DVD Subtitles Craziness

The DVD subtitles are encoded in a RLE (Run Length Encoding - the most simple compressing technique) format, with a palette of colors and transparency levels. You probably thought that subtitles were just simple text saved into DVDs, right? Wrong, they are bitmaps. Ж:-/

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