put LB subtitles in black bars on 4:3 TV?

[mycatsnameisbernie]

I am encoding a letterbox (1.78) video with subtitles, to store on my iPod, which will eventually be watched on a 4x3 TV.

In HB I use the "iPod High-Rez" preset. This produces a 640x368 video with subtitles near the bottom. What I would really like is 640x480, with black bars at top and bottom, and with the subtitles (at least partially) in the bottom black bar.

I tried entering 480 into the "Height" box, but that stretches the video.

I saw in the Anamorphic PAR web page a reference to a "-l 480" CLI option, but that didn't seem to have any effect.

Is there any way to make this happen?

Thanks for the help!

[rhester]

Requested before, but not likely to happen (as requested).

However, if you rip as 4:3 content without autocropping and keep the entire image, you might get lucky and have the burned-in subtitles appear in the black area (but this will be hit or miss).

Rodney

[royone]

Don't keep the entire image, just set the bottom crop to zero. The others won't buy you any real estate for your subtitles.