[Leo Guertler]

Dear all,

I never figured out completely whether it is the uneven y-coordinate or the height (uneven number) that creates the problem of the distortion of horizontal lines.

Then – yes, that’s a bug in Encore, it probably does not have this bug if the internal function to create subs is used.

Then – there is another nasty bug. If you import already prepared graphics into Encore (CS5) it throws away one color. This is not the case if you use the internal function.

Therefor I prepared the whole dvd with Encore and later replaced all substreams. There are guides for this on the net – it won’t change the dvd structure, menu, or whatever.

best wishes
leo

[Leo Guertler]

Dear Kerim,

yes, you’re right. This is indeed not the pattern I expected. Your example does not make any sense at all. However, you can try to adjust all y coordinates to an even Y coordinate (no need to adjust the pictures, this was never necessary in my case).

The Y coordinate adjustment worked for *every* of my problems and it matches the statements in spumux. Probably your case is directly related to FAB and the way FAB organizes subs.

However, I still think it must be related to the Y coordinates. If you convert to avi and some mpeg4 codec there is sometimes a problem if the y height cannot be divided by 4, 8 or something like that. Maybe you can experiment with that idea.

best wishes and good luck,
leo

[Leo Guertler]

Dear Kerim,

sorry for my late answer. Yes I found the root of the problem – please read my small post here:

https://www.anicca-vijja.de/2012/03/how-to-produce-subtitles-especially-for-right-to-left-languages-hebrew-arabic-farsi/

-> please see the last section of the post. You can also read the manual to spumux, it covers this topic shortly (but one has to read carefully to identify it).

As I do not use CS6 but CS5, I still work with the solution outlined above. Not an automatic solution, but it works quite well. If you follow the rules in my post + the working procedure, you get as good as looking subs as it is possible within the restrictions of dvd subs.

If you have any questions, please send me a mail (see webpage above contact).

best,
leo