| Posted by Goro on 02/07/06 14:20 
Ken Maltby wrote:
 >     Bob's stated position is that the software is defective if it doesn't
 > function in the manner he expects it to.
 >
 >   Since his subtitles play when the .ifo file is included, but not
 > when played from the .vob; the subpicture stream must be
 > referenced/played to see the subtitles.  This is how DVDs
 > work.  Now for .avi files:
 >
 >   You can't add subtitles to an AVI file. It's a limitation of the format.
 > You have to keep them as a separate file or use an OGM or MKV
 > container.  So to play back there is a file (.srt or one of several others)
 > included with the .avi, and it's the player that adds the subtitles during
 > playback.
 >
 >   The other way to do it permanently applies the subtitles over the
 > video, and the subtitles can't be turned on or off.
 
 AutoGK (IIRC) extracts the subtitle stream into an IDX/SUB pair.  This
 is apparently an image stream similar to (if not identical to) the
 original DVD subtitle stream as SubRip will read it and OCR it.  I
 prefer .srts as it's easier to fix any typos and to retime it as i need
 to.
 
 -goro-
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