I have an AVI for the movie [REC]. It's in Spanish, so I have subtitles for it in a SUB file and an IDX file. I don't know if they're 2 separate methods of getting subtitles, but that's what I have. 2 questions:
1. How do I use these subtitles when watching it on my PC?
2. (video and subtitle related) a. do I have to do anything special to an AVI to get it to play on a conventional DVD player if I burn it to a disc? Also, how do I get the subtitles to work when I do the aforementioned burning?
Media Player Classic and VLC support loading subtitles from files.
With Media Player Classic, when the video file is opened, drag and drop the subtitle file into the window and Media Player Classic will load it.
Do you know how I could convert it to a PSP or iPod format with the subtitles?
metalgear08 Wrote:I have an AVI for the movie [REC]. It's in Spanish, so I have subtitles for it in a SUB file and an IDX file. I don't know if they're 2 separate methods of getting subtitles, but that's what I have. 2 questions:
1. How do I use these subtitles when watching it on my PC?
.IDX and .SUB is the vobsub format. Image sequences extracted out of DVDs. The .IDX stores the timecodes and the positions of the image sequences, which are in the .SUB.
For playing it, if you name both of them the same name as the video file, players like MPC will automatically load them. If your player doesn't... well... then you will have to hardsub the subs into the video, or re-mux the video to include the subtitles in a seperate stream. (Or get a better media player)
metalgear08 Wrote:2. (video and subtitle related) a. do I have to do anything special to an AVI to get it to play on a conventional DVD player if I burn it to a disc? Also, how do I get the subtitles to work when I do the aforementioned burning?
You mean for a DVD player that supports DivX/XviD?
You will have to hardsub the subtitles into the video. So you will need to re-encode the thing using the vobsub filter.
What program could I use to hardcode the .IDX and .SUB into my .AVI? I want to convert it to PSP format so me and my friend can watch it on my living room TV using my PSP video out.
I'd just use a DirectShow filter, like DirectVobSub which automatically puts the subtitles in the video, then encode with an encoder which accepts a DirectShow source (ie XviD4PSP).
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I'd just use a DirectShow filter, like DirectVobSub which automatically puts the subtitles in the video, then encode with an encoder which accepts a DirectShow source (ie XviD4PSP).
What steps do I go about to do that? I have the CCCP codec pack, so I can play damn near anything in Windows Media Player. What exactly do I need to install and where can I find it?
Sorry, for all the questions, I'm really n00bish at this :/
Do you have DirectVobSub installed?
By the way, the .idx and .sub files should have the same name as the video, for example:
video.avi
video.idx
video.sub
metalgear08 Wrote:ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I'd just use a DirectShow filter, like DirectVobSub which automatically puts the subtitles in the video, then encode with an encoder which accepts a DirectShow source (ie XviD4PSP).
What steps do I go about to do that? I have the CCCP codec pack, so I can play damn near anything in Windows Media Player. What exactly do I need to install and where can I find it?
Sorry, for all the questions, I'm really n00bish at this :/
Firstly, you will need to get
vsfilter.
Open your avs file, and write right at the start of the file
Code:
LoadPlugin("the location of vsfilter.dll here") #example: LoadPlugin("C:\folder\vsfilter.dll")
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And at the end of your file
Code:
Vobsub("the location of your IDX file here") #example: Vobsub("C:\folder\subtitle.idx")
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Then save your avs file.
Load the .avs file into your favourite encoder GUI, like XviD4PSP or MeGUI. And encode it using your favourite settings (into Xvid or DivX, not h.264, since you want to play it on your DVD player).