Making Data DVD with AVi's + Subtitles

[culttvguy]

I have some DivX files that I downloaded and that I am going to burn to an RWdisc in data format.
With it came subtitle files. Do I have to use some special authoring program before burning to disc in order to get the subs to work,or do I just unzip it and put it on the disc with the divx file associated with it?

[BJ_M]

depends how you are going to play them and if a machine -- what machine

[culttvguy]

Sorry,yeah it's a Philips 5960/37 which plays divx discs.
thanks

[guns1inger]

If it isn't Divx Ultra certified then authoring isn't required. Just make sure your subs have the same name as the associated movie :

movie_1.avi
movie_1.srt

and burn as data

[redwudz]

And I put them both in a common folder.

[culttvguy]

Cool,I'll give that a go !

[guns1inger]

The Philips seems to be unusually picky about subtitles. I know my LG is happy if they have the same name. I just put all the movies and subs in the root of the disc and they play fine.

[DereX888]

any MPEG-4 capable dvd player (doesn't have to be "divx certified") is capable of playing subtitles with the movie, but it have to be text format (SRT is a common standard playable by all of them).

Some players will play subtitles automatically if the subtitle file name is the same as film file name. However those that don't, and the subtitle have to be loaded/selected manually, those have advantage, because you can have few different (languages or versions) subtitles for same movie

SRT and SMI are playable by all standalones (MPEG-4 capable).
However languages other than English are subject to player's font bank in its firmware (i.e. player without cyrillic letters will play subtitle, but the letters displayed won't be readable).


@gunslinger
Just reformat your subtitles from any of .txt formats (usually MicroDVD) to .srt (SubRip) and your player won't have any problem.
For English always select ANSI code.
For other languages make sure to select their apropiate ISO standard (instead of Windows).

[mats.hogberg]

any MPEG-4 capable dvd player (doesn't have to be "divx certified") is capable of playing subtitles with the movie, but it have to be text format (SRT is a common standard playable by all of them).
<snip>
SRT and SMI are playable by all standalones (MPEG-4 capable).

With all due respect, I think that's exaggerating. I can well imagine an AVI capable player without support for or both or one of .srt and/or .smi Most support .srt - SMI I have no idea, as I've never used it.

/Mats

[culttvguy]

Cool, it actually worked !! Just renamed the sub files(there were 3 of them .idx .sub and .srt ) to the same name as the avi file and dropped all 3 of them in with it.
Not sure if all 3 had to go in,but I put em all in anyway,and hey presto.

[guns1inger]

You may have overlapped languages. .srt is a simple text file, so it has minimal formatting and supports only one language at a time.

.sub/.idx supports multiple languages in a file.

[culttvguy]

yeah I noticed that when I went to turn on the subs,it said "01/09 English,so I guess there were multiple languages on there ! Got it working though,so I'm happy now !!

[DereX888]

any MPEG-4 capable dvd player (doesn't have to be "divx certified") is capable of playing subtitles with the movie, but it have to be text format (SRT is a common standard playable by all of them).
<snip>
SRT and SMI are playable by all standalones (MPEG-4 capable).

With all due respect, I think that's exaggerating. I can well imagine an AVI capable player without support for or both or one of .srt and/or .smi Most support .srt - SMI I have no idea, as I've never used it.

/Mats

yeah, I can imagine it too, but that doesn't change the fact that so far ALL of them do support .SRT and .SMI text subtitles.
If you find one that doesn't please LMK too