Some movies that i have downloaded, need English subtitles for the foreign language sections. For instance 'The Last Samurai'. English then bla bla in Japanese.

What I'm asking is, how do you get the subtitles inside the movie file and not have an extra file? Because some movies i download already have this done and some have not. So i know it can be done.

I tried to google it, but i don't know what its called, so i don't know where to start.

Thank you for any help.

Use VLC player to watch all videos (best one by far, plays everything) go to the top menu, click video and scroll down to subtitles and hey presto. If there are no subs then you will have to google search (www.allsubs.org) for instance.

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you trying to rip subs off a DVD? Or create a subs file from embedded subs using OCR? Bottom line is that you can pretty much do anything.

In theory a multiple-language movie, like "The Last Samurai" might have been ripped into an AVI with embedded sub-titles, for those sections where the actors are speaking a language different than the soundtrack.

Google sub rip, or rip subs, or subtitle OCR for a start.

^{Thank you too the both of you. I will get back on to google and get searching again, now i have somewhere to start.}

You can pack the movie file and the subtitle file into a single MKV file, where MKV is actually a container.For that you would need the Mkvmerge software which is open source and free for download.

Unless you really want to start re-encoding movie files to embed subtitles, I'd just use the external approach of downloading .sub or .srt files (depending what you are using to play the movies in question). You just keep the files in the same direfctory (they should have exactly the same filename if you are using certain media players).

What you need is the mkvtoolnix tool. This tool will create an mkv file out of non mkv format videos, or allow you to edit (add/remoive) the contents of mkv format video files.

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

The mkv format will allow you to store multiple audio and subtitles files inside the mkv container, alongside the video file.

Unless you really want to start re-encoding movie files to embed subtitles, I'd just use the external approach of downloading .sub or .srt files (depending what you are using to play the movies in question). You just keep the files in the same direfctory (they should have exactly the same filename if you are using certain media players).

The mkvmerge (mkvtoolnix) software does not re-encode the video.

Avidemux will recode, filter, add subtitles. I have used it many times and it simply works, but can be a bit of challenge to understand it all. There is good help available, check Google.

If you are loking for the subtitles to be already embedded, just put in the search the extra word "hardcoded". Hardcoded simply means its already been added to the movie and cant be changed or removed.

I prefer the subtitles in a separate file,

then they are easier to turn off.

I've been using Sublight for a few years. (Runs slower as I haven't paid but ok for occasional work). Simply select the movie file on hard drive requiring subtitles and it searches the subtitles for you to choose and renames the file to match that of your hard drive movie file name to play on most players.