[Cin] Adding soft subtitles to a DVD video

[Terje J. Hanssen]

Den 11.02.2024 00:57, skrev Andrew Randrianasulu:
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> сб, 10 февр. 2024 г., 21:10 Terje J. Hanssen via Cin 
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>     There are two things I want to add to my current intermediate DVD
>     mpg video files created with ffmpeg, and/or to the DVD tree
>     structure created with DeVeDeNG:
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>         1. Create and add a Navigation menu in the beginning
>         This will be an upcoming, separate topic
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>         2. Create and add Soft Subtitles as simple text info
>         commentaries to the video content
>         This is the topic for this post.
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>     The reason that I want *Soft* Subtitles as a separate text file
>     stream related to timing, is because this should be possible to
>     *add* or import to an existing video file  without the need to
>     re-encode. It should also be flexible to display on or off during
>     playback, if I have understood this correct so far.
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> IIRC you can't add text-based subtitles to DVD video. Blu-ray yes, dvd 
> no (both can use palletized reduced-color graphical subtitles) ... so 
> at least rendering text as palletized picture and then muxing it into 
> mpeg stream is unavoidable step,as far as I understand.

I have prepared a new video file and will try to add sub-titles to-morrow
http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/subtitles.html#_how_to_create_soft_subtitles


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> But may be those DVD creation guis can do srt => dvd_sub conversion 
> for you ?
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>     2.1 Preferably I want to add/import subtitles as fast and easy
>     using GUI interactive tools like DeVeDeNG or VLC if possible?
>     Next thereafter could be using the more time consuming ffmpeg
>     https://www.baeldung.com/linux/subtitles-ffmpeg#how-to-add-soft-subtitles
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>     2.2 So is the question if learning a special subtitle editor is
>     necessary to create the text file easier, like one of these 5
>     https://www.debugpoint.com/3-great-subtitle-editors-in-linux-systems/
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>     Tip, suggestions or experience how to do this?
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