problems with adding subs to my .avi

[hedniskhjartad]

I'm having trouble subbing a .avi file. I have the .avi and the .srt for english in the same folder. These were the steps I took:

I downloaded sub2divx first: When i open the .avi file, it adds up the .srt, and while loading the .avi, it says "no suitable decompressor found for this video stream."

Then I downloaded DVDSubber: it opened the .avi in its internal preview screen, but without video, only sound.

The avi runs fine on all my other players, wmp, divxplayer, vlc... both video and sound.

I was upto date with all my codecs, but just as a precaution, I installed ffdshow as asked for in the sticky notes in this forum. No difference.
I ran gspot, and a screenshot is posted below. Nandub didn't load the file, saying that it couldn't locate a decompressor for format "xvid", so I couldn't get the file information from it.
Is there any other program that I can use, or make these work for me?

[hedniskhjartad]

i thought about using avi2dvd to burn it onto a dvd first, and then letting dvdsubber II handle it, but i'm thinking there might be an easier way.

[paglamon]

What is it that you are trying to achieve---playing an avi with subtitles OR converting an avi to DVD with subtitles?

[hedniskhjartad]

What is it that you are trying to achieve---playing an avi with subtitles OR converting an avi to DVD with subtitles?

Sorry for the late reply. I'm trying to permanently integrate my avi with subtitles. I found the m2v player off this website which is working good with subtitles, but that's the only program that does so (as far as i can tell) from the ones I use.

[Chewy]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101765/dvd

the dvd already has subtitles on it

let's read the rules

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