Jumpy playback with subtitles ?!

Hi There,
I'm experiencing jittery / jumpy playback of my track with subtitles. My project has a coupe of tracks but only one has subtitles. I burned a test disk and found that on my Powerbook and DVD&TV set, they all play fine, but on a PC the subtitled track plays jittery (the others are fine).
In DVDSP simulation mode I get the same result. It's almost as if the track hesitates then jumps just before a new subtitle... especially if there is a lot of movement in the image. Playing the track from the DVDSP timeline does the same thing, but not as bad.
Any suggestions or solutions? Please?
Peter

hi peter
the problem of jittering happens most of times when we dont give
any stroke or outline to the texts.
so try these values for your subtitles
text colour white- opacity 15
outline 1-black-opacity 15
outline 2-black-opacity 15
try also with bold fonts and with bigger size .
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