HorrorSpeak---Terror Awaits You in Every Forum!!!!: Rather Odd Question

I wanted to revisit this issue in case anyone here uses video players or burns Divx to DVD to watch movies and wants computer subtitle files to play in said movie.

I wanted to get Chinese subtitles on movies for my fiancee, so after a lot of toying around I finally perfected this so I thought I would give a little how to guide in case any of you want to do the same(this also can be used to put English subs on Foreign movies that are without them).

Ok first what you need, several tools.
Firstly what you need is Virtual Dub mod, I find I want it with the LAME encoder built in, so the best package to load all your codems would be the following
AMVapp Package

Standard Version of Virtual Dub

if you have never used VD, I find it such a nice simple video editing app, it's a must have... I find even though it's simple, by adding free filters it becomes very powerful.

Subtitler

Put that in your Virtual dub plugins folder

Divxland Media Subtitler

now, the media subtitler mixed with the others will do the job, but I find it has some issues that makes me want to use other programs. So here is what to do.

open media subtitler and set the Subtitle Character set to Simplifyed Chinese(if you are doing as I am) or whatever the subtitle language will be. File/Open Text of Subtitle, it will make some changes, just choose OK and continue, now file/Save as, save the subtitle as an SSA (Substation Alpha). Now it will be encoded properly for future use.

Now open Virtual Dub, and open the video in question, if it bring up no prompts we are good to continue, and I will cover that step first, after that step I will cover what to do if you A) get a warning about VBR(Variable Bitrate Audio) or you just have audio sync problems in the finished product).

Ok, virtual dub is up.. the video is open and you have no audio warnings, go to Video and set it to full processing mode, Video/Compression choose your choice, Divx or Xvid(I like Xvid). Now go to Video/Filters and hit ADD, and choose subtitler, it will automatically have you browse to your SSA file, ok. Now under Audio make sure it is set to direct Stream copy. Go to File SAVE AS, choose a name for the final product and it will encode a movie with embedded subtitles in about 30-40 minutes (more if your computer sucks)

Ok, if we have VBR warning or Audio sync, extra steps here. We go to Virtualdubmod, open the video and hit NO to the suggestion of changing the audio header. under video full processing, compression Xvid or Dvix again your choice. under streams view all streams, click the audio track here once and on the right SAVE WAV, export the audio as a wave file this will take about 4 minutes. once done double click the existing sound stream to disable it, and hit ADD, add the wav file you saved. Right click the wave file that is now on the list and change it to FULL PROCESSING, right click it again and hit COMPRESSION, you want to select LAME here and I choose 48000 128bit, but you can do whatever you like, higher bitrate= larger filesize. Once done hit ok, save as and it will export a clean video with standard audio that won't lose sync. When it's complete go back to the step above and about embedding the subtitles and you are good to go.

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