| To get working Thai subs, go for VOBSUB (which comes as a pair of files, one .sub file and one .idx file). NOT to be confused with micro-DVD subs, which is a text based format that also has the file ending .sub, but are standalone subtitles.
If you get text based subtitles your operating system needs to support Thai, and arranging that can be a bitch.
VOBSUB subtitles are bitmap-based subtitles and are compatible with most decent software media players, such as VLC, as well as some of the better standalone DVD players.
Among media boxes, DvicO's TviX players is one of the few offering support for VOBSUB subtitles, whereas the NMT platform has yet to add support in their firmware; it is in the pipeline though.
The downside with VOBSUB subtitles is that due to their graphics-based format, they take up a lot more space than text-based formats. This in turn means that burning one DVDrip to one CD will generally not be possible, since DVDrips in AVI format typically are sized to fit exactly on a CD (695-700MB) and a VOBSUB subtitle set is typically several MBs, so they won't fit together.
The solution is to watch from your computer's hard disk, save to an external hard disk, or to DVDs as data files.
For this reason it is worth investing a few thousand baht in a DVD player that will play your XviD and DivX AVI files from a DVD disc.
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