About subtitles

zan · Post by **zan** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:17 pm

Hello

I have a Xvid movie and I want to create a DVD from it, to watch it on standalone DVD Player. I'm using
MovieFactory 6. I have used the option to auto add chapters on every 3 minutes and also I added subtitle file
.srt format. Everything is working fine except the subtitle, which is displayed only in the first chapter. How to
display subtitle in whole movie?

zan · Post by **zan** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:25 pm

I have found the problem. DVD MovieFactory 6 does not support unicode subtitles.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:23 am

Firstly you need to convert the Xvid movie to MPEG2 - you may be able to use the MovieFactory "Fast Export" option though it may be a bit slow. It is better to use a third party program to do the conversion - there are plenty of free ones if you Google.

After conversion import the new MPG file into Moviefactory and now attach your subtitle.srt file.

zan · Post by **zan** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:02 pm

I try your sugestion, I converted the movie from Xvid to MPEG2 and added in MovieFactory but problem remains the same i.e. it works fine with ANSI subtitle but not with unicode subtitle. I need to use unicode because there are cyrilic characters in the subtitle.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:19 am

Don't know if these might convert the subtitles to the other format but they are FREE and so worth a try.

Subtitle workshop - also - DivXLand Media Subtitler

zan · Post by **zan** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:33 pm

@sjj1805

Do you know what is "UNICODE" ?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:27 am

Unicode provides a unique number for every character,
no matter what the platform,
no matter what the program,
no matter what the language.

Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough characters: for example, the European Union alone requires several different encodings to cover all its languages. Even for a single language like English no single encoding was adequate for all the letters, punctuation, and technical symbols in common use.

These encoding systems also conflict with one another. That is, two encodings can use the same number for two different characters, or use different numbers for the same character. Any given computer (especially servers) needs to support many different encodings; yet whenever data is passed between different encodings or platforms, that data always runs the risk of corruption.
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The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced /səˈrɪlɪk/; also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is actually a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by six Slavic national languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian) as well as non-Slavic (Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Tajik of the former Soviet Union, and Mongolian). It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past. Not all letters in the Cyrillic alphabet are used in every language that is written with it.

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:57 am

I know for US, VideoStudio, MovieFactory, as well as the others, do not allow Unicode, just true-type fonts.

I tried using the Character Map built into the Windows systems, selecting and copy/paste some unicode characters into DVDMF & VS. It simply would not display the unicode characters..

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:17 am

I think that when he refers to ANSI (American National Standards Institute) he means ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

zan · Post by **zan** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:51 pm

This is simple example with windows notepad. If I save my subtitle file with ANSI encoding, all cyrilic characters are lost, but DVD MovieFactory 6 works fine with this file. However, if I save the file with unicode encoding, all cyrilic characters are there (in the file), but DVD MovieFactory do not show subtitle, or it shows subtitle only in the first chapter.

PidTel · Post by **PidTel** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:01 pm

zan wrote:I have used the option to auto add chapters on every 3 minutes

Do the subtitles work correctly without the chapters?

Tom

zan · Post by **zan** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:28 pm

Yes, subtitles work correctly without chapters. Do you have any idea?