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AVIAddXSubs is a simple to use, free program to incorporate
subtitles (XSUB) from .srt (ANSI text, up to 8 srt) or idx/sub
(containing up to 8 subtitles) quickly and
easily to your avi files containing DivX/XVid video streams. Just place the avi
and its associated (same name) srt in the same directory and
Drag&Drop the avi on AVIAddXSubs icon or shortcut in your desktop.
In 2-3 minutes a new file with divx extension will be created and be ready to
play in your hardware DivX player. For
example from the files:
lost0318.avi
lost0318.srt
you get
lost0318.divx, to play in your hardware
DivX player.
To see the subtitles you have to activate them through your remote
control much like you do with normal DVD. Check the configuration page
of the program for the offered options. Maybe you have to put a smaller number
at "Vertical Position" field if subtitles are selectable, are selected, but do
not appear. The generated file is a regular avi and you can
rename it if this helps the player.
Choose the correct character set
for your language.
ATTENTION
- After the incorporation of the subtitles, the .srt
is not needed any more. Do not put this file
together with the generated divx in the player.
- Please have in mind that this
program's purpose is to show subtitles in your hardware player and not PC.
At PC, for testing reasons before burn, use DivX player from
www.divx.com. In case you just want to
view subtitled videos at PC there are more suitable methods than subtitle
incorporation, like DirectVobSub.
- You can incorporate subtitles to many avi files in the same time
if all those files reside in the same folder (for example the avi of a whole season together
with their srt). Just select them and drag&drop in program's
icon or shortcut. You can select either avi or srt. Never both of them
because operation will be executed twice for every file. You can also
select and drag&drop any number of folders. In this case all avi/divx
files in these folders and sub-folders will be processed.
- There is no re-encoding so video quality is not compromised.
XSUB subtitles is a technology (and trade mark) introduced from DivX
company. XSUB are not actually burned in the picture the way other programs
do (like virtualdub). XSUB subtitles are inserted in the avi as an
additional stream (other than video and audio) and work in similar way
as the subtitles offered from normal DVDs.
- In case you wish to replace the incorporated subtitles
just repeat the operation with another srt (or idx/sub). AVIAddXSubs
always removes any subtitles already existed in the source avi/divx
file.
- This program do not use third party utilities like DivXMux.
So all the many problems that come from this utility, disappear.
- Supports the following OS: NT/W2K/XP/VISTA. Works also with
Wine in Linux. At Intel Macs you can use a program called
Crossover (not
freeware although).
- You can
use DivX Player from www.divx.com to see
the subtitles in your PC. But
have in mind
that the results you see there, under the current configuration of the
AVIAddXSubs, will not, mandatory, be the the same in your player. Nothing
you do in your PC can inform you for the results in your DivX player. You
can only experiment with your player
directly
to find out the correct configuration. Nothing assures that any player in PC
and any desktop DivX player handle XSUB subtitles the same way,
and most of the times they don't.
- Subtitles for "latin" languages like
english, Italian, French, German etc,
have to use ANSI
at character set option at configuration page.
- As
regards RTL languages
(Arabic, Hebrew) subtitles will be
generated correctly only on PCs that have these languages properly
installed. If WinXP are considered, check at Control Panel/Regional and
Language Option/Languages if "Install files for complex script and right to
left languages (including Thai)" option is checked.
- If you
downloaded subtitle files in other formats than srt,
still you can use AVIAddXSubs to
incorporate the subtitles. Just use
Subtitle Workshop
(freeware too) and convert almost from any subtitle format to another.
- For information about the options of the program,
please
read the readme file supplied in the distribution zip.
Also read it here.
AVI 2.0 support, files over 4GB and
PS3
From version 7.1
AVIAddXSubs supports AVI 2.0 file generation.
This means that it can handle avi files bigger than 4GB.
AVI 2.0
is an extension to
AVI 1.0, which has a limit
of 4GB.
This feature is
intended mostly for PS3 owners because PS3 can play videos of high resolution
(up to 1080p) and
so files can easily overcome 4GB.
