subtitles

[macuser1960]

I want to make an AVI with subtitles.

In the manual it says.....

Click preview and see if your subtitles are in Sync.
I can click as many times as i want but i see no subs....only the movie.
I use the correct sub file. .srt

Does this preview work?

Or do the subs get muxed in at the end?

Thanx

[Case]

I want to make an AVI with subtitles.

Wouldn't it be easier to view these AVIs in VLC, which will use external subtitles by default? If you play foo.avi in VLC, then VLC will look for foo.srt to overlay on top of the video. No time lost encoding, no quality lost in encoding.

In the manual it says..... Click preview and see if your subtitles are in Sync. I can click as many times as i want but i see no subs....only the movie.

'Burning' subtitles (permanently) into the video requires the mencoder engine. Did you use that?
The Preview button to use is the one in the lower right of the Filters tab. Did you use that?

[tomlee59]

Regrettably there are two buttons labeled "Preview" that perform two different functions. As Case suggested, you need to make sure that the Preview button you select is the one at the bottom of the Filters pane, with the choice of specifying the starting time for the preview.

The other preview button is used during encoding, to monitor its progress. If you aren't encoding, you can click on that preview button all day, and nothing will happen.

That said, Case's suggestion is best -- don't re-encode the movie at all; save time and preserve quality. Just put the srt file alongside the avi, and players will (almost) always do the right thing. Much better than burning the subs into the movie.

[macuser1960]

Ok guys,

That was really stupid of me. I did'nt see the the preview button in the Filters tab.
I can see them now.
But now here's another problem, the subs i'm using are probably made by a french guy.
FfmpegX does not accept the .srt. Is there any way to let the program except it.
I need those subs because there are no other ones then these.

It gives sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token (+ some things that are not on my keyboard).
Probably a french layout?

Can i use another textencoding? And if so, wich one?

When i'm watching the movie file and the .srt in VLC i can see them both.

Thanx in advance

[domiin]

I don't know what causes your error, but you could use a subtitle editor, e.g. the excellent Jubler, to open the subtitle file (and experiment with encodings to make sure all characters display correctly) and then save it with the encoding of your choice.

Hope this helps.