Subtitles on a hardware player (LG)

[Kangiten]

Hello everyone

Here is my problem: I want to back up a TV series boxset I've just bought using Divx or Xvid. My hardware player is a LG RH 177 (Hard disk recorder) which is Divx Certified and listed on the Divx.com website as compatible player.
This recorder supports srt subtitles if they have the same name as the video files. Unfortunately, this system means that I can only have one subtitle per file but I want to have two (English and French).
The only solution apparently is to use xsubs.

Now, I tried Avisub, it did create the file and the subtitle tracks are recognized (the player indicates 1/2 or 2/2 when I press the Subtitle button); the problem is that the subtitles are not displayed on the screen. I then tried Sub2Divx but the program gives me an error (DOS box saying that divxmux.exe cannot be used as an external program). So I'm stuck.

Has anyone been able to display multiple subtitles on LG players/recorders and if so, how? Am I doing something wrong with Avisub? Is there a way to fix the Sub2Divx error so I can see if subtitles work with this one?

I'll take any information; I've been stuck on this for a while and it really annoys me now.

[handyguy]

Not sure but you could try something funky like,
film.avi
film.french.srt
film.english.srt

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