Hi, I have added a text to my avi successfully using 'mplayer -sub text.sub -subfps 10 movie.avi -loop 0' I also tried to add the text when encoding using 'mencoder -mf on:fps=10:type=jpg -sub text.sub -subfps 10 -subalign 2 -ovc lavc -subfont-encoding UTF-16 -o movie.avi \*.jpg' But when i play the movie (mplayer movie.avi -loop 0), the text is not shown. Does it mean that we can not add subtitle when encoding? I did this because i also want to play it on Windows. Thanks very much. Alison