[MEncoder-users] harcoded subs and resizing

[Phil Ehrens]

Elia Christopher wrote:
> 
> I've been testing hardcoding subs with mencoder,
> i noticed that it doesn't work when used in combination with scaling.
> Mencoder reads subs first and then resizes, is there a way to reverse 
> that order, and would that help?
> Or is there a switch i can add that would make the procedure work?
> 
> Example command:
> 
> mencoder input.avi -o outsub.flv -vf scale=320:240 -sub subs.srt 

I realise this isn't exactly the answer you were looking for,
but if you convert your .srt sub file to .ass, which is
easily done using Aegisub (free), then you can do what you
want, and much, much more. It takes about 30 seconds to convert
a plain srt file to a partially styled .ass using Aegisub.