editing AVI

[JoeHill]

Zbigniew Koziol descended, with this inscribed on tablets:

> I got the original in Russian. Video quality wasn't great but it wasn't bad 
> either. I do not remember the original title. 
> 
> Strangely, i did find a copy which is with Polish translation. I am 
> downloading it right now. The translation sounds me a bit silly, though may 
> be its formally correct. 
> 
> The title I am downloading is "9 Kompania cd2 - The 9th Company (2005)" -
> this is the second half only of the movie. It is of better video quality, but 
> still in Russian and with Polish translation.

Just finished encoding CD1 with Tovid, and it came out great, as far as I can
tell (not understanding a word of Russian). I ran it like so:

tovid -subtitles 9-ya_rota_2005_cd1.srt -in 
the.9th.company.2005.dvdrip.xvid-promise-cd1.avi -out company1

...and the subtitles (english) came out coded right into the mpeg! Woot! Now,
this hardcodes them in, as opposed to having them as an 'option', but for your
purposes this may be okay. This mpeg is also ntsc compliant, so it can be
burned to DVD, though sometimes 'joining' two mpegs, especially of this length,
can be problematic when authoring a DVD (dvdauthor has issues with
joining/grouping mpegs that run longer than 1 hour each, IIRC), and joining
them *and* having the subtitles come out?...you may have to view the movie in
two 'parts'.

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