Subitile w/fast recompress in virtualdub with haali?

[kruuth]

Just wondering if someone has done this in some way. When I encode with canopus I get the subtitles and whatnot. Same for tmpgenc. The little haali logo doesn't come up with virtualdubmod however. I was wondering if there was some way to quickly lay subtitles w/o having to go through a total recompress.

[guns1inger]

If oyu mean hard subs embedded in the video, then no. You are changing the video, therefore oyu have to re-encode.

[kruuth]

Dang, that's a shame. I was figuring that there was a way to just have the video play out really fast to another file and have the subs laid over it.

[celtic_druid]

TMPGEnc and Canopus would be loading the file via dshow (Haali's splitter is a dshow filter). VDub loads files via VfW. You could use AVISynth to frameserve (directshowsource()) or AVISynth with VSFilter to add the subs.

As said, still requires recompression, but you can have the video set to fast recompress vs. using VDub to add subs which requires full processing.

[guns1inger]

fast recompress is still a re-encode, the only difference is that the video colour space isn't converted to RGB on the way through (although it will if you use any vdub filters, and you will have to use full processing mode)

[kruuth]

So it there any sort of way to quickly lay subs over a video?

[celtic_druid]

Use softsubs. That way they get rendered over the video in realtime during playback.

Hard subbing, as already pointed out numerous times requires recompressing, which if you want quality at a decent size, takes time.

[guns1inger]

What are you playing this back on ?

If on a PC, use VLC or media player classic - both can use softsubs.

If it is for a Divx player, convert the subs to .srt format (if they aren't already), give them the same name as the avi file, and put them both on the disc. The player should then read them.