And obviously, VLC can't do that, otherwise I'd definitely know it by now. I automatically assumed those fancy subtitles were an SMPlayer-only thing, or very near to it, when it was the only video player I've seen with subtitles like that. Well, as mentioned, I suspect I'd have to edit the subtitles and get rid of that coding anyway. When I'm presented with such highly formatted subs I just burn them in which saves me time and gives me the same formatting and look. So in other words don't rely on me to get your soft subs into working order. you will have to convert them to standard SRT type subtitles and that doesn't support all the fancy stuff that is in your subtitles now). I can give you more details based on which way you want to go but if you choose to go soft subs then it will be on you to edit the subs to get them working (and you will not be able to have them formatted as they are now.
When playing a M2TS directly on the PS3 it can be cropped (or not) but you are limited to 1 audio stream and it does not support soft subtitles. Now the PS3 can play a M2TS file directly but this is TOTALLY different from AVCHD. The benefit is you can have multiple audio streams and multiple soft subtitle streams.
If you do it this way then you can create a M2TS or MP4 file and you can leave the resolution at 960x720ĪVCHD uses M2TS but it can't be cropped (as I said before). Not only will it look "proper" but it requires less work. In this way you can keep the exact formatting of the subs. In this case the better option, in my opinion, would be to re-encode the video and BURN IN the subtitles. So basically you want to add 160 pixels of black to either side which will make it 1280 in total for the width.Īgain if you make an AVCHD then you can use soft subtitles but you will probably have to edit the subtitles to get them to work. So if you want to make an AVCHD then you have to re-encode the video to make it 1280x720 because right now you have 960x720 and that will NOT work for making an AVCHD.
So does anyone have any ideas? I wanna be able to play these on the PS3, with soft-subs.ĪVCHD cannot be cropped. Maybe I could get rid of that.) However, there'd still be the problem of the subtitles not showing up on the PS3. Looks like there's some coding that causes those fancy subtitles. (Take a look at the glitchy subtitles from the VLC playback. Maybe I could extract the subtitles from this video file, and remove all the coding for those fancy subtitles. I had an idea that maybe Handbrake can apply an external subtitle file to a video conversion. (They'd be all glitched up anyway, as you can see.)ĭoes anyone have any idea how I can convert these into a format the PS3 can play with soft-subs? Keep in mind that these are the most finnicky video files I've ever seen, and barely anything can play them, let alone convert them. The PS3 can PLAY this file thanks to Handbrake's conversion. The bad news is that they're all glitched up.Īlso, despite being soft-subbed, they're done in a way that the PS3 can't seem to detect them. On one hand, the subtitles ARE soft-subbed, and I can turn them on or off in VLC. Handbrake can convert these, but it can't get the subtitles quite right.
Notice how half of the top line is either rainbow-colored, or faded out? That's because the people who made these videos were able to make the subtitles all fancy for lyrics, letting the colors of certain words change as they were sung (as in the opening), or actually moving and fading out (in the ending, any words that are sung actually move to the left a little and fade out). And after opening up SMPlayer, I can see why. But it does have one problem: the subtitles. Handbrake doesn't seem to have a problem with converting these for the most part. mts, and probably a few more I'm missing. What I want is to be able to play it on the PS3, but I want it soft-subbed, so I can activate or deactivate subtitles from the PS3's video menu whenever I want. Mkv2vob gets an "Unsupported audio codec" error when I try to use it. MultiAVCHD can't seem to encode this file. I've got some video files, and whoever encoded them essentially set the difficulty for playback on the PS3 to hard mode.