Subtitles In Standalone DIVX players

[h8null]

I have a Panasonic DVD S 325. It plays all the divx movies that I write. But it doesnt support the .srt or .sub subtitles that I write along with it. Any way of making use of the subtitles?? I know there is an option of upgrading the firmware, but I am not too keen on that.. If nothing else works, I guess I will give it a go.

Also with divx movies containin more than one audio stream, I cant seem to select the alternative audio channel. Any thoughts ??

[paglamon]

But it doesnt support the .srt or .sub subtitles that I write along with it.

Are you sure?
If it doesn't,then the only option you have is to hardcode the subs into the avi.

[NightTran]

I have a Panasonic DVD S 325. It plays all the divx movies that I write. But it doesnt support the .srt or .sub subtitles that I write along with it. Any way of making use of the subtitles?? I know there is an option of upgrading the firmware, but I am not too keen on that.. If nothing else works, I guess I will give it a go.

Also with divx movies containin more than one audio stream, I cant seem to select the alternative audio channel. Any thoughts ??

Did you write with dvd flick, it have an option to add sub in it

[paglamon]

@Night, I think he meant playing the DivX movies as they are(probably in avi) and not converting to DVD.
BTW,h8nul,how did you write your DivX and .srt files?

[h8null]

Any option other than hardcodin .... Some movies dont need subtitles and u can know that only when you play them. Besides its kinda big pain to hardcode each of the 6 divx movies you are goin to write...

[h8null]

@Night, I think he meant playing the DivX movies as they are(probably in avi) and not converting to DVD.
BTW,h8nul,how did you write your DivX and .srt files?

Yes I did write them both.... And yes I do mean writing them as they are....

[Chewy]

BTW,h8nul,how did you write your DivX and .srt files?

a good question?

[h8null]

a good question?

Well I wrote them just as in the computer, in the same folder with the same name.... How is it supposed to be written?

[shiny#3]

well, most "Divx capable" player with
subtitle support play subtitles if the
video resides in an avi container and the subtitles either in *.txt or *srt format.
unfortunately, there are not many articles or helpful test reports about your player in the net.

if you would like to check out what
"divx" encodings along with what subtitle formats are playable on your
player with the present firmware
why don't you simply download the
divx test cd v2.0. it contains several different divx encodings
with different subtitles to check out.
here is a direct download link for the test cd.

http://pandora.essentkabel.com/divxtest/divx_test_cd_v20.iso

and here is a howto to run this cd.

http://divxtest.surdvd.com/What-is-DivxTest-Where-can-I-find.html

good luck

[NightTran]

I thought Flick make cd too? unless I am wrong because I never burn movie in CD

[paglamon]

I thought Flick make cd too? unless I am wrong because I never burn movie in CD

AFAIK, Flick cannot author a cd. But whether it can or cannot is not the question because h8null does not wish to make a Video-CD or a DVD-Video.He is writing the DivX avi files into a DVD as Data-DVD.

@h8null, have you tried AVIMux-GUI?

[global_dev]

there is a windows app called sub2divx, http://userxp.tripod.com/sub2divx.htm which combines a sub file and video into 1 file. It works great on my standalone ddivx/xvid player (jamo). no re-encoding to hard titles.

[chance_]

my dvd divx player plays subtitles on the avi files but soon as it switches to cd2 file it just plays the cd1 subtitle. weird,

[Chewy]

I thought each avi had to have it's own srt?

cd1.avi cd1.srt

cd2.avi cd2.srt

[chance_]

yeah thats how its burnt on my cd. but it just keeps reading the first cd1.srt instead of cd2.srt when it plays cd2.avi