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Embedding subtitles + resize | ||
| _mAyDaY_ posted 2009 Jul 19 07:06 | ||
| Hello everyone :)
I hope someone has experience with this, since I didn't have any luck.. The idea is to embed subtitles into the XviD movie and resize it to 16:9 for the purpose of watching on a DVD player (who supports XviD, but doesn't support subtitles). Also, I would like to use the vobsubs (idx + sub combination) for embedding. I don't want to touch video or audio encoding.. (I guess video must be altered because of the resize?) One other thing.. I will watch it on a 4:3 TV (but most of my XviD movies are even narrower than 16:9), so maybe it would be good to use the black area bellow the movie for the subs? I guess this can all be done with mencoder, but I haven't been able to make it recognize the idx+sub combination.. Any help is very welcome! :) TIA! | ||
| etvideob posted 2009 Jul 20 04:49 | ||
| -vobsub and -vobsubid are what you are looking for. | ||
| _mAyDaY_ posted 2009 Jul 20 10:02 | ||
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| disturbed1 posted 2009 Jul 20 13:50 | ||
| That's a problem with all documentation on mencoder. Even though the man page, and the online docs tell you to use vobsub, mencoder does not support vobsub :(
You can try a couple of things though, no idea if they work or not. -sid x -slang xx -sub x Look into converting the subtitles into a format mencoder supports. Or, use mplayer to play the file (with -vobsub options) and pipe it to mencoder. I don't use vobsub files myself, and can tell you that (for me) mencoder has auto loaded and hard encoded .srt subtitles without user intervention. | ||
| poisondeathray posted 2009 Jul 20 13:54 | ||
| You would have to re-encode at least the video in order to hardcode subs, and resize/add borders
Another option on linux is to use avidemux which has a idx/sub subber, ability to add borders, and resize filters | ||
| etvideob posted 2009 Jul 20 15:02 | ||
| Oh, yes. My bad.
Since you have to re-encode anyway I am afraid you have to use the long way. Even if the sub files contains the mpeg ps1 track I found no way to mux it directly. Read here, it explains how to: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Convert_any_Movie_to_DVD_Video | ||
| _mAyDaY_ posted 2009 Jul 20 15:18 | ||
| Hey guys, thnx for the response..
It seems mencoder can't use vobsubs in any way (using -sub doesn't work). I gave Avidemux a shot today, and it seemed pretty decent. Reminds me of VirtualDub. :) So, I added 2 filter options - VobSub (Embed VobSub subtitles into picture) and MPlayer resize (Change image size. Faster than Avisynth's Resize). At first, it didn't work because I've set Video to "Copy", but then I changed it to "MPEG-4 ASP (XviD)". And after some 30 minutes of re-coding, the result had the wanted effect - it had the vobsubs embedded and the video was resized (I used 640x360 - 16:9 resolution). But... the video was strangely lagging. It's hard to describe - it was delaying in a twitchy way :D It seems something went wrong while re-coding... I didn't change anything - left it at the defaults... Any ideas? :S | ||
| etvideob posted 2009 Jul 20 16:20 | ||
| As it is explained in the behind the link I posted I am afraid you have to:
1- use tcextract to extract the raw ps1 stream from the sub file 2- extract the pictures using subtitles2pgm 3- eventually resize 4- mux in the movie with spumux |
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