Need Help Adding Selectable Subs! (XviD to DVD)

[staindrocks]

I've been looking through the forums for a way to add selectable subs to my encodes, which i can incorporate into my current method of encoding avi/xvid to dvd. It woud be great if i could just add to my current script. The method i've always followed is:

VDub>BeSweet>AviSynth>CCE>TMPGEnc DVD Author

It's basically the same method as explained in the "AVI to DVD Guide" (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/avi2dvdr.htm) here on Doom9. In the guide, it says to add the following two lines to the script for subs:

LoadPlugin("c:\windows\system32\vobsub.dll")
vobsub("subname")

So i added the two lines to my current script. But then when i tested it in MPC, i received the following errors:

Plugin c:\windows\system32\vobsub.dll is not an AviSynth plugin.
(C:\Temporary Storage\Project Folder\LockStock.avi.avs, line 2)

So this is where i'm stuck at. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
StaINdrOcKs

[foxyshadis]

A. Use latest VSFilter for this, not the older vobsub.
B. You have to actually download the dll and point the loadplugin command to it.
C. Most important, this is the wrong way, so you can ignore the above anyway. vobsub/vsfilter hardsubs the video, which you don't want at all. Just mux the ripped subs into the encoded video when you're done, or use subrip to convert them into a text format. If they're muxed into the video, or in the same folder with the same name, mpc/vsfilter will pick them up and allow you to select them, as will most hardware players.

[staindrocks]

Thanks for your quick reply. I definitely don't want hardcoded subs on the finished dvd, but i'm not sure if i know how to do what you suggested. At what point do i mux the subs, which are .sub/.idx, into the video. And how exactly do i go about muxing them? And i'm only concerned about the playback w/ selectable subs on standalone players, and not so much on my pc. Sorry for my limited knowledge, but it's been quite a while since i've done any of this stuff, and i wasn't exactly an expert to begin with. But i appreciate you trying to help!

[foxyshadis]

You add them when you author the DVD. I'm not entirely sure how Tmpgenc DVD Author does this now, but it used to be something you added to the stream properties along with the audio. (I forgot that you were making a DVD, not a rip. Sorry about that.)