For starters, the PlayStation fails to recognize most video files with embedded subtitle streams.
Drop an AVI and SRT subtitle file together on your console, and it’ll merrily ignore the latter.
For a long time, hardcoding seemed the only viable option, albeit incredibly time-consuming.
Little do most people know there’s a far easier solution to play AVI files on Playstation 3.
With a regular AVI and subtitle file, here’s how to make a DivX file in a flash.
This tutorial will work on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel) and Linux.
The most popular one of them is SRT.
Before we can cook up a subtitled DivX file, we’ll need said subtitles.
Luckily, it’s not too hard to find subtitles for a popular video - even in foreign languages.
Once installed, it’s possible for you to use it to open EXE and other Windows-native files.
Most work, like installing those applications, needs to be done only once.
From now on, the process will hardly take over a minute of your time.
Open AVIAddXSubs and select both video and subtitles.
Select or pop in the path to your AVI and SRT files.
For example, refer to the screenshot above.
If you want, you’re free to select up to eight different subtitle streams this way.
HittingStartwill commence file processing, which shouldn’t take long.
The resulting DivX file has embedded subtitle streams and can be played on your PlayStation 3.