UPDATE: Two users confirmed that PS3
works fine with avi files above 4GB generated from AVIAddXSubs and
displays the incorporated subtitles as expected.
I am informed that these files
work correctly only through streaming and burning to dvd(UDF)/Blu-ray.
Such big files cannot be used through drives attached to USB because they have
to use FAT32 file system which has a limit of 4GB too. It appears that something
similar happens with PS3 internal HARD DISK.
Planed new features
- Support for mkv and mp4. Meaning that AVIAddXSubs can read
mkv and mp4 files and converts them to a
subtitled avi file. UPDATE: Because
mkv files contain H264 video streams there are not players out there
(including PS3) able to play avi with H264+XSUB. So this feature is
postponed until at least PS3 can play such files (AVI+H264+XSUB).
- Ability for a switch in the command line of AVIAddXSubs so it will not
need to press "Create..." to start processing and also close the program
automatically when there are no errors, after the operation is completed.
This is for those they want to use the program in batch file operations.
- Ability to save in a folder (containing avi and their corresponding srt/idx/sub)
a configuration file. So every time the contents of it are processed (or
reprocessed), this configuration will be used instead the one saved in
AVIAddXSubs installation folder. Users encouraged to comment about this
feature. Is it useful to some at least?
Users are encouraged to send me feature requests. I will
implement all those I decide they improve the program's usefulness.
In case subtitles do not appear in your hardware DivX
Player
- Be sure that subtitles are activated through your remote control. Is
there a list with subtitles when you press the button for subtitles? Note
that this will happen when the avi starts playing. Not before.
So wait to finish initialization and start playback.
- Test with all available options in "Mark DivX as".
- Test with "Full Screen" checked and unchecked.
- Use various values in "Vertical Position" (VP). You can create
many subtitles from the same srt with different VP. See readme
file on how. Smaller VP moves subtitles up in the screen, greater
moves them down.
- In some players equipped with USB port, XSUB subtitles do
not appear when the avi is placed in a device connected to this port. Try
also a CDRW/DVDRW to see if things go better from there.
- Check if your player is in the list (below) of the "reported working
well". If it is there then something you do wrong.
- As I have read XBOX360
do not supports XSUB subtitles with current firmware. Wait
for one that supports in the future. If someone finds out that now XSUB are
supported please let me know to remove this statement.
What is new?
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7.4 |
- Added option "Delete original avi". When the subtitled file is
successfully generated the original (source) avi is deleted.
- "Stop" button added. In case of a lengthy operation, with many
files involved, user can stop it at any time through this button.
- New utility added to distribution zip. SUBRenamer.
Renames avi and srt/idx/sub files according user whished new name
and AVIAddXSubs rules. Especially useful when more than one srt is
used in subtitle incorporation. Read more about this utility in
README.htm in zip.
- A fix is made to solve some display problems (in program's fields,
not in subtitles) with languages like Chinese, Thai etc.
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7.3 |
Fixed bugs related with RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew) and subtitle
preview. |
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7.2 |
- Now you can drag&drop a folder to the programs icon/shortcut and
all avi/divx files in this folder and its subfolders will be
processed.
- Added ability to define text outline color and size
- Added a text preview so the user is able to get an idea on how
the subtitles will look like according to the current selections in
font, etc.
- Fixed bug in "unpack packed bitstream".
UPDATE (12/6): I made a
change in subtitle preview. Anyone interested to load a srt and
see how subtitles are generated with real data, he/she can download
again. |
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7.1 |
Support for AVI 2.0 file generation. Now files bigger than 4GB can
be processed correctly. |
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7.0 |
- Now up to 8 subtitles can be incorporated coming either from up
to 8 separate srt files or from the same srt but with different
configurations. For example different font, font size, screen
position, text color, etc.
- Now for every incorporated subtitle you can individually
configure font size, Bold, color, align, opaque box, all subtitle
bitmap options and all screen position options.
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6.2 |
- Now is possible to define character set, font and language for
each of the two srt files you can feed the program. This way any two
languages can be incorporated correctly.
