Opinions on good program for hard-subs?

[lostinlodos]

Any suggestions on good (non-mac) software to take a DVD rip (AVI, MPG, M4V, RMVB,any format, not an issue) and a separate subtitle file (ie sub, ssa, srt), and merge them into a true hard-sub. I'm not looking for adding them into a container, rather permanently burning them into the film with a re-encode.
I did a search but it seams the posts to be geared to just two helping for what they already have so far and turning them into mandated separates (PUO, Container, et al). I will eventually turn the converted hard-subed files into SXVCD and HVD discs. HVD doesn't support the same style of removable subs so I need them hard-coded ala VCD.

Thanks. :)

[legoman666]

virtual dub can do that. Although I woldn't reccomend it, you'd be re compressing an already compressed soruce.

[lostinlodos]

questions now:
Can VD do it as a raw output with no compression? The files I'll be transferring are all at 4MBs or higher Video and 500KBs or higher Audio in HVD compliant high resolution (1680r and 1820r). I'd hate to loose any quality; defeats the premise of HVD :( (better than HD and all that).

Cheers! :thanks:

BTW, what is the highest resolution VD can handle or is there one?

[legoman666]

you can set up vdub to frame serve the stream to the encoder of your choise. That is, assuming the encoder supports vdub's frameserver. I know tmpgenc does, I've used this method in the past to make svcd's.

[lostinlodos]

Got it all working now. Many thanks legoman666. Now if only I could get it to not be that ugly block white. The sub filter just ignores my tags. Yuck.

[ilovejedd]

Are you sure you're tagging correctly? Because I haven't had any problems changing subtitle colors in ssa and srt files...

[lostinlodos]

They play fine on their own, but they revert to chalk white block text in VD.

[legoman666]

Which filter are you using for the subtitles? Back when I made svcd's, the filter I used was for .ssa files. If you're using a .ssa subtitle file, you can open it in a text editor and change the color (among various other settings also, font size, shadow, etc).

If it's an .srt file, you can convert it to .ssa with subtitle workshop (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Subtitle%2520Workshop) and then change the settings to suit your needs.