Playing .avi file

[JD]

On 04/04/2013 08:24 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 09:04, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using mplayer to play an avi file.
>> the dir where the file resides also contains an srt (subtitles file).
>> The files are named
>> Sams_Journey.avi  and
>> Sams_Journey.srt
>>
>> If I play the avi file with mplayer, the subtitles do appear.
>> However,if I copy the avi file alone to another dir and I
>> play the avi file in that dir, the subtitles do not appear.
>>
>> Is there a way for me to incorporate the subtitles file into the
>> avi file, or (any other format, such as mpg or mp4)?
> If you first convert it to an mp4 using ffmpeg or avconv, example,
> then you can add the subtitles using MP4Box
> MP4Box -add file.srt file.mp4
>
> To convert to mp4 I use something like
> avconv -y -i file.avi -vcodec libx264 -pre libx264-medium -crf  22
> -threads 0 file.mp4
> You might have to add something for the audio track, I don't know.
> Mine are video only.  Also you may want to tweak the settings to get
> the quality you require.
>
> There may be better ways, but that is what I do.
>
> Colin
>
Will this work if I only want to convert to mpeg1 format?