Hey guys, two quick questions

1. What's a good program to use that I can burn an avi file to a dvd and it will play in a dvd player/ps2/etc?

2. What's a way I can burn aforementioned file that has subtitles and have them display properly in said dvd player/ps2/etc?

Thanks in advance.

1)Encode using TMPEG, burn using nero

2)Hard subs or soft subs?

Erm, stupid question, but how do I tell?

Hard subs are a part of the video (the vast majority of fansubs are). Soft subs are ones that are added to the video by the playback software, and can be turned on and off. Getting either onto DVDs has its troubles. Hard-subbed stuff rarely takes safe titling areas into account so risk getting cut off by the TV overscan area, unless you resize the video while encoding to leave a black band around it in the overscan area (not an ideal solution because it looks dreadful on non-overscanned displays, ie. computer playback, and may still not stop the subs getting cut off). Getting soft subs to work requires decent DVD authoring software - the majority of consumer packages don't even support subtitles at all, and those that do are often fiddly, requiring you to make the subpictures in an external package, tie them to a text file with the timings in and import the lot. The only software I've encountered that can import text subtitle scripts properly (and generate the subpictures at render time) is Adobe Encore, and even then it needs a bit of fiddling around to get the timings correct. The results are worth it though.

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Also, a monumentally dumb question, where do I get TMPEG? I'm having trouble finding it >.<

Its correct name is in fact "TMPGEnc".

http://www.tmpgenc.net/