workflow advice

[infante]

Trust me i've been through the threads...

I would very much appreciate advice on workflow. I am starting with a foreign language DVD. My end goal is to create 2 WMV files of the main title only - one in the native language and one with english subs. No further compression before the encode... no changes or edits in the subs needed.

Current workflow is DVDdecrypter>Dgindex>Avisynth (AVS)>WM encoder and It's working very well. I'm pulling my hair out working in the subtitles.

Don't mind a commercial program if it makes my life easier. I already own DVDfab if that matters.

Thank you in advance.

[Zwitterion]

To hardcode subtitles:
Extract the subtitles with VobSub (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VobSub).

Then put them in your folder and add the following lines to the avs script (before resizing):
LoadPlugin("C:\Windows\system32\VSFilter.dll")
VobSub("VTS_01_0.sub")

Some documentation that might help:
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dvobsub.htm
http://avisynth.org.ru/docs/english/externalfilters/vsfilter.htm


But why do you want to hardcode your subtitles anyway? It's easier to just encode the film without subs and then add the subs at playback using DirectVobSub or ffdshow.

[infante]

thank you for the quick response.

The actual end game is legal streaming and the best solution would be subs that could be turned on or off by the user. I understand that SAMI works well with WMP. So I probably should keep them soft and figure out a way for the user to turn off or on closed captioning and load the appropriate SAMI file without having to dig into their WM preferences.

rg