putting subtitles into the video file

[simons-photography]

ok so I have a portable player that will not support subtitles it just plays striaght divx video only, is there anyway (preferably with virtual dub) that will make the subtitle text part of the video ? is a program that records the film off the screen going to be easier ?
thanks

[mahsah]

I swear, we need a guide on hardsubbing with avisynth stickied.

Anyways, this is how I do it:

1.Install avisynth and the Textsub/vobsub plugin for it.

2. Put the video, the .ass, and a new textfile called something.avs (the name can be anything but make sure it has that extension!)

3. Open the text file and add the lines "Directshowsource("video.avi")" and textsub("subtitle.ass") (change filenames naturally), each of those on a new line. Save and close the file.

4. Open the .avs in a media player. It should play and you should see the subtitles on the video

5. Feed the avs into virtualdub or whatever just like you would any other video file

[setarip_old]

@simons-photography

Hi!is there anyway (preferably with virtual dub) that will make the subtitle text part of the video ?One way to have permanent subtitles included as part of your .AVI:

1) Use one of the many subtitle conversion programs to conver the .SRT file to .SSA format

2) Open the .AVI in VirtualDub - and set to "Full Processing Mode"

3) From the "Video" dropdown menu, select "Filters", choose the (separate download) "Subtitler" filter and select your .SSA file - and click on "Okay"

4) From the "Video" dropdown menu, select "Compression" and choose the same video codec and configuration that you use to originally create the .AVI

5) From the "File" dropdown menu, select "Save as .AVI" and save with a new filename