Putting Subtitles On and Converting The File

[ChocoboDragon]

*hopes I am in the right forum - decided this was more of a software thing >_<*

I have an .avi file that I want to add subtitles to. There are two 'subtitle' files that are with it, .rar and .sfv (don't know what each one does).
The thing is, I want to somehow burn these onto the .avi and then convert the file so that it is able to be burnt onto a DVD and be playable on a DVD player.
So the things I am asking are:
1. How to put the subtitles permanently on the .avi file - are the .rar and .sfv any help or are they useless?
2. Turn the .avi file into an appropriate format for burning onto a DVD for DVD players.

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

[SpringBoy]

Well I haven't done this for a while but here's what I do:

- Unrar the .rar file so that I've got the "raw" subtitle file there
- Create a simple AviSynth script similar to:

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AVISource("myfile.avi")
VobSub("subtitle.sfv")

- Open the script in VirtualDub
- Compress with HUFFYUV (if you have enough space)
- Convert the AVI to MPEG2 (most converters are commercial - QuEnc is free I think)
- I use TMPGEnc for MPEG2 encoding so I then split the file into video and audio
- Open these in Muxman
- Create DVD files on the hard drive
- Open with DVD Shrink and burn to DVD

This is probably the longest way you can possibly do this but that's the way I worked out.

[milkmandan]

what springboy said...

what i would do is , use a DVD Authoring program. TMPGEnc has a authoring prog that comes with its "package"...or use the Nero DVD Authoring tool. As long as your video files are MPEG2, they are ready to be authored, and burned onto a DVD ready for playback...

[ChocoboDragon]

Thank you so much *bows*

I haven't been able to try out what you said yet because I have other stuff to do >_< But will as soon as possible.

Thank you again!