Help to put subtitles in a avi file

[aarelovich]

Hello:

This is the problem: I've got a .avi on one hand and a .srt on the otherhand correspondig to the avi. The Avi is without audio so I don't need any sort of audio editing. I simply want to make the subtitles permanent to the video. ¿How can I do this?

Thanks

[ZippyP.]

Read on: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=272736

[aarelovich]

hello:

The problem I have is this: It turns out that when I begin to encode with the virtualdub at second 10 of one of the episodes the image freezes and the rest of the video becomes that frozen image. I tried to transform the video to mpeg using TMPGE Plus but I has the exact same problem: the mpg file has from second 10 on only that image.

Can anyone tell me how I can solve my problem.

Thanks

[mats.hogberg]

Most probably, there's a bad / undecodable frame (or frames) at that point in the source file. And that you don't notice it when playing, means nothing. Scan the source (AVI?) with VirtualDub mp3 freeze.
As you don't have audio to deal with, it's fairly easy to cut ourt the bad spots. There's a guide sowhere here on that subject too.

/Mats

[aarelovich]

Ok I downloaded the program. How do I "scan" it?

Thanks for any help

[mats.hogberg]

Read here or here.

/Mats

[aarelovich]

Ok. Now I've done that but the program tells me that there are no bad frames. I've tried using avifix and I've got the same result. What shoud I do?

[Jeremiah58]

This is the guide which worked for me:

http://www.divxland.org/permanentsubtitling.htm

if you wish to try it.

[mats.hogberg]

Well, last resort is to get the latest version of whatever video codec is used in the AVI, and give it another go. Or maybe try ffdshow? Has cured this kind of problems before, when an AVI wont convert, but no bad frames is found. Last, last resort is to try and find a better source file.

/Mats

[ZippyP.]

If you know where the bad frames are located (hint: it's where the vidoe froze) then just use Vdub to cut out that part of the video. Set the in and out points, cut the selected part, make sure audio and video are set to "direct stream copy", save avi. You will only be able to cut at "Key" frames this way however.

[aarelovich]

I've solved the problem but it was so easy I couldn't believe it. Basically what I wanted to do was to add subtitles. That's when the problem first appeared in Virtualdub. So what I did is I used the divx converter and created a .divx and that was the file I used to filter with Virtualdub therefore obtaining the avi again.

But thanks anyway for all the help