need to embed subtitles and combine video files

[midnightfire]

okay so i have a movie that's in a foreign language, and it's split into two files, both of which are .avi's. they have their own separate subtitle tracks, but every time i want to watch the movie in vlc media player, i have to manually add the subtitle tracks. plus, having the first part cut out in the middle of an action scene is annoying. i've tried windows movie maker, but it says my computer doesn't have the right codec (don't know which codec it's talking about). i need some way to combine the files and embed the subtitle tracks. any help is greatly appreciated.

[Ryder17z]

To find the codec, you could try Gspot

[midnightfire]

problem is, i don't know which codec it's talking about, and gspot gives 719 video and 245 audio compression formats.

[Broni]

ConvertXToDVD will burn avi files along with subs to DVD.
It's not free though.

[midnightfire]

i've already got burning software, i just want to combine the .avi files and embed the accompanied subtitle files in the videos.

[Broni]

When you burn the movie with the subtitles into DVD, then you can rip DVD to have .avi file with hardcoded subs.

[midnightfire]

oh okay, so i have to burn a dvd with the videos and subs, then rip it and i have what i'm after? is that the only way?

[Broni]

There may be some programs, which will hardcode subs into .avi file, but as far, as I remember, try to solve same issue, it was too complicated.
You don't even have to burn actual DVD.
Burning program, converts .avi file to DVD format, first, creating a folder video_TS with .VOB files in it.
Just point ripping program to video_TS folder and the program will do the rest.

[midnightfire]

will i be able to do this with nero?

[Broni]

I'm not familiar with Nero, but DVD file format is always the same, regardless of burning program.

[midnightfire]

alright, i'll try it with nero.