- Now we can choose the output file to have the extension avi
instead of divx. This works only when the input and output directory
are different.
- Now files with extension divx can be passed and processed from
the program. No need, any more, to rename them first as avi.
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6.1 |
Fixed bug with Center Align of subtitles that affected
only users of Hebrew and Arabic Languages. |
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6.0 |
- Unpack packed bitstream option added. Some player are not fully
compatible with packed bitstream avi. The symptoms are jerky move,
dropped frames and... headache. Check this option (default) to get
smoother playback.
- All audio streams included in the original avi are now
copied to the generated divx file.
- Bold option added. Makes generated subtitles in bold.
- A fix is made for Right to Left Languages. Specifically
for Arabic and Hebrew. Users of those Languages if you see problems
report back to me.
- Fixed bug regarding idx/sub subtitles when Full Screen
checked.
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| 5.7 |
Time shift option added. Negative values (in milliseconds) cause
subtitles to appear sooner and positive later. |
| 5.6 |
- Center At option added. This defines the center of your
TV and helps the centering of subtitles.
- Full Screen option added. Some players work better when
this is checked and others when is not.
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| 5.5 |
A fix made for Hebrew, another right to left language.
I cannot confirm that the fix is ok. People using this language please
confirm. |
| 5.4 |
Because idx/sub subtitle files can contain more
than one language now the user is able to include any of them, up to 8,
in the generated divx file. |
| 5.3 |
In case of idx/sub with multiple language
subtitles, a dialog gives user the option to select one of them. |
| 5.2 |
Added option to choose subtitles color. |
| 5.1 |
- TV System options replaced with Subtitle Resolution
where added one more option, Custom. There the user can
experiment with various values of Width and Height of the generated
subtitle bitmaps to solve problems in the minority of hardware
players where subtitle either do not appear or appear not in the
center of TV. So if you had no problems with previous version, you
don't need this one.
- Added two more options under Testing. Are used for
troubleshooting. Generate sample subtitles at various positions of
the screen and also optionally a grid, that can help the user to
figure out how his/her player's firmware handles subtitles, find out
the correct Vertical Position etc.
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| 5.0 |
- Idx/sub subtitle support is introduced. In Idx/sub pair,
the sub part is a binary file which contains the bitmaps of
subtitles. In this case the user has no ability to choose font and
font size.
- Bug fixed regarding the additional subtitle in case of srt. Was
not marked correctly as second subtitle stream.
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| 4.1 |
- Detection of multipart AVI 2.0 changed, to detect some AVIs with
an error in their header information.
- AVIInfo application added to the distribution package to help
the inquiring of problematic AVIs.
- Process of .srt enhanced so when the blank line between
subtitles is missing then it is added automatically. This solves
situations when more than one subtitles appears together when
viewing.
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| 4.0
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Now an additional subtitle (total 2) can be
incorporated. For example Greek and English. |
| 3.15
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Fixed bug that appears when many files are selected for
subtitle incorporation. It appears when one of them is marked as AVI 2.0 |
| 3.14 |
Added capability to specify a preferred output
directory |
| 3.13
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Now supports most of the multipart AVI 2.0 files. |
| 3.12 |
- Added capability to extend the time
duration (in ms) of subtitles. This helps when you think the
subtitles go away too fast or in cases of not so perfect
synchronization.
- Faster operation about 20%-30%
- Time spend indication
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| 3.11 |
Fixed bug with avi files over 2GB. |
| 3.10 |
Option for opaque subtitle background. |
| 3.9 |
- Now is possible to select more than one files to
embed subtitles.
- File selector now remembers the last directory.
- A fix for Arabic subtitles.
