VOB Subtitles Burned into .avi

[Xonk]

I've got some .avis I'd like to get onto my iPod, just with some VOB Subtitles burned into them. Doing some research on the forums, I've seen it mentioned that I need to use the preset DVD mpeg2enc to get them burned in. I'm having a lot of trouble getting this to work.

Though I have them selected under filters: (VOB Subtitles checked, 0, Burn) and the .idx selected with the Load subs option, the resulting .DVD didn't have any titles. They were there when I previewed it, though. Also, I'm not even sure what to do with the files I get. I have a .DVD folder with VIDEO_TS files, I've got a .mpg, .mpa, and .mpv also. An additional problem is that though I specified the same output size of pixels, encoding to the DVD gave me black stripes at the top and bottom, thus shrinking the video vertically.

Any ideas what I did wrong and what I can do to fix it?

[rumplestiltskin]

The subtitles ffmpegX expects to see are ".srt" files. Many times you may find them here:

http://divxsubtitles.net/

There are also tools for extracting the subtitles to .srt format but, frankly, I've found them pretty miserable.

Others will no doubt voice other opinions.

[Xonk]

What about all of those other posts I found (like this and this)? I looked on that database but couldn't find .srts for the video I have. I just wish there was subrip or some other OCR type program so I could easily convert it myself.

[rumplestiltskin]

There is D-Subtitler.

[Case]

What about all of those other posts I found (like this and this)?

Did you set Decode with mplayer in the Options tab?
Because the burning of idx/sub subtitles with mpeg2enc works for me.

I'm not even sure what to do with the files I get.

Use the .mpg file as source file to convert again with the iPod preset.