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Add subtitle stream in command line ffmpeg

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#1

Hello, i'm new in ubuntu forums and i would like to ask any user with ffmpeg experience the following:

I'm also new to ffmpeg conversion. I want to convert a .avi video to a pal-dvd. The thing is that a don't know how to add a subtitle stream to the output video. In the ffmpeg manual there is a command called '-newsubtitle' that adds a new subtitle track. What happens is that a don't know it's syntax or something like that. I googled for this and i found people saying to use mencoder, and i also googled mencoder and it is said to be very slow, and that the big advantage of ffmpeg was its speed. So please, if anyone could post me a simple example on this matter, i would be very grateful. Thanks in advance to all of you!

#2

don't use ffmpeg

use mencoder it's better.

ffmpeg *is not* faster than mencoder

#3

Ok, i'll give it a try, thank you very much!