[MEncoder-users] subtitles

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Saturday 12 January 2008 04:58:32 Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 12:55:50PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 01:17:20AM +0300, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> > > On Friday 11 January 2008 23:44:40 Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Not sure if this is the best place, but I think a good place to start
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have recoded an avi file from a vob and extracted out the
> > > > subtitles, I now have .avi .idx .sub, how can I place the subtitle
> > > > files back into the container ?  is it possible ?
> > >
> > > Yes, mkvmerge can do it. Or, if you enjoy reencoding, mencoder with
> > > -vobsub option will produce a hardsubbed video.
> >
> > mkvmerge sounds like the tool, don't like hard coding subs
>
> okay time to show my ignorance, but does mkvmerge work with avi files (or
> should I say containers).

Only for input. Anyway, you can not put vobsub in avi.

An even better way is to use some OCR tool to convert vobs to text subtitles.