There's gotta be a way . . .

I was given an avi film that is in Mandarin Chinese. The problem is, the movie has Portuguese subtitles hard-coded into it, and unfortunately, I don't speak Portuguese , only being fluent in English and Bad English.

Is there any way to recode the movie without the Portuguese subtitles? I'd like to pull out the Portuguese subtitles, and replace them with English subtitles so I can tell who's who and what's what.

There's just gotta be a way to extract hard-coded subtitles from an avi. Nothing is impossible.

I'm using a G4 Emac, OS 10.4.11.

Dave

It depends on how it was encoded, but it was likely using something like Virtuadub, in which case the subtitles are now part of the movie encode itself.

If it's a commercial film that's been ripped, it can't be discussed here anyway, but either way, you'll either have to learn Portuguese or get hold of the source.

If it's in there...then you have to crop the whole movie and start from there. >_<"

Alternatively, depending on the exact nature of the movie (theme and length), you could ask someone on an internet forum who speaks portugese to translate it and than you could put in an extra english subtitle.