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"?

Paul