Adding subtitles to a AVI file

[John Wendel]

Paul Smith wrote:
> 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
> 

Just play it with mplayer from the console, the mplayer output will tell 
you the video bitrate of the original.

John