DVD with Subtitles

[guy with a stick]

Hi, just got a .avi movie with subtitles apart, how can I join them together and turn them to DVD?

[mats.hogberg]

Encode AVI to DVD specs MPG (see mpg encoders in the tools section)
What to do with the subs depend on A) What format they are in and B) what authoring app you use to author your DVD.

/Mats

[Baldrick]

or use divxtodvd, it supports subs.

[guy with a stick]

The subs file is .SRT
I tried to turn the file to MPEG2 using TMPEnc Plus but it tells me that the process will take over 7 hrs (It's a 1 1/2 hr movie, 1.16 GB in size).
Is there a faster way?

[guy with a stick]

forgot to mention:
I'm using DVD Lab

[mats.hogberg]

The subs file is .SRT
I tried to turn the file to MPEG2 using TMPEnc Plus but it tells me that the process will take over 7 hrs (It's a 1 1/2 hr movie, 1.16 GB in size).
Is there a faster way?

DVDLab reads .srt subs fine. No need to do anything further.
Depending on settings when encoding, 7 hrs for 1.5 hrs of video, avi to mpg isn't all that much - But as you can use a rather high bitrate, use single pass and "moderate" motion search precision. CCE is a noticeably faster encoder if you still find TMPGEnc too slow - but just let it run over night.
When you have your mpg, just load it in DVDLab, import the srt subs and author.

/Mats

[discogail]

This worked like a charm for me------->
How to add permanent subtitle to a video with virtualdubmod--->
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=272736&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

[mats.hogberg]

..for permanent subs, yes, but that's hardly anything we'd like on a DVD, is it?

/Mats

[FulciLives]

..for permanent subs, yes, but that's hardly anything we'd like on a DVD, is it?

/Mats

I do permanent subs all the time because I prefer to use TMPGEnc DVD Author as my authoring software and it does not support selectable subs.

This has never bothered me because if I need the subs to understand the movie ... I need the subs ... so they might as well be "hard" subs.

I understand that hard subs can "tax" the MPEG encoder but I've never noticed a lapse in quality when doing hard subs.

Also if you do hard subs you don't have to do "text" subs where you have to decode the subs then correct the decoding errors etc. which is helpfull when working with DVD rips.

Also if doing PAL to NTSC or vice versa it is much easier to get the sub timing correct if you do hard subs. I often do PAL to NTSC and you "burn in" the subs first then do the FPS change ... subs are always in sync this way.

I do hard subs with AviSynth instead of VirtualDub but then again I'm advanced LOL

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[mats.hogberg]

Each to his own, obviously! !

/Mats