Hardcode subtitles with .avi while retaining .avi format?

[Kitteridge]

I have an avi with a corresponding .srt file but my DVD player, although it plays .avi fine, does not recognise the subtitle file.

I would like to hardcode the subtitles, whilst keeping the .avi format.

I haven't worked out a way of doing this yet - I don't want to encode to SVCD because I always get major A/V sync problems whilst using ffmpeg X (but not with MPEG2 works).

Obviously, the audio can passthrough, but the video would need encoding - could you suggest a suitable codec?

Movie info: DIVX 528x288 12bpp 25 fps 681.4kbps audio 48000


Thanks for any ideas.

[major]

Reencode your AVI as AVI mpeg-4 (mencoder) by loading the SRT subtitles in the Filters tab.