[MEncoder-users] Hardcoding .sub subtitles into movie

[Phil Ehrens]

Phil Payne wrote:
> Phil Ehrens wrote:
> 
> >Phil Payne wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I have an  avi with .sub subtitles.
> >>
> >>Is there anyway to re-encode the avi to hard-code the subtitles into the 
> >>movie stream e.g. so I can watch it on a rather low-featured external 
> >>divx player?
> >>
> >>If I include -sub on the mencoder commandline this have worked in the 
> >>past with .srt format subtitles but does not work with .sub
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >
> >if the avi is called foo.avi and you have the files foo.idx and foo.sub:
> >
> >mencoder ... -sub foo -vobsubid N ...
> >
> >Where N is the index of the sub stream you want. Sometimes you need to
> >use the -sid and/or -slang options as well, not sure why (and it may be
> >mencoder version specific).
> >
> Doesn't look like -vobsubid is a valid cmd line for my version...

Oh, I am an idiot. Those are the options I pass to mplayer when
I use it to hardsub from transcode using the -x mplayer option to
transcode.

Sorry. My bad. Everybody gets one free kick.