devede embedded subtitles

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:38 -0700, Randolph Jones wrote:
> can dvede make a video dvd using the srt file to embed subtitles?
> 
> I have tried several times; I get various errors/crashes.
> the dvd does not play subtitles in dvd player
> 
> I can make a dvd that plays embedded subtitles in dvd player, but lots
> of old movies on youtube have separate subtitle files, and
> downloadhelper does not download the srt file with the movie, and the
> downloaded movie does not have subtitles.
> 
> vlc can play the downloaded movie with the srt file to produce a
> subtitled movie.
> 
> problem is how to make a dvd from this material that will play in a
> player.

AFAIK subtitles on DVDs (i.e. standard media playable in a commercial
player) are actually video files, not text such as srt, so you would
need to convert them, perhaps with transcode, ffmpeg or mencoder.

poc