Adding subtitles to a AVI file

[Paul Smith]

On 10/8/05, John Wendel <jwendel10 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>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?
> >>
> >>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".
> >
> > Thanks, John and Gavin. How can I determine the "actual vbitrate"?
>
> Just play it with mplayer from the console, the mplayer output will tell
> you the video bitrate of the original.

Thanks a lot, John.

Paul