A question concerning adding subtitles with VirtualDub

[penguinpoo]

I hope this is in the correct place, if not I'm sorry. Anyway.

I have an AVI file I want to burn to a DVD. The language is in japanese so I also have a seperate SSA file that goes with it. Now, I couldn't figure out how to make the subtitles work by just burning them on the DVD, so I decided to encode the subtitles directly onto the AVI file. I used VirtualDub 1.6.12 and the Sub Station Alpha v2.x/4.x subtitling plugin to do this. The problem is, that for every 1 minute of encoding the file grows about 1 GB in size. How can I encode the subtitles on the video without it turning into a 120 GB AVI file? Thanks in advance to anyone who has information that can help me.

[CoNS]

Hi penguinpoo. Please change the topic to a more informative title. (Forum rule #9). Thx, and good luck with your question...

[Razor88]

What codec did you choose for the movie?

[ai4spam]

It can be due to two reasons:
1) You're not setting the video compression, and it defaults to uncompressed. Just set some codec and its parameters (you may want to read about 2-pass compression if you want to get a specific size and good quality).
2) You're setting the audio compression wrong, to uncompressed PCM. That also tends to take up space. Use Lame or Fraunhoffer MP3.

[InuyashaSama]

Read last step from this guide (http://www.divxland.org/permanentsubtitling.php) to properly setup VirtualDub.

[penguinpoo]

Yup, I wasn't setting the video compression. Thanks for your help guys. :p