Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of HowToBurnSubtitlesIntoVideo

Timestamp:

May 29, 2013, 10:50:39 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

llogan

Comment:

fix links, cleanup, nitpicking

HowToBurnSubtitlesIntoVideo

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-You can burn text subtitles with one of two filters: `subtitles` or `ass`.
+You can burn text subtitles (hardsubs) with one of two filters: `subtitles` or `ass`.
 
 == `subtitles` filter ==
-As of Nov 29, 2012 you can also simply use the [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#subtitles-1 subtitles filter]:
+Draw subtitles on top of input video using the libass library. This filter requires `ffmpeg` to be compiled with `--enable-libass`. See the [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#subtitles-1 subtitles video filter documentation] for more details.
 
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-This filter requires `ffmpeg` to be compiled with `--enable-libass` (if you are building FFmpeg yourself, look for the `libass-dev` package on Debian-like distributions).
 
 == `ass` filter ==
-Using FFmpeg's [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#ass ass video filter] (see Wikipedia for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubStation_Alpha#Advanced_SubStation_Alpha Advanced SubStation Alpha]), we can draw text of the subtitles into the movie, like this:
+Same as the subtitles filter, except that it doesn’t require libavcodec and libavformat to work. This filter requires `ffmpeg` to be compiled with `--enable-libass`. On the other hand, it is limited to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubStation_Alpha#Advanced_SubStation_Alpha ASS (Advanced Substation Alpha)] subtitles files. See the [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#ass ass video filter documentation] for more details.
+
 {{{
 ffmpeg -i video.avi -vf "ass=subtitle.ass" out.avi
 }}}
 
-As with the `subtitles` filter, this filter requires `ffmpeg` to be compiled with `--enable-libass`.
-
-If your subtitle is in `SubRip`, `MicroDVD` or any other supported text subtitles, you have to convert it to ASS before using the filter:
+If your subtitle is in `SubRip`, `MicroDVD` or any other supported text subtitles, you have to convert it to ASS before using this filter:
 {{{
 ffmpeg -i subtitle.srt subtitle.ass
 }}}
 
-For Windows users [http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=318&start=20 this link] may be useful, as you have to setup font paths just right to get libass to work
+Windows users will have to [http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=318&start=20 setup font paths] to get libass to work
 
 == picture based subtitles ==
 
-You can burn "picture based" subtitles into a movie as well (for instance, dvdsub is a type of picture based overlay subtitles), by using the overlay filter to overlay the images. Here is an example - an MKV with dvdsub subtitles in a separate stream:
+You can burn "picture based" subtitles into a movie as well (for instance, dvdsub is a type of picture based overlay subtitles), by using the [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#overlay-1 overlay video filter] to overlay the images. Example of an MKV with dvdsub subtitles in a separate stream:
 
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