HowTo: Embedding Non-english subtitle into iphone videos

After more than 4 hours, finally I can successfully embed hebrew/arabic subtitles into my iphone videos. For a matter of fact, googling this has took me to many various areas of iphone / video encoding which is not really what i am looking for.

So here is a short brief for what you need to do in order to add subtitles for iphone videos:
The process works in two phases:

• VirtualHub
  Adding subtitle to your video
• MediaCoder
  Converting your avi file to mp4; playable by your iphone.

Full procedure:

• Install required software:
  - VirtualDub
  - Vobsub plugin for virtualdub. (choose TextSub plugin during installation)
  - 'MediaCode ipod edition'
  
• Run virtualDub and load u'r video file
• Add "TestSub" filter to u'r session (Menu: Video->filters->Add)
• Navigate to u'r subtitle in TextSub configuration menu and choose the required font under "styles"
• Choose compression mode to be Mpeg4-Xvid.
• Save file
• Open MediaCoder and load the file u just saved
• Choose iphone as target resolution
• hit 'Start'
• Done. :)

I decided not to post links to installation software since links might be broken with the time, and googling them is quite simple operation.


Goodluck :)