Embedding .sub into an AVI

[rumplestiltskin]

ffmpegX will permit me to enbed a subtitle file in the ".srt" format into an AVI. The problem I have is that the subtitles that accompanied an AVI I have are in ".sub" format. Sub2Srt fails to recognize the file and the app dies.

Any OSX apps that will help me accomplish this task (embed the sub into the AVI or convert the .sub to a .srt)?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[WhoisGeorgeBush]

Depending on what type the .sub file is there is lots of answers sometimes is a simple matter of renaming the .sub files to srt and loadin them in ffmpegX
However if its like the one i encountered it contains no text but graphics and some kind of timeline reference. If you open it with a text editor and see crap (nothing you can recognize as subtitle text), then you may be out of luck however one user (BeardFan) did send the forum this:
If you have an avi movie with separate idx/sub you could build an mkv out of them like this

mkvmerge -o output.mkv input.avi input.idx

Now you can reencode this mkv to avi with hardsubs. Just use a mencoder profile and check the Vob Subtitles box in the filters tab and select burn.

This will produce an avi with the idx/sub subtitles burned in the movie. It works fine for movies with standard resolutions (640x480 or 720x400). If your source movie has a different size, you have to reencode it to one of these standard resolutions before merging it into the mkv.

If you do succed in doing this you will have to use ffmpegX to convert it back to avi
Good luck and let me know how you get on.

[SERBIAN]

http://www.mpeg2works.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=174

[nepenthes]

How do I go about extracting the subtitles for an MKV file?