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17th June 2021, 21:34 | #1 | Link |
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VSfilter/vobsub: avisynth version vs. Virtualdub version
.sub and .idx files can include multiple subtitle tracks. Gabest's VSfilter/Vobsub for Virtualdub is designed to let you select from among these tracks when it loads a .sub or .idx file. However, no such feature is documented for VSfilter/Vobsub for Avisynth. In addition, there are a couple of forks of VSfilter, such as Cyberbeing and pinterf's Xy-VSfilter and z0rc's VSfilterMod, but these don't seem to add the track-selection feature either. What's the deal with that?
It seems that if I want to hardsub a non-AVI file with a subtitle track other than Track 00, I first have to load everything into Virtualdub, export a losslessly compressed or uncompressed AVI file, and then load that file into some other program (like Tsunami MPEG Encoder) to get it to the format that I actually want. This wastes a lot of time and hard drive space, so alternative solutions (other than softsubs) would be appreciated.
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17th June 2021, 21:52 | #2 | Link |
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Just use Subtitle Edit to pick the track you want and/or convert the sub. It's much easier than going lossless through virtual dub.
About the feature, I can't say, I always have .ass when I hardsub, so... you know... I don't really use it |
20th June 2021, 14:52 | #4 | Link | |
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I had no idea it was that easy. Mind you DVD subtitles generally don't look that great, so I usually convert them to text with Subtitle Edit first anyway, even though it can be tedious. MeGUI's Vobsubber will also extract individual subtitle streams from idx/sub files and save them in the same format. |
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