Divx AVI + AC3 + SRT, how do I get them all together?

[bizzybody]

I used the commandline OGM demuxer to demux some OGM files. For some unknown reason the person who made these chose OGM when neither the video nor audio used an ogg codec!

So now I have the Divx AVI, AC3 audio and SRT subtitle files. How do I mux them all together into an AVI without doing any reprocessing of the video or audio. I do NOT want hard subs.

I have PCs with Vista and XP. They have the latest CCCP installed. If I must, I can drag out my old G3 CRT iMac with OS X 10.4.11.

I've checked the AC3 files, they're not VBR, yet AVI-Mux GUI refuses to mux these to AVI, it'll only allow Matroska. It doesn't do VBR AC3 into AVI. Perhaps it's mis-identifying them as VBR?

I've tried AVIdemux but it refuses to add subtitles without doing processing on the video. I found on the AVIdemux Wiki a supposed how to for doing soft subs, but you cannot select a subtitle file without setting the video output to something other than Copy. I tried setting it to MP4, then going to the Video filters subtitler and selecting the SRT then changing it back to Copy, but it ignored the SRT file when muxing the files.

I have a DVD player which has no problem playing Divx or Xvid AVI files with PCM, MP3, MPEG2 or AC3 audio tracks and it understands SRT subtitles, it'll even display them if they're on the disc with the AVI file with the same name, which is why I want to do this to these OGM file.

Is there a program that can mux Divx AVI, AC3 (VBR and CBR) and SRT all at once?

[Baldrick]

You might have to fix/repair the ac3 so avimuxgui identify it correct, try ac3fixgui.


But if now your dvd player supports external subs then why not just mux the video and audio using avidemux and put the sub file in same folder.

[Midzuki]

Perhaps it's mis-identifying them as VBR?

Quite probably. Regarding MP2 audio, AVI-Mux GUI identifies as VBR
the files created with toolame, but if you encode them with twolame,
they will be correctly perceived as CBR.

[bizzybody]

Ran them through ac3fix, it found one bad frame in one ac3 file. AVImux GUI still will only allow Matroska output.

AC3fix GUI doesn't work in Vista, it does nothing when the process button is clicked (I had ac3fix and the GUI in the same folder as the AC3 files) so I made a batch file to run them through AC3fix.

I want the subtitles muxed in because having external subs is a bit like playing an un-flattened MOV on Windows, you always need to keep both files together.

Any other AC3 fixing utils that'll put them into whichever form the picky AVImux GUI demands so it'll output an AVI? How about a no-reprocessing MKV to AVI converter?

Edit: I decided to try going to Matroska with AVImux GUI then seeing if VirtualDub would convert to AVI, but all AVImux GUI will do with my source files is wrap the AC3 up as an MKA audio file, leaving out the AVI and SRT files. NEXT! Going to put the video and audio together with VirtuaDub then see if there's a subtitle util that can put them in the AVI's.