virtualdub subtitle

[apallingjoker]

Hi:

I was looking for a way to subtitle my avi/mpeg files. Does anyone know of a program that allows this? also, i heard there was a plug in for virtual dub that made this possible, does anyone have a link to a place i can download it? thanks a lot

[Graham Meredith]

Yes,

You can download the subtitler plugin at
http://www.virtualdub.org/virtualdub_filters.html


Also, you might like to try SubStation Alpha subtitler:
http://www.eswat.demon.co.uk/substation.html

It's got stacks of features

Graham

[apallingjoker]

Ya, i downloaded those programs and they work. its awsome! but i had another question. If I inputed video from a vhs and made it into a mpeg file with a dazzle digital video creator, how would i subtitle these files? Virtual dub only allows for mpeg 4 compression, so i would have to compress it into mpeg 4 then apply the subtitles then conver it back into mpeg 1 becuase i wanted to make a vcd. Doesnt all that compression ruin the quality? Thanks for your help.

[Graham Meredith]

The way to do it is to try and get an MPEG-1 codec for VirtualDub and capture the AVI in VirtualDub. Then apply the subtitles, then save it as an MPEG-1 file directly in VirtualDub. I am in the process of trying to look for the codec myself.

The other way is to capture in VirtualDub, apply subtitles, then use Virtualdub to "frameserve" the outputted AVI directly to a compressor such as the Tsunami TMPEnc encoder set to MPEG-1 settings. (download the English version at http://go.to/doom9/
in the downloads section - and download the rip-pack "SVCD pack part 2" - its amongst this, with a bunch of other goodies). This essentially does the same thing. In this way, you don't end up with a massive temporary file created and a lot of time wasted. This is messy but apparently can be done (I haven't tried, just read about it). I'd rather, though, have the actual MPEG-1 codec in VirtuaDub itself and do everything internally.

I've submitted a post for the MPEG-1 codec so watch this space!

Regarding the loss in quality from MPEGGing an already compressed DiVX MPEG-4 file, yes, I should imagine that you will get loss, but you should try it and see how noticeable the loss is - you might find it's quite acceptable to your eyes - and in the end, that's all that really matters. My issue with the whole problem is the extra time it takes to do the whole thing twice, so to speak. My machine is a bit slow (P111 450) and I spend a lot of my time compressing rather than capturing. To do it all again twice in VirtualDub is really annoying.

Graham