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Hi,
I am using external subtitle files in the ass format.
What I do is the following: I record audio and video to a file with the command:
vlc.ext dshow:// --sout "#std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=video.avi}"

Then I playback with a specifically generated subtitle file in the ass format.

As far as I can see only asf works with these external ass subtitles.

If I mux to ts, vlc refuses to play as long as there are subtitle files. I mean if the file video.ass exists in the same directory and I open the video.avi in VLC, it doesn't play. I the video.ass is removed, it plays correctly. Windows media player plays, but without subtitles
If I mux to ps, vlc plays, but no subtitles. WMP does the same.
If I mux to asf, vlc plays correctly with subtitles. WMP does not play.

Is this normal behavior?
I am NOT trying to mux the subtiles into the videofile. I explicitly need them separately.
I would prefer to mux my video directly to ts or ps.

I'm using VLC1.1.11 on a i5 running Windows 7 32-bit

VLC doesn't parse TS timecodes, so subtitles won't work with TS files.

And inserting RAW video and audio to most container formats won't work correctly. So transcode.