Burn subtitles in video
(with FREE converter)
- What's video with burnt-in subtitles
- Load video and subtitles in converter
- Load transcoding profile
- Choose output format and profile level
- Start transcoding
- Issues and solutions
1. What's video with burnt-in subtitles
Only a few file formats support subtitles track that you can switch when playing back on video player software or set-top box: MKV, MP4 and MPEG/VOB for DVD-Video. For all other formats, subtitles must be burnt-in permanently into video stream.
The burnt-in process is different if subtitles are picture-based (ripped from DVD or Blu-ray) or text-based (downloaded from the Internet).
Picture-based subtitles (from DVD/Blu-ray rip)
Picture-based formats:
dvdsub
codec (DVD subtitles)pgssub
codec (HDMV PGS subtitles)xsub
codec (DivX subtitles)If you burn subtitles in a disc rip job, you will set subtitles output in rip Subtitles settings...
Picture-based subtitles are processed almost like a video stream, being overlayed over the main video stream.
Issues could come, eventually, from subtitles canvas size.
Subtitles text-file (from Movie/TV web sites)
Text-based formats:
mov_text
codec (MPEG-4 Timed Text subtitles)realtext
codec (RealText subtitles)sami
codec (SAMI subtitles)ssa
codec (SubStation Alpha subtitles)srt
codec (SubRip subtitles)webvtt
codec (WebVTT subtitles)If you burn subtitles in a recode rip job, you will set subtitles output in recode Subtitles settings...
Text-based subtitles are rendered as pictures with an internal subtitles filter to be overlayed over the main video stream.
Issues could come, eventually, from fonts configuration and character encoding (charset_enc).
Download subtitle files
- Moviesubtitles.org
- opensubtitles.org
- Subscene
- SubtitleSeeker
- TVsubtitles.net (collection of subtitles for TV Shows)
2. Load video and subtitles in converter
Then open current file set in the converter from
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3. Load transcoding profile
Now the output format window is open, click Click
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4. Choose profile level
Video settings
Audio settings
Subtitles settings for text subtitles
Codec:
- choose
Burnt-in subtitles
codec.Language:
- not relevant option for burnt-in subtitles.
Subtitles settings for picture-based subtitles
Codec:
- choose
Burnt-in subtitles
codec.Language:
- not relevant option for burnt-in subtitles.
5. Start transcoding
You're now ready to start transcoding, jut click the start Transcode to AVI button and follow on the transcoding progression. |
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6. Issues and solutions
Picture-based subtitle issues
Subtitles character encoding issues
Subtitles in non-Western languages (japanese, chinese, arabic, hebrew etc.) are encoded either in Unicode charset (UTF-8), either in particular coding (Shift JIS, CP737, Windows-1256 etc.).
DVDx 4.1 handle perfectly UTF-8 and Western languages (ISO-8859, Windows-1252).
Un-supported charset encoding may produces errors in the Video converter jobs
log (Transcoding log
menu):The solution is to convert the subtitle text file, either with a text converter or and on-line service. This one seems correct:
Charco (Marble Software) converter software is free:
- charco.zip (Windows)
- charco.app.zip (Mac OS X)
- charco4nix.zip (Linux)
Subtitle track synchronization
Subtitle Workshop (UruWorks) is a free Windows utility to synchronize subtitles:
- sw4b4.zip (Windows)
Find help in support forum
And you may ask for help in DVDx 4.1 support forum...