[MEncoder-users] How to add subtitles to a video?

[Peter]

Kasper Bonne wrote:

> If you have the .srt file just add -sub subname.srt to your mencoder
> command line. You can adjust the font with -subfont-text-scale and the
> position with -subpos.
> 

I can see three different kinds of subtitles:

Type 1: found on the Internet, a file with ascii text and timestamps, contained 
in an additional file with a .srt extension

Type 2: found on DVD's: streams of text shapes in raster graphics, interleaved 
with the video, so that the player can select the stream (language) of choice 
and have it overlaid over the video

Type 3: the subtitles are hard coded on top of the video, producing one simple 
file with just one video stream, so that the subtitle cannot be turned off - the 
subtitles become part of the video permanently

The thing is, the OP wants to turn Type 1 into Type 2, but I have a feeling that 
mencoder turns Type 1 into Type 3. Am I right, or not? If I'm wrong, where is 
the option to create multiple language streams from multiple .srt files?

-- 
Peter

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