How to Burn Arabic Subtitles into an Avi File      

If your stand alone DVD player does not support Arabic characters, one of the solutions is to burn (hard-code) the subtitles file into the movie. To do this, you need the following freeware:

1. VirtualDub .

2. DivX Codec

3. DirectVobSub When installing VobSub, make sure that, as shown below, you have included the "VobSub for Virtual Dub" plugin and the "TextSub for Virtual Dub" plugin.

Once you've installed/extracted VirtualDub, follow the following steps: 

 1. Click File and select Open video file

 2. The following window will open. Select your avi file.

3. Click Audio and select Source audio and Direct stream copy

Note: If, after loading your avi file, you receive the following message :

Click OK and select Full processing mode to recompress the Audio as well.

4. Click Video and select Full processing mode

 5. Select Filters .

6. A dialogue box will appear with an empty list of filters. Click the Add button.

7. A new dialogue box will appear with a list of filters. If TextSub is not available on the list, click the Load button.

8. Go to Vobsub folder and locate textsub.vdf in the VobSub program files directory.

9. Double click TextSub 2.23 .

10. A dialogue box entitled TextSub Settings will appear. Click the Open button to load the subtitles appropriate to the movie.

 Then click OK and OK again to get back to the main VirtualDub screen.

12. The next step is to compress your avi file. Under the Video menu, select Compression

13. The following window will appear. Select the DivX Codec .

14. Go to the File menu and select Save as Avi , to save your project.

In no more than half an hour, your movie plus subtitles will be ready for burning. Enjoy !

Acknowledgments :

Thanks are due to Ade at Divxstation for the basic material of this tutorial.