WMV Subtitling

[armadillo22]

Hi all

I have a query and hope someone might be able to help.

I have to produce a number of wmv files with a number of subtitle tracks that the viewer can select themselves (read: NOT burnt invision). I have the subtitle files (.smi) and from my research I'm getting the impression that all you have to do is name the subtitle file the same as the wmv and place it the same directory. Is that all?

In addition to the above I will be producing a number of each wmv to different profiles. How do you go about editing the format of the subtitles i.e. font size etc?

I've been thrown into the deep end on this one...neither encoding wmv files or subtitling are what I usually do.

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Note: I've also posted in the subtitling section...but no success.

[benwaggoner]

Expression Encoder supports muxing .sami files into the ASF as a script stream, which you can then display in WMP by turning captioning on, or by embedding it in a Silverlight player with subtitle support.

[chrislynch]

Expression Encoder supports muxing .sami files into the ASF as a script stream, which you can then display in WMP by turning captioning on, or by embedding it in a Silverlight player with subtitle support.

Interesting. So, is SAMI part of Windows Media 9 Advanced Profile, and can any capable WM9 player/decoder support SAMI? I'm mainly thinking of the Xbox 360 as the client.

[benwaggoner]

Interesting. So, is SAMI part of Windows Media 9 Advanced Profile, and can any capable WM9 player/decoder support SAMI? I'm mainly thinking of the Xbox 360 as the client.
That implementation actually muxes the caption data into the ASF file as a script stream, not into the video stream. So it's compatible with Simple and Main profiles as well.

I don't know that there's a way to show them in Xbox 360 yet, though. It will display in Silverlight or WMP if caption playback is turned on.

[bond]

as wmv9/vc-1 is a video standard and not a subtitle standard it does NOT include sami. and therefore it is not for sure that every wmv9/vc-1 player supports such files