Add Subtitles to WMA/WMV

[amylee]

I want to encode subtitles to a Windows Media Audio/Video file, but these types of files do not work on VirtualDubMod. I would like to either change the file to AVI, or use a different encoder. Any suggestions ?

[Baldrick]

Try Virtualdubmpeg2 or the ordinary virtualdub with the wmv plugin, http://home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/index.html.

Or use xvid4psp, load the wmv, load the subtitle, choose avi under profile, convert.

[amylee]

Not working Apparently the file was in ASF format, which Microsoft no longer supports. Thanks for your help anyway If you have any other suggestions, please reply.

[poisondeathray]

If you can playback your file on your pc normally, you can usually frameserve using vsfilter and avisynth into an encoder of choice. For example, you can use vdub if you want to output avi types with DivX/XviD, or wmnicenc if you want to output wmv type files, or MeGUI if you want x264 encoded files (there are many other choices)

To decode WMV & WMA formats, you can install Windows media format SDK11, which will install the Windows DMO audio & video decoder. If you installed WMP11, it should already be installed on your system. This is preferred quality-wise over the ffdshow decoding for wmv type files

The .avs script might look something like this (you need to fix filenames, correct paths, and fps if different, use mediainfo to check)

DirectShowSource("C:\PATH\file.WMV", fps=23.976, audio=true)
TextSub("C:\PATH\subtitle.srt")