How to play movie with subtitles using DLNA server

I don't own your DVD player, but I too have problems with subtitles on my DVD player (a modest AG). It works if I convert the subtitles to a SUB format. MicroDVD on my case.

Since you don't want to mux the subtitles, you have very few options. There's nothing wrong with your srt. This is controlled by your dvd player chipset. Either srt is entirely not supported, or the chipset contains a bug (unfortunately common on many asian-made models). Some hardcore ripping folks on the net know all the details on many of these chipsets. So you may want to open your dvd player, get the chipset make and model and travel to such places like Doom9, for further info.

Finally, if your DVD player is DivX Certified, you can convert your srt to XSUB. It won't matter if you then mux or not. It will play in that format.

Best of luck.

To be clear, there's nothing you can do other than trying to convert your srt to other formats or mux the subtitles.

But since you seem interested in playing ripped videos in your DVD player, let me give you a piece of advise: As soon as possible get yourself a DivX Certified DVD player. There's much better subtitle support on these devices.

You will need these:
- VirtualDUB
- SRT-SSA Converter
- VirtualDub Subtitler Plug-in

Getting Started

• The first step is opening up VirtualDub. You then want to go into the Video tab and select Filters or for convinience sake, simply press Ctrl+F. Then press the Add button followed by the Load button. You now want find the subtitler.vdf file you downloaded before and finish the operation by pressing Open.
• Leave VirtualDub open, as we will need it for later steps.
• Once you have acquired the subtitle file you want for the .avi you have, make sure you put them in the same folder. I would recommend creating a new folder on the Desktop for convinience.

Converting subtitles

• The next step is converting the .srt files into something VirtualDub can read, in this case, an .ssa file.
• Open up the .SRT-.SSA Converter and click on Browse to select the .srt file you want converted.
• The program will now automatically create an output file with the identical name as the input file except with an .ssa extension.
• All you have to do now is hit Convert and wait until it is done processing.

Adding subtitles into VirtualDub

• Its now time to go back to VirtualDub which should still be open.
• Go to the Video tab and select Full Processing Mode.
• Now go to File and Open Video File... and use the browse function to select the .avi file you want the subtitles hardcoded to. Press Open when you find it.
• Once the video has opened, go once again to the Video tab and select Filters again.
• Press the Add button, and navigate down to the Subtitler option and press OK.
• Select the .ssa you created earlier and press OK

Selecting the Compression

• The final step is selecting the compression for our .avi.
• Navigate once again to the Video tab and this time press on Compression.
• If your file is an XviD (most will be) then simply select XviD Mpeg-4 Codec from the list. Leave the default settings.
• If your file is another type of compression select that from the list and leave the default settings.

Saving your file and finishing up

• To finish up simply go to File and select Save As .avi or simply press F7 for convinience. Save it where you want and make sure the Save as type is set to audio-video interleave (avi).
• Click Save and you are done. Sit back and wait for your .avi with hardcoded subtitles.

Source

As for the tool for editing subtitles, just take a look at what SuperUser/Google suggest. I don't think I could think of anythink better that what is already there. :)