I downloaded the source code in C++ to DVDAuthor to find out exactly what color dat/rgb files should look like. I solved the DVDAuthor problem with the colors, no thanks to the incorrect documentation combined with the lack of example dat/rgb files. I took your advice and tried Muxman & DVDSubEdit and they required manual intervention that breaks my automation mold. By trial and error while looking at the preview you may find out which one of the black color should be white (rather light grey, do not use 100% white for subtitles).Īfter you fixed one subtitle, do not forget to apply the modification to all subtitles (Edit -> Apply last modification to all), and then save (File -> Save all modifications). On the right side you can see the four colors of the subtitle. Open the VOB files of your main feature in DVDSubEdit. I recommend to fix the subtitle colors after authoring because it is faster to fix than to find out what's causing the mismatch. If it happens the result are rare stutters (although that is not the issue here regarding subtitle colors).

Run imgBurn to burn the VOBS to an actual DVDįirst, if you can, I would highly suggest to use Muxman instead of DVDauthor, as the muxing of DVDauthor can be dodgy.

Run dvdauthor to create VOB files, insert chapter marks based on dvd.xml file.

Run ffmpeg to convert the new mp4 with subtitles to an mpg DVD file with subtitles copied.

Run ffmpeg to Add a New 'DVD Subtitle' Stream to an existing mp4 based on the idx/sub files.

Here is the process that I am going through. The SUB file is where are the lines of text and their colors are stored as bitmaps.

Editing the color settings in the IDX file has no effect and the colors generated by Subtitle Creator are always the same in the IDX no matter what colors I choose in the GUI.

My latest attempt involves Subtitle Creator to create an IDX & SUB file based on the SRT file.

It seems that no matter what colors I choose for text & border, they look fine in VLC as an mpg but all black when I play the VIDEO_TS in a DVD player or play the DVD/VIDEO_TS.IFO file from the hard drive using VLC. I have tried a couple of Authoring tools and DVD Author was my choice because I can run it from the command line, however it appears to be the heart of my problem. I have been fighting with this problem for 3 weeks now.

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