How embed subtitle in movie's file with avidemux?

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

I want to stream movies from PC to TV -
I have DLNA and also can do it by nfs/mounting from sat receiver to PC through LAN, and it works ok.
However, I do not have any feature of those two applications (DLNA & NFS/mounting), that enables adding subtitles to movies.
So, I need application that can embed subtitle and creates new movie's file (with subtitle included).
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

you can do that with:
mencoder -o outfile infile -sub subtitle.srt -subcp utf8 -font fontfile -ovc codec
fontfile sample: /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf

what is problematic?
you have many format for subtitle file, one of them is that subtitle aren't even text, but picture holding the text
so you need to extract the subtitle first, and it depend on the container and the subtitle format they use.
for mkv you can look at media-video/mkvtoolnix that have an mkvextract tool to do that.

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

krinn,

I see that in order to have mencoder, need to re-emerge mplayer with 'encode' USE flag - Right?
In general, I use text subtitles - I mean - I can open it with text editors and see the content -
so hope, no need to extract.But I am quite surprised to see that there is no such GUI tool,
that enables to edit the movie file and embed subtitle -
long ago I used to do it with windows and there were many of that.
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“You can take our property, our sweet homes, even our cloths...
But don't touch the streets, Ah, That's NO, NO, NO!
The streets are our @world's compilable kernel ...”

Apheus · Guru Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 422

I did it one time with avidemux. But that was long ago.

media-video/avidemux.

Open the movie file. In "Video" section: Change video output from "Copy" to your prefered encoder. In "Filters" there should be a filter to add a subtitle from a .srt file to the movie. Select and configure the filter. And "Save" asks for a filename and transcodes the movie.

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Apheus Hi,

I installed media-video/avidemux and it looks very nice tool,
but there is nothing in "Filters" for subtitle - it is empty??
BTW: If I choose "copy" I guess it keeps the original encoder?

Thanks
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“You can take our property, our sweet homes, even our cloths...
But don't touch the streets, Ah, That's NO, NO, NO!
The streets are our @world's compilable kernel ...”

Apheus · Guru Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 422

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Apheus,

I added USE="libass" globally (to make.conf) and updated the system but still category "Subtitles" is empty.
I wonder if need to add all your USE flags, or can you please advise particular ones?
BTW: How to print like your output that shows use flags for relevant packages?
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“You can take our property, our sweet homes, even our cloths...
But don't touch the streets, Ah, That's NO, NO, NO!
The streets are our @world's compilable kernel ...”

Apheus · Guru Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 422

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Apheus,

Here my data - some USE flags missing, comparing to yours - need to check...
Also do not know if to add them globally or by package.use?
Hope someone can tell...

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Apheus,

I added the two packages - media-libs/avidemux-core, media-libs/avidemux-plugins -
they do not installed by default during installing media-video/avidemux -
and followed your USE flags that you posted her - in particular USE flags of media-libs/avidemux-plugins -
and now I have SSA/ASS/SRT in subtitle filters

Now I am going to see how it embed subtitles...

Thanks
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“You can take our property, our sweet homes, even our cloths...
But don't touch the streets, Ah, That's NO, NO, NO!
The streets are our @world's compilable kernel ...”

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Now I see that after the process of avidemux ( I can see it with 'Preview', as well),
I get subtitle in gibberish - the .srt file is ok with my local language.
I tried to add some USE flags but still not ok.
Please advise how to add local fonts?
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“You can take our property, our sweet homes, even our cloths...
But don't touch the streets, Ah, That's NO, NO, NO!
The streets are our @world's compilable kernel ...”

Apheus · Guru Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 422

I think the combination of use flags "libass" and "fontconfig" for media-video/ffmpeg was the needed bit for the filters to become visible. I'm surprised that there is no font selection in the filter's settings, I did not know that. Unfortunately, I do not know what font avidemux uses and if there is some indirect way to configure it...

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Apheus,

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Maybe Jubler can help to fix the subtitle fonts for avidemux,
but I get this requirement and do not know if to accept or if it can cause any damage?

Apheus · Guru Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 422

It is in portage: =dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0.80. The license forbids mirroring by gentoo infrastucture, but you can download it from oracle, put it into /usr/portage/distfiles and then:

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Jubler did not help so I returned to krinn tip and embedded the subtitle with the right font with mencoder like this command:

v_andal · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 541 Location: Germany

I've tried avidemux in the past, but it didn't work for me somehow. Now I'm using Handbrake and find it to be an interesting alternative. As far as I can see, it does support subtitles addition.