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DivXLand Media Subtitler Embeds Subtitles into Movie Files
Posted by Lifehacker US Edition at 5:00 AM on August 23, 2008
Windows only: While many media players happily play subtitles that are separate from a video, you can still embed subtitles directly into a ripped or downloaded movie file with free utility DivXLand Media Subtitler. With support for over 30 different subtitle formats and 15 different video formats including MPEG, DIVX, and XVID, you'll rarely come across a combination of subtitle and video you can't combine. Subtitler made short work of applying English subtitles to the nearly 60 years' worth of Godzilla movies I threw at it. If it can handle a lifetime of a man in a rubber lizard suit it can definitely handle your foreign film collection. If you find yourself with a big pile of foreign films but a short stack of subtitles, check out recently reviewed Subdownloader to find subtitles for your media. For a solution that adds the subtitles as you are creating a DVD of the movie file, check out this tutorial for DVD Flick. DivXLand Media Subtitler is a free download for Windows only.
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Gisley
Posted September 23, 2008 6:43 AM
Embedding the subtitles onto the video hasn´t been a problem.
I just cannot syncronize the actual dialogues with the actual time the captions stay on. I don´t have any control over it.
Any compreenhensive tutorial available would be so appreciated!
Thank you.
Gi
Ender15
Posted 5:16 AM 23/8/08
Does it include a way to apply spot edits to subtitles?
It's get tiring to open them up in notepad++ whenever you want to move them a second back or forward.
Ender15
Blue_Mage
Posted 5:56 AM 23/8/08
Just from the anime side of subtitling, I'm a lot more familiar with Aegisub. It's grown to be a really awesome program for what it does.
Blue_Mage
CapeKid
Posted 5:42 AM 23/8/08
About how long does it take to apply subtitles to a full length movie?
Is it quick enough that I would be able to fire this up right before I transfer a movie onto flash drive to play on the ps3.
CapeKid
critiquer
Posted 5:42 AM 23/8/08
Looks good....it'd be a good way to also have some fun with foreign films :P
critiquer
htiawe
Posted 6:26 AM 23/8/08
Is there a Mac alternative?
htiawe
dogcow
Posted 6:38 AM 23/8/08
@htiawe:
VisualHub, with Perian installed, and options set to "force Quicktime", can hard encode subtitles to whatever format you are converting to. Works very nicely!
dogcow
seda
Posted 7:18 AM 23/8/08
This is what I was looking for
seda
seda
Posted 8:32 AM 23/8/08
Error when Divxland tries to open vdub program. Running the vdub program manually worked though.
seda
katscanne
Posted 10:34 AM 23/8/08
Someone watches InuYasha...
katscanne
superaktieboy
Posted 8:42 PM 23/8/08
any such program for linux?
superaktieboy
garoux
Posted 10:39 PM 23/8/08
@superaktieboy: try avidemux (it is included in the ubuntu repositories--your distribution may be different). You have a subtitler option under "Video Filters" which does pretty much the same thing (and apply a handful of other effects as well such as a sharpening filter). Avidemux is also cross-platform with Windows and Mac OS X bineries available.
garoux
Jason Fitzpatrick
Posted 11:35 PM 23/8/08
@seda: The first time I ran the application I actually had to tell it where Virtual Dub was so it could link to the exe. YMMV?
Jason Fitzpatrick
twopeak
Posted 1:56 AM 26/8/08
I don't know of a better application, but this application is terribly picky about movie formats.
My girlfriend needs to do this because she is a language teacher and usually I spend 2 hours converting a video file to something that this application will read.
After this it's a breeze to add your own subtitles (or downloaded ones).
If you add your own subtitles, make a separate text file with one line one comment and then load it in the application.
twopeak
az060693
Posted 3:33 AM 26/8/08
I just use mkvtoolnix (mkvmerge)
az060693
HilliardAsina
Posted 7:17 AM 24/8/08
Does this app encode 'soft subs'--captions that can be turned on and off? Most 'subtitles' for avi files are flattened into the image, and thus cannot be turned off (lame...). Soft subs, like 'close captions' in US TV programs can be turned off and otherwise hacked, which makes them much more attractive--they're text streams, not plain images.
HilliardAsina
ToddFiske
Posted 6:59 AM 23/8/08
Kagome!
ToddFiske