VSfilter/vobsub: avisynth version vs. Virtualdub version

Katie Boundary · 17th June 2021, 21:34

.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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Katie Boundary Registered User Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 1,056	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. __________________ I ask unusual questions but always give proper thanks to those who give correct and useful answers.