[MPlayer-users] avi+srt question

[Dragan Noveski]

Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
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> On Jan 21, 2007, at 13.58, Pepe wrote:
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>> El Domingo, 21 de Enero de 2007 16:49, Dragan Noveski escribió:
>>> hi to the list.
>>>
>>> i have produced some .srt subtitle file (using "ksubtile") for a movie
>>> which i have in a .avi format.
>>>
>>> what i want to do now is to put somehow the movie and the subtitles
>>> together.
>>> i am really not a movie-expert, but as i understood, the avi container
>>> should be modified in that way, that it is containing the .srt file, so
>>> that we don´t need a computer for showing this movie with a subtitles.
>>> in the moment i can play this stuff using mplayer very well, but the
>>> goal is that we can do this with a normal dvd player, which is just 
>>> able
>>> to play .avi files too.
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> Most DVD players that can play MPEG-4 files and SRT subtitles can 
> usually find SRT subtitle files if the video and the subtitles have 
> identical file names (except for the extension, of course)
i did not know that!
anyway, i am really happy  doing this with mencoder now, since earlier 
we always had to hav a pc running for showing this movies.
i also think that this method is much more confortable, since every 
dvd-player will be able to play it...

however, cheers,
doc