Is it possible to re-position subtitles?

[ignignot]

I like watching movies with subtitles on so that I catch dialogue that I might otherwise miss. However, there is one attribute about them that irks me:

Given that most DVD's are widescreen, and most people are viewing them on 4:3 aspect ratio screens; it would make sense that the subtitles should spend most of their time in the black borders, and not over the film itself.

I know this is possible, as a few of them do this, thereby turning that black border into a useful space by allowing subtitle viewing without interfering with the actual movie. For some reason though, this is not the case 90-95% of the time.

So what I'm wondering is if there's any way to move those subtitles down into the depths of the black border where they belong?

[windtrader]

I do this using DVD2SVCD (DVD2DVD). You can get the info @Doom. The process strips off the subs and you can change the font, color palette, and locationon the output. There may be other ways but this one works for me.

[ignignot]

Thank you very much...

I wasn't able to find much info over @ Doom9, but after tinkering with the settings on DVD2SVCD, the sample output looks like it should come out properly.

However, it's been encoding w/ TMPGEnc for 8hrs, with still 4hrs left and who knows how many steps it still has after the encode...

Then I assume I'll have to do some re-authoring with DVDRemake in order to get the menus & extras back on? It's probably a lot more trouble than it's worth, but I'm going to keep going just to see if I can make it work.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT: Please feel free to tell me if I have done something wrong, and that only altering subtitles shouldn't require re-encoding, because this seems plausible and would be a big relief