Remove subtitles from .avi

[Comrie19]

How do I remove subtitles from .avi video?

[redwudz]

You would need to provide more information for a adequate answer.

What sort of subtitles? I'm guessing they are permanently burned into the video. If so, you really can't remove them, except by covering them up or cropping them out.

If you drop the file into MediaInfo, it may tell you the format of the video. AVI is just the container name and covers dozens of formats.

[Comrie19]

This is what I get from MediaInfo

General
Complete name : E:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Videos\DVD\I Am Sam (2001).avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 707 MiB
Duration : 2h 12mn
Overall bit rate : 747 Kbps
Movie name : NEW.Title1.DVDRip
Director : Administrator
Writing application : Lavf51.19.0
Original source form/Name : NEW

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 2h 12mn
Bit rate : 670 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 386 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.103
Stream size : 634 MiB (90%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 2h 12mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 64.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 60.5 MiB (9%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)

[guns1inger]

Open the video in a player like VCL or The KM Player. Play with the subtitle settings. If you cannot turn the subtitles off then they are permanently part of the image. This leaves you with either blurring them out (ugly) or losing part of the image through cropping (could be a lot of the image, depending on how the subs were done).

My suggestion ?

Go back and rip the original DVD without the subs, and then encode to AVI.

[Comrie19]

Looks like they are permanently there. Thanks for your help.