How to add permanent subtitles with AutoGK and convert to AVI DivX or XviD

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

Hi-

ByShine · Member Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Location: Canada

It works, but for some reason the video goes out of order and it's like playing the video in fastforward

matthewn4444 · Member Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Location: Canada

Sometimes it does that, I found that if you reconvert it (like the divx converter) it would be in tact.

xXNateXx · Member Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Location: Canada

hi im trying to convert a xvid movie to a divx movie so that it can play on my ps3. i have tested already that divx movies work on it but xvid does not. so i downloaded autogk and it gave me an error saying my audio was unsupported. i been reading in here about avi-mux. i have extracted the audio but when trying to just get the video the sound is still there. any way to just get the video? thanks my email is npirocchi@hotmail.com if you would like to get a hold of me that way.

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

Hi-

No one wants to e-mail you.

matthewn4444 · Member Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Location: Canada

I have an error after using a .sub file as the subs. The error says that it can't be openned by AviSynth, I used MaesroSBT to get the .sub file.

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

AutoGK doesn't accept that kind of SUB file. Use the original SSA file you opened in MaestroSBT.

blacksheep998 · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Location: United States

I cant get styled subtitles to work. I have the same problem was when I try to burn them to DVD format where it displays all the scripting on-screen. Anyone know a way to fix this?

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

Convert them to SSA format (SubResynch, included in the VobSub package). AutoGK accepts SSA, and SSA subs can be converted to whatever your DVD authoring program accepts.

blacksheep998 · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Location: United States

Subresync cant open the srt file. No error message or anything, it just cant open it.

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

Then there's something very wrong with your SRT file; corrupt or wrong format or something. Are you downloading these SRTs, or creating them yourself, or what? If it's a fairly common movie, you can most likely find another SRT of that same movie from a subtitle site.

blacksheep998 · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Location: United States

They're styled subs from an anime. I ripped them out of an mkv. When fansub groups release a series most of them include both styled and unstyled subtitles. But recently some of the groups have stopped releasing unstyled subs so I cant burn these series to DVD format. And I dont think subs will be easy to find for this series, its kind of rare.

Heres a clip from the srt file. As you can see they're text subtitles with comments that make the subs display in different colors, fonts and placement on the screen. When burned to DVD all the comments display on screen as text. I dont think its possable to burn the styled softsubs to DVD format, but I would like to be able to hardcode the subs into the video so they'll display properly on screen.

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00:00:57,220 --> 00:01:05,560
9,,Style5,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,And find myself listening closely\nfor the radiance of the stars

10
00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:14,940
10,,Style5,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,I'll keep running, even barefooted,\nbecause I can't give this up

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00:01:14,940 --> 00:01:20,740
11,,Style5,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,And like the moon\nin the blue sky,

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00:01:20,740 --> 00:01:29,170
12,,Style5,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,I want to embrace my transience\nand reach out my hand

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00:01:34,130 --> 00:01:39,040
13,,Style8,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,{\c&H0&\pos(147,86)}The world---

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00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,040
14,,Style8,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,{\c&H0&\pos(215,163)}is not beautiful.

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00:01:42,270 --> 00:01:46,000
15,,Style9,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,{\pos(140,35)}Prologue

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16,,Style10,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,{\pos(263,87)}In the Middle of the Desert · a

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00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,310
17,,Style2,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,It's impossible to start\na journey like this.

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00:02:33,310 --> 00:02:35,380
18,,Style2,Comment,0000,0000,0000,,If we leave now,\nwe can still make it,

I would like to add that if someone knows a way to convert these to plain text subs, besides manually going through every srt file line by line and changing it, I'd gladly settle for that

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

As you know, that's not a standard SRT file. The styled ones I've seen have a separate .style file along with them, and all the style commands are in that. As you also probably know, a standard SRT looks like this:

blacksheep998 · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Location: United States

Thanks for the help anyway. I'll keep working on it and post here if I figure anything out.

I know that there has to be some way to hardcode styled subtitles, because the fansub groups have been doing it for years. I just have no idea what tools they use to do it.

But if I still cant get that to work then one idea I had was to use some kind of text editor that can handle 'find all' and 'replace all' commands (If anybody knows of one please let me know) So I could just open the srt with that and have it find and remove the styling for me. I tried doing it manually, took 40 minutes for one episode. Wont be trying that again.

Having it display as unstyled isnt the ideal solution for me, in a couple places they get really messed up becasue there will be several words on-screen at once and in the styled version they are neatly translated. After converting to unstyled the words just jumble up at the bottom of the screen. But at least its watchable. As it is now the subtitles are basically unusable with DVD players.

mats.hogberg · Modded Morloc Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Location: Sweden (PAL)

.ssa (SubStation Alpha) is styled, and and VirtualDub's Subtitler (http://www.virtualdub.org/downloads/subtitler-2_4.zip) filter can render them.

/Mats
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blacksheep998 · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Location: United States

THANKS! That plus the fact that I just discovered that mkvextract can extract the subtitles in ssa format solved it! Huge Thanks!

stopthemind · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Netherlands

Just want to say thanks for the tip of AutoGK. It's great and the log files are also very interesting. This one is compressing!

Mo
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stopthemind · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Netherlands

Problem with decompressed .avi files.

Computer shuts down when opening an uncompressed .avi video - not just after conversion from .flv to .avi - at that time there's no problem opening the video. Only when the .avi has been used to be encoded by AGK. And again, it's not the .avi video compressed by AGK that's a problem, but the first decompressed version of the .avi instead. Then suddenly explorer.exe shows an error and shuts the computer down. This is not the case before AGK has used the same .avi for encoding. Am I clear?

I tried to change the settings of IE. I run IE7. I also even tried DEP settings and make an exception for iexplorer.exe - no way.

What could it be? It's not that important as I delete this uncompressed .avi from the machine anyhow when I'm done with subtitling. But it is an annoyance because I've got to delete the entire file including the 'problematic' .avi and make another empty conversion file every time I've converted a video into this format.

Mo
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mats.hogberg · Modded Morloc Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Location: Sweden (PAL)

halobender · Member Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Location: United States

I am having an issue with audio sync. I have followed this tutorial to the T.

I have 2 avi files part 1 and part 2 of said movie.

I have idx and sub files for both parts of said movie.

Like I said I followed the post completely using the idx files. I set up job 1 for part 1 of the movie, then set up part 2 of the movie.

Part 2 came out great and has embeded subs and no audio sync issues. However part 1, after 5 attempts still has a 2-3 second audio sync issue. The sound file embeded into the avi is AC3 but does not start sound until 13 seconds into the original file, yet on the newly encoded subs version it starts a couple of seconds earlier.

Is there something I can do to fix this as watching a movie with audio sync issues is something I am not willing to do?

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

Hi-

RainGoddess · Member Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Location: Philippines

I have this new problem, whenever i press "start" and the virtualdubmod runs, a new window appears and says that virtualdubmod has crashed and it says that there is a breakthrough error in "neVo"..

It happens all the time and I already uninstalled and re-installed it.

leenman · Member Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: United States

I've (finally) gotten some subtitles to show in an avi file. One of the files did a strange thing where it seemed to have overlapping subtitles. If I click disable subtitles during playback, then one of them goes away and it looks good.

Then I wanted to experiment with just one chapter of the same file to see if I could figure it out (using shorter file). But for the life of me I can't get subtitles to appear on this chapter.

So I have two questions: How did I manage to get two overlapping subtitles playing and will autogk produce subtitles on just one chapter?

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

Hi-

leenman · Member Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: United States

manono · Member Joined: 28 Aug 2003

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