Adding subtitles to a AVI file

[John Wendel]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I have got a video in AVI format, whose subtitles are in a separate
> file, with the extension .sub. Is there some easy way of joining the
> two files into a AVI file with the subtitles included?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 

If mplayer will play the file, mencoder can output a new avi file with 
the video + subs. Good luck with the HUGE man page.

mencoder $1 -o test.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts \ 
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=NNNN -oac copy

You should substitute the actual vbitrate for "NNNN".

Regards,

John