72 as per normal. However when it came time to play my project in PowerDVD XP the movie would pause at the point where you select the menu language at the very start. It'd pause once before the language selection menu, and twice after you selected your menu. I burnt a test DVD-RW and tried it im my set top and the same thing happened. At first I thought this must've been something to do with IFOupdate 0.72 so I tried using IFEedit to get VTS sectors on my second attempt and though I had nailed it as the DVD then played fine in PowerDVD XP, but when I tried to play it on the set top it locked the DVD player up fully. I had to unplug the set top player as it wouldn't respond to any command given from the remote control or front panel. Never seen a DVD do that before :confused: . Anyway, just wondering if anybody has any insights to these issues? Should just point out that this is seemingly a movie specific problem, as I've never seen it's like in any of the other 20 odd projects I've done using the Big 3 (with exception to the My Big Fat Greek Wedding project which was overcome by manually importing the subtitle streams).

I think it might have something to do with how Reauthorist imports still-pictures. Read in another thread that they should be imported as slideshows instead of stillshow as it is stated in the guides.

LOL! Great use of punnery.

Ah well, gives me an excuse to get some bigger HDD's doesn't it. Those 30GB drives were only good for one project a piece.

palle_k is right. Stills are imported as stillshow. This does exactly what is says ofcourse, it's a static picture with no end time. When there's no specific end action defined the black picture will stay on untill you manually press the play button on your dvd player. Funny thing is that most guides propagate that you set these stills to still show. What I always do is import them as slide show and set the time of my slide to the same value as stated in the original ifo. This works all the time. I know from experience that you otherwise have the problem you're mentioning with this title.

I too have resolved issues in the past by using slide show instead of still show. default duration for slide show is outrageously long though, so i always have to change that.

Yes that's correct, the time is really long, I was wondering if I can change it to 1/2 sec by default??? Hey Eyes don't you ever sleep :D

That kind of problems (drop frame) is spared to us PAL users hehe. But It would be nice if it was possible. If I do not sleep enough I've no attitude at all I guess, but this is going offtopic anyway :p

Thanks for the tips guys :D ! Nobody wants to buy a secondhand IBA hard disk do they? Hmm, didn't think so :p ...

it's a little far to come and pick it up anyway ;)