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

[Ian Collier]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:25:11PM -0600, James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> >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

>                           If you want to turn Type 1 into Type 2 (to
> make your own DVD out of files you found on the internet) then you
> need a decent DVD authoring tool, like DVD Lab Pro.

or "dvdauthor" on Linux.  The video would have to be encoded with
mencoder into a DVD-compatible MPEG2 stream, then you would run "spumux"
with a suitably crafted control file in order to multiplex the .srt file
as a subtitles layer into the MPEG2 video.

imc