encoding non-text subtitles

[dstarfire]

Is there any way to add subtitles to a file without having to convert them to a text file, first?

It's already a hassle between ripping it from the dvd, setting up the frameserver (or whatever it is dgindex/dgdecode does), creating and tweaking the avisynth script, before finally being able to combine all that stuff together in single file.

On a related note, whatever happened to the ogm container? A few years back it was the preferred way to encode movies with multiple audio and even subtitle streams, yet I haven't seen any guides for, or mention of it here.

[J_Darnley]

Use VSFilter's VobSub() filter instead of TextSub() if you want to encode the DVD subs onto the video. If you just want to mux the files together with the video and audio, look for the subtitles, or other streams section in what ever program you might be using.

As for ogm, I think that Matroska (mkv) has succeeded it. As far as I know it supports all formats that ogm was used for. I believe it also supports more audio and video formats than ogm was used for. It also has great tools for creating them and just works flawlessly in my experience.

[dstarfire]

Thanks for the info. Is there any way I can set that up within megui, or one of the other gui/automation packages out there?