devede embedded subtitles

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 21 03:22:49 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 08:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/21/13 08:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If you'd check the DeVeDe manual you'd find....
> 
> Finally, you can add up to 32 subtitle files, each one with one language. You can use the Add button or just drag&drop a file with subtitles (DeVeDe will check if the extension is .sub, .srt, .ssa, .smi, .txt, .aqt, .jss or .ass). These will be true DVD subtitles, in the sense that you can enable or disable them, and choose the language you want. When you do that, DeVeDe will show you this window:

So DeVeDe takes care of the conversion itself, apparently using
mencoder.

poc



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