anime to .vob?

i was just wonderin what program i could use to convert anime with subs. to a .vob format so i can watch on my dvd player that dosnt cut off the subs. ive tryed 2 different programs: xilisoft video converter, and WinAVIVideoConverter but both of them cut the subs out

The problem with hard-subbed anime is that, being intended for viewing on PC screens mostly, it completely ignores the TV safe-titling areas. The safe titling area is a standard boundary on TV pictures outside of which it is considered bad to place titles and text because it could be cut off by TV overscan (TV pictures are 'cropped' for display, so you actually lose as much as ~10% of the width and height of the picture). So when you convert hard-subbed fansub material for display on a TV, the edges get cropped and you often lose part of the subtitles. To correct for this, you need an MPEG-2/.VOB encoder that allows you to resize the video but leave an extra 5-10% black border that, when viewed on a TV, will be hidden in the overscan area. This will push the subs back towards the safe titling area and, in most cases, allow you to still read them. I use TMPGEnc's custom resize option to achieve this. You may find your software already has a similar option in there somewhere too.

can i get a walk threw on doing this?

Simply resize the video output to a resolution that's smaller than the original output. I use TMPEG Express and usually set it to a resolution of 525*300, youre results may vary.

Just to make it clearer than >>4 - the output video's overall size has to be 720*486, the standard D1 resolution for DVD, but your picture needs to be smaller than that to leave a blank border in the overscan area (I find ~648*438 (a 10% reduction in width and height) is adequate). I can't say how to do this in other software, but in TMPGEnc you just put a check in the resizing box when running through the encoding wizard, and set that resolution as a custom resize - it puts the black border in to ensure the output is still at D1 resolution.