"Normal" Subtitles?

[kshawkeye]

When encoding a DVD to AVI, what happens if there is another language being spoken in the movie, but only once in a while, are those subtitles hard coded into the VOBs already? Just a subtitle that comes up every once in a while another language is spoken, not the whole movie.

[Guest]

Likely it's just in the video and so will show up in your AVI without doing anything. If you see it in DGIndex when you preview, then you will see it in your AVI.

[Floatingshed]

I am interested in this too. I've never done anything with subs before and its all rather daunting.

I have several movies that have short bursts of subtitles when a character speaks another language and they are definately not burned into the video. Is this what is meant by "forced subs"?

If anyone can point me in the direction of a plain English crash course in subs it would be much appreciated.

thanks.

[manono]

Is this what is meant by "forced subs"?

Maybe, maybe not. Forced subs are a few subs in a much larger sub stream that are marked as forced. For example, you might have the entire English language subtitles, but only a few of them are a translation from a different language. Those will be flagged as forced. Just as common, though, is for those few subs from dialog in a different language to have their own sub stream.

There's no real easy way to find out which you have. If you have them all on the hard drive, if they have their own stream then they're much smaller in size as compared to the ones with all the dialog translated. Sometimes you just have to open them up to read the dialog and see what you have.