major problems muxing subtitles w/ vdubmod

[xxyy]

Hello all,

I'm trying to mux a subtitle file in .srt format with an .avi file in order to create an .ogm file. I'm using vdubmod 1.5.1. I have the vobsub plugin for vdubmod installed. The .srt file has been checked for inconsistencies using "Subtitle tool" and the .avi file has no errors. I have tried many different ways of muxing the files to .ogm, but each time, the output file has 1) the normal subtitles appearing center-aligned in the screen directly below the film (which I need), and 2) smaller subtitles in skinnier letters appearing left-aligned below the film and below the normal subtitles. The media player I'm using is Windows MP 9. I have also tried saving the file as an .mkv, but here, the subtitles do not appear at all! The manner in which I save the two files is by adding the .srt as a stream in stream list. I have tried modifying some options in vobsub while the movie plays, but I do not know the options very well and the situation was not fixed. Please help!

[yaz]

may i ask why do u bother w/it ? as far as i see, u plan to play back w/a sw player most of which support outer (non-muxed) subtitle displaying. try media player classic, bsplayer, zoom-player, aso (we have a lot). imho, wmp9 is a crap for avi playback.

anyway, if u want to mux srt to avi, use avimuxgui. the latest stable is 1.16.11 but 1.17b worx also fine for me. it will do. such subtitles can be selected and played back readily in media player classic.

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[xxyy]

thank you very much for your suggestion yaz. The program - avimuxgui - works great, although it seems to have a few bugs. For instance, it had difficulty muxing a particular avi and srt, outputting an mkv with no picture, sound but a length 6 times the original? both files were checked too. The lucky thing is, where avimuxgui stalls, vdubmod can pick up the slack.

I tried using MP classic, but on some mkv's it stalls and freezes the picture, even garbling sound. it seems to have difficulty with mkv files with different streams, high def or other overhead packed into it. for this particular situation, of the media players you suggested as an alternative to wmp 9, which one would you recommend? there seem to be many out there.

thanks again.

[yaz]

sorry, but i got no experience w/mkv. all i know about it is that it may have serious playback problems :D ok, jokes apart ...

- it may be a muxing problem. for a dedicated mkv muxer see here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=90628) ... if u really want that in mkv
- it may be a splitting problem. for an alternative splitter see here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=80762)
- use the latest mpc (6.4.8.4)

i don't recommend vdm for muxing. that part of it is definitely buggy and no one takes care of it.

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