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Players reported working well
Advent 3326E (VP=450)
AEG DVD-4514
ARISTONA DVD/RECORDER ARV635 (VP=450)
ARISTONA model 436 (VP=450)
Audiola DVX 2011 USB
Audioline DVD 024
BLUESKY DV865 (MDX=XVID)
BLUESKY DVX495 (VP=546)
ELITE PV400 USB
Elta 8847 (VP=454, CP=348)
Everton dvx-555u divx/DVD
Fj mini combo DMV6103 (VP=500)
FUNAI DBR-5311 (DVB-T) (VP=546)
FUNAI DVP-6200
HYUNDAI HE-DX 230 (VP=400)
HYUNDAI HDV G320U
ICYBOX SATA IB-MP3025-B (VP=460)
IQ DVD-360 (VP=500, MDX=XVID)
JVC KD-AVX 2
KiSS DP-1000
Kiss DP-600
LG 42LG60FR (VP=450, CP=320)
LG 9800H (VP=450)
LG 9800 (VP=450)
LG DV 9900
LG DVX 298H (VP=450) (Playback through USB doesn't support XSUB, use DVDRW only)
LG DVX-172 (VP=450)
LG DVX-350 (CP=360 VP=450)
LG DR-7900 (VP=400, CP=320)
LG LH T360 (VP=546)
LG RH7500 (VP=460)
LG VC 8606
NEXTBASE SDV97-SD
Miray DVM-L55 (VP=450)
Miray DVM-L57 (VP=450)
Miray DVM-L84 (VP=450)
Miray DVM-L86 (VP=450)
OMNI-3200
Onkyo DR-S 501 DVD (part of Onkyo LS-V501 home cinema)
Panasonic DVD Home Theater SA-PT 150
Panasonic DVD Home Theater SA-PT 460
Philips 3010
Philips 3040
Philips DVP 5960 (VP=420)
Philips DVP 5980 (VP=420, CP=320)
Philips DVP 3142 (VP=530)
Philips DVP3144 (VP=440)
Philips DVP 3160 (VP=400, CP=360)
Philips DVP 5160
Phillips DVP-630/02
Philips DVP-720SA (CP=360, VP=560)
Philips HTS 3500S version23 (VP=500, CP=360)
Philips MCD295 hi-fi
Philips 5160 (VP=440)
Pioneer 575 (VP=450)
Pioneer 696 AV (VP=450)
Pionner DCS-333 (Xv-Dv333) (VP=450)
Pioneer DVD DV300
Pioneer DV-400 (VP=450)
PS3 (with firmware 2.20 and above)
Quadro DVD-606 (VP=500, CP=360)
RM168 (VP=440, CP=365)
Samsung DVD 1080P8 (VP=450, CP=320)
Samsung DVD P171
Samsung DVD P366 (VP=450)
Samsung DVD P350K
Samsung DVD P370 (VP=450)
Samsung DVD HD745
Samsung DVD-HD870 (VP=546)
samsung HT-TQ22 (VP=546)
Samsung HT-TX250
Samsung HT-XQ100
scarlett sdivx-1201
Schaub Lorenz 20138
Schneider DVD-400 HDMI (VP=369, MDX=DX50)
sepia 5600
SIGMATEK XS-700 PRO
SILVERCREST KH-6511 (VP=400)
SILVERCREST Mobile KH 6500
SnaZio SZ1350 DVD Net Cinema. (VP=450)
SONY HX 750
SONY DAV-DZ 110 (VP=400)
SONY DAV-DZ 300 (VP=400)
SONY DVP-NS92V
SONY NS-32 (VP=450)
SONY NS-33
SONY DVP NS-38
SONY DVP-NS92V (VP=450)
TELEMAX DVD-003 mini DVD player
Thomson DTH 270E (VP=400)
TOSHIBA RD-XS25 DVD Recorder (CP=355, VP=490)
Trident DVD-K2301
Trident k-2303 (VP=450, CP=360)
UNITED 6068
UNITED DVR 6080 (VP=546)
UNITED 7080 (VP=450)
UPXUS mini-369
Vivax K-210
Vivax K-300
X-Wave 9200
YAMAHA S557
At Program's Configuration Page:
VP="Vertical Position"
MDX="Mark DivX as"
CP="Center At"
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wish a reply.
- Greek speaking people can
write to me in Greek. Please
avoid greeklish. If you prefer you can post your questions
at the GreekTVSubs forum
here. - English speaking people
can also post their comments/questions
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