Hardcode forced subtitles

[yamyam]

Hello, just a quick question regarding forced subtitles, is there any tools out there that will allow me to:

hardcode a forced subtitle track on to the video stream ?

Thanks

[HeroicMonkey]

You can use AviSynth for that. Just include your subtitles in the script and retranscode the video stream.

[yamyam]

Quick Question, can avisynth process & output vobs ?

Heres basically what im doing:

After rip with dvd decrypter, strip the main movie of unwanted crap using ifoedit (unwanted crap as in vob ids i dont want audio tracks subpicture tracks etc) with the box ticked make new ifos, i then end up with a clean dvd consisting of the main movie and just 1 audio & subtitle track (2 if ive got a forced subpicture track), then i load the dvd into nero recode under recode main movie to dvd, and just let it compress the video for me.

All Im trying to do here (if possible) is process this dvd merging the video track & the forced subpicture track into 1.

Thanks

[r0lZ]

You can encode directly the AVS file in any encoder supporting frame serving from Avisynth. I use CCE to do it without problem, but I don't know if Nero accepts AVS files as input.
Take care: It's not so easy to import your new title back in the original compilation.

BTW, why do you want to merge the subpics? You will loose some quality, and the ability to watch the movie without subpics.

[yamyam]

Im not sure either if nero accepts AVS files as input, thanks for bringing that up because i will give it a try now, I know it might not work importing my title back into the original (from the old days before 1 clickers i used to try this method e.g. the remux m2v option in ifoedit).

I dont want to merge the complete english subpicture track only the forced one which might contain for example 5 subpics throughout the whole film.

Maybe this might be possible with DVDSubEdit, i see the option to see only forced subpics, is there anyway to stick them to the video ?

Thanks

[r0lZ]

Certainly not with DVDSubEdit.

If you cat't get Nero to accept your AVS script, you can try also to frameserve from AviSynth to VirtualDub, and then to Nero. But if Nero accepts only standard video files, I doubt it will work.

[yamyam]

OK, Tried two methods here, no problem with frameserving thats working fine:

Processed vob with ifo edit with no split so have one large vob:

Start with this line
DirectShowSource("f:\1.vob")

But how do i include the subtitle track from the vob, did a search but cant find how to turn the subtitles on.

Also tried extracting with vobedit and using the m2v file & ac3 file but cant seem to find how to use the sup file.

Thanks

[r0lZ]

There are filters for AviSynth and VirtualDub to add the subpic over the video. I don't remember their names, sorry. But I've just googled a bit and found this guide (http://www.divxland.org/permanentsubtitling.php). You can also download this filter (http://www.virtualdub.org/virtualdub_filters).

I think you need to convert the subpic to a text format to use those filters. You can do it with DVDSubEdit (http://download.videohelp.com/DVDSubEdit/) (it does a full automatic OCR), or, if you need more control, with SubRip (http://zuggy.wz.cz/).