how to convert softsubs to hardsubs?

[igivejellybeans]

Hi, everyone. I've been having a minor problem. I have tons of mkv (Matroska) and ogm (Ogg Media) files, and most of them have softsubs. This is aqll fine and dandy, except that I desire to burn these files to vcd. Vcd however, does not support softsubs,at all. Svcd... just doesnt work on my dvd player :) . So, I was wondering if anyone knew howto convert softsubs to hardsubs?I/'m able to demux the subtitles into ans srt file... if that would be any help to the process. Thanks for your help everyone! :D

[bill_baroud]

MaestroSBT can convert a SSA file to almost any usefull BMP-based subfile. So you can convert your srt to ssa, and use that soft to have the subfile type you're searching :)

[ac-chan123]

In mkv can ssa be used(also ass). and the step over BMP isn´t good. He should extract the subfile und use VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod for overlay the Sub over the Video and frameserve this to any MPEG1 encoder he use.

AC-Chan(Robert Vincenz)

[Lagoon]

Simple avisynth script (note you must demux the ogm/mkv and make a video-only avi, process the audio apart)
This requires vobsub installed as well as avisynth 2.5.x

LoadPlugin("C:\WINDOWS\system32\VSfilter.DLL") (change the windows folder if needed)
AviSource("file.avi",false)
Textsub("subs.srt")

Done ;)

[bill_baroud]

.... you just reminded me that VCD doesn't support separate subtiles (like scvd & dvd :rolleyes: ) ... so yeah, my hint is completly useless and i shoud read posts to the end :o