playing avi file with subtitle in standalone divx player

[weeleong87]

I burned this AVI file with the SRT subs together with the same file name. I played it in a standalone divx player. video and audio works fine. However, subtitle does not come up. Can any one help me with this without re-encoding it to another file. I thought that burnng the subs and the avi file together in the same root will be ok already. Kindly advise. Thanks

[Baldrick]

which dvd player?

you can try use avisub and make a.divx with switchable subtitles that should work on divx certified dvd players.

[mats.hogberg]

What does your player manual have to say about subtitle support?
On my player, I have to first select the subtitle file (.srt) then the AVI to make it play with subtitles.

/Mats

[weeleong87]

it supports srt. i am using a jvc player. so i can just burn it together with the sub and the video in the same root dir?

[mats.hogberg]

i can just burn it together with the sub and the video in the same root dir?

That's how these things usually works. Keep your AVI and subtitle file names short (max 8 chars + extension) and without spaces and odd characters.

/Mats

[weeleong87]

that really works. thanks a lot man! but can i change the colour of the subtitlle from yellow to white?

[mats.hogberg]

If it's a .srt file, it contains no info on typeface, size and color. These things are entirely up to the app rendering it. The DVD player in your case.

/Mats

[weeleong87]

hi again, my dvd player manual writes that it supports .sub. however, i am unable to play this sub. any one know what is wrong. how do i convert?

[mats.hogberg]

sub like in .idx/.sub or just a .sub (text based)? I'm pretty confident when a player says it can handle .sub, it's the text based variety. Open it in Notepad - is it readable text, or just gibberish?

/Mats

[weeleong87]

its the idx/sub. its the gibberish type. So i need to convert?

[mats.hogberg]

Yes. OCR to text .srt with SubRip.

/mats

[weeleong87]

ok.thanks..tat was fast!

[jman98]

sub like in .idx/.sub or just a .sub (text based)? I'm pretty confident when a player says it can handle .sub, it's the text based variety. Open it in Notepad - is it readable text, or just gibberish?

/Mats

My limited experience is that Mats is correct about this. Unfortunately, there are several different type of subtitle formats that use .sub as the identifier and they aren't compatible. Subrip's format, which produces idx files, is most common but those aren't text based. My Philips DVP-642 supposed supports .sub, but it definitely won't play SubRip sub files. I'm sure when the manual says that my player supports sub it means some kind of text based sub format, not SubRip's format. SRT works fine on my player, so I use that.

[weeleong87]

but i only have .sub files. how to i get it to be converted to srt in that case?

[mats.hogberg]

I think it will be hard, if at all possible. If i understand sub/idx right, the actual subtitles are in the .sub file, and the timing in the .idx
If you don't have the .idx, you're pretty SOL.
Try to find the subtitle for your video in .srt format, or in a complete .sub/.idx pair.

/Mats

[weeleong87]

I did have the sub/idx pair. however, i find it hard to use the subrip. I just keep pressing ok for veri long and its still onli less than 30percent. So any simplier solution?

[mats.hogberg]

If you can't find the subs in .srt format somewhere, OCR-ing with SubRip is the only way AFAIK. But you really shouldn't have to identify each character more than once.

/Mats

[weeleong87]

Can teach me how to do that. I do not really get what it means by identifying the characters..

[mats.hogberg]

First time subrip comes across something it thinks is a character, it shows you that, and asks you to type it. This is repeated for all new characters. Pretty soon, you've taught SubRip all characters there is, and it can churn on on its own.

/Mats

[Ingolf]

which dvd player?

you can try use avisub and make a.divx with switchable subtitles that should work on divx certified dvd players.

Thank you for this tip. I just put 3 subtitles in a small clip, and it worked perfect on my standalone mp4 players (medion and 'Harman Kardon HS 500')

So i tried it on a 1½ hour video clip i have, with 1, 2 and 3 subtitles, and in all cases i get this error:



Any idea to what is wrong?

Both clips are in XviD format. Tried with 6chn (ac3), and normal stereo sound (mp3), and i get the same error

I have tried the standard solution making a disc like this

movie.avi
movie.srt

and that works on all players i have tried on. But i need to include 2 subtitles, so if i change the structure to

movie.avi
movie.uk.srt
movie.se.srt

it will only work on my old mp4 player (medion), and not my new hdmi mp4 player ('Harman Kardon HS 500')

Is there another filename structure that i should use, or can i fix the problem with AviSub somehow?

Thanks for all your help