Hardsubs ways?

[moonrains]

How do you hardsub MKV files (H264) with out lossing or increasing its size. well increasing at max of 5mb would do

[Koby]

How do you hardsub MKV files (H264) with out lossing or increasing its size. well increasing at max of 5mb would do

You can't do it without decrease in quality. Why? Because ANY and EVERY time you encode a file it looses a bit of quality which is why everyone suggests to encode from the original source each time instead of encoding from an encode. Of course to most people the quality loss isn't noticeable, but it's still there.

As far as file size goes, well honestly unless you increase the bit-rate you will gain fuzz around the subs often when hard-subbing. Therefore it often requires a higher file size. You can always test it out, but honestly I have never had a reason to bother with hard-subs.

It's soft-subs all the way for me.

[moonrains]

yea i know that. let me re-phrase . how do you just hardsub ?

[Koby]

You have to use avisynth to encode hard-sub into h264. I use to have a setup of VirtualDubMod with DirectVobSub plugin to hard-sub but it was only compatible with xvid and thus needed avisynth to make it work with h264. As for the script, I can't remember.

[moonrains]

My file is already H264. well i know how to use Megui.

[DrumRoll]

I use xvid4psp. Its a good converter and keeps the quality very well.

I had the same problem with hard subbing. Do you watch anime on a xbox/ps3?

[moonrains]

So I need to convert H264 to xvid? well yea u got me there. i wanna watch it both in PS3 and psp

[† L4ugh]

Handbrake will allow you to hardsub as well. Just click on the subtitles tab then add the subtitle you want and put a check in the Burned In check box.