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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