Need Help on XviD4PSP (Conversion of MKV to AVI, subtitles SPU codec)

[gallen16]

Really stumped over this problem

I am trying to convert an MKV file to AVI using Xvid4PSP.
This file has "burned-in" subtitles using the SPU codec (please attached snapshot of codec information from VLC player)

When I used Xvid4PSP to convert the video, I obtained an AVI file but without the subtitles.
This was regardless of whether I used latest beta version Xvid4PSP or the current stable version 5.0.

I have tried to use MKVExtractGUI2 to extract out the subtitles and add it as a separate subtitle file during the conversion but I obtained an error message (see other attached file).

Does anyone know how to convert such an MKV file to AVI with the subtitles?

Appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.

[manono]

If you can't open your subtitle file in Notepad and read it then you can't use TextSub with it. What kind of a subtitle file is it? If it's IDX/SUB, then you use VobSub to open it in the script, rather than TextSub as in your current script. I have no idea what the SPU codec is.

[gallen16]

If you can't open your subtitle file in Notepad and read it then you can't use TextSub with it. What kind of a subtitle file is it? If it's IDX/SUB, then you use VobSub to open it in the script, rather than TextSub as in your current script. I have no idea what the SPU codec is.

hi, thanks for the reply, this is what I see from the media information of XviD4PSP.
I have used MKVExtractGUI2 to extract out the subtitles into Idx/Sub files.

I have downloaded VobSub as per your advice.
How should I go about using this program for Xvid4PSP?

Text
ID : 3
Format : VobSub
Codec ID : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on DVDs
Language : Chinese

[manono]

You shouldn't have had to download anything as whatever you need has already been installed for you to be able to use TextSub. Just change the TextSub line in the script to VobSub and see what happens.