Subtitles and more...

[dvddude279]

I have a couple of movies on .avi video. I wanted to convert them to a dvd format. So i downloaded VIDEO DVD MAKER. Now i want to add subtitles to them . So I tried DVD SANTA . But the trial version gives a DEMO VERSION message on the Movie whilst playing it. Now i ve downloaded some subtitles from some sites. Some of them are in the html format. Now please tell me how to convert these to .srt or whatever the subtitle format there is and how to put them on the dvd. Should i first put them on the .avi and then convert it to dvd format or otherwise. I have tried vobsuB. Something less complicated will do ..

Please also tell me some sites to download subtitles from.

Thank You.

[mats.hogberg]

No subtitles come in HTML format. .txt, possibly, that may be displayed in your browser. Don't use those. For DVD authoring with subs, use DVDAuthorGUI or DVD-Lab Pro or GUI for DVDAuthor, all of which support .srt subtitle import.

/Mats

[Bjs]

Wrong there mate , they do when user's post the text ... I have been to several subtitle site's where subtitles have been offered in html format ... I spend alot of time around the web than most .

Now for the other :

To convert these html's is a pain , but I use visualsubsync to generate a new subtitle file in ass format .

Open mpeg in visualsubsync , allow it to create a new project file , and extract audio as wav .
You then proceed with locating the first point where the first subtitle appears ... hopefully it is a spoken part .
From here you mark in and out for each following subtitle till all have had there required time placements corrected .

Then save out in srt format .

Visualsubsync will convert srt to ass ... subtitle workshop for all other formats .

You will need srt2sup if ifoedit is to be used as dvd video muxer

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But if all that's to much then your left with two options :

1: Keep looking , or
2: Buy it on dvd ... you get the subtitles thrown in ... lol

[dvddude279]

so basically if i download subtitle workshop.... it will convert the .html ones to srt and then help me to add the subtitles to the movie in dvd format or .avi format.

nd please tell me some sites for downloading subtitles.

[mats.hogberg]

Splitting hairs.
-Var är Henry?
-Han åkte in till stan för att köpa några saker på apoteket.
is indeed 2 lines from a movie, but that doesn't make it any kind of subtitle that you download.
There are a few std formats: ass, ssa, srt, idx/sub to name the most common.
HTML isn't.

/Mats

[kschang]

Never heard of "HTML" format for subs any way.

[Jeremiah58]

nd please tell me some sites for downloading subtitles.

http://www.subbiee.com/
http://subtitles.images.o2.cz
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en
http://titles.box.sk/

[dvddude279]

now i downloaded subtitle workshop and put the subtitles to my .avi movie.. only that it got extracted to a folder in my comp as a "Windows Media Audio/Video playlist" type.it has the subtitles and it only plays in windows media player. is this WMV?? How do i convert this to .avi or maybe dvd format ..

[dvddude279]

help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Baldrick]

DVD:
convertxtodvd, add the avi and the subtitle file(save as srt in subtitle workshop) and convert.

[AlanHK]

No subtitles come in HTML format. .txt, possibly, that may be displayed in your browser. Don't use those.

I've seen some that were really SRT, just named as HTML, perhaps because the host only allowed that file type. In that case, just rename with .srt suffix.

It's worth looking inside the popular formats (SRT, SSA, SUB) with a text editor, you can recognise such mislabelling and sometimes fix problems and corruptions.

[dvddude279]

i tried convertxtodvd .. it was good.. but it had a big watermark in the middle of the movie.. if u cud tell me a free software which is good for convertin .avi to dvd and is fast..

[Jeremiah58]

if u cud tell me a free software which is good for convertin .avi to dvd and is fast..

DivxToDVD is a freeware version of VSO CovertXtoDVD.
No subtitle support though.