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Hard burn subtitles

Postby speechyS » 02 Aug 2019 11:28

Hope someone can help me. I'm trying to hard burn subtitles into a mp4. Have had success using "stream" but now when I follow the exact same process, and click stream at the end, nothing happens? Previously a VLC window would open and you could see it processing, but now, nothing. Any ideas? Thanks,

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Re: Hard burn subtitles

Postby ekrabappel » 03 Aug 2019 00:32

Out of curiosity.... why? Most people despise hard burnt subtitles as you lose the ability to change the look/size of the text and you can never turn them off. In fact I can't think of any reasons why you would want hard burnt.

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Re: Hard burn subtitles

Postby speechyS » 05 Aug 2019 10:33

So that I can post the subtitled video in other places (instagram TV and other social media). Have written the subs in youtube and would rather not rewrite. If you have a better way of getting the video to play with subtitles in social media, I'd love to hear it please!
On the original question, do you know why VLC now wont stream for me?

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Re: Hard burn subtitles

Postby Ed Edison » 05 Aug 2019 18:46

Hello,

An example for Windows 10, last release, VLC 3.0.6; the subtitle file is "G:\Try\ClpIntro_II.srt"

vlc.exe --no-repeat --no-loop -I rc -vv --no-lua --sub-margin=0 --text-renderer=freetype2 --freetype-font="Mistral" --freetype-color=15465577 --freetype-outline-thickness=0 --freetype-shadow-distance=0.03 "G:\Try\ClpIntro_II.mp4" --swscale-mode=10 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,scale=Auto,soverlay}:file{mux=mp4,dst="G:\Try\ClipIntro_2.mp4"}

If problem, see the Log file

Good luck.

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Re: Hard burn subtitles

Postby speechyS » 06 Aug 2019 15:03

Thank you.

Just for info, I've worked out the problem - I was trying to write to a shared drive, which didn't like me using an existing video and writing to the same drive at the same time. Forgive me for poor explanation, this isn't my area of expertise. Just explaining in case it helps anyone else in distress!


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