How do I burn this?
 

I'm downloading a Japanese drama series but the subs are seperate files from the videos. I'm wanting to burn copies for people. I've tried a program I have that encodes (if there's a sub file for the video, it embeds it in the encoded file). I guess my files are kinda crappy because it encoded half of it and the video froze, audio kept going, about a quarter of the way through. Any ideas on how I can burn it with my subs and all the video there in as good of quality as I can get?

You can have them separated and play your videos using Media Player Classic. Just rename the .srt files the same as the video and the program will catch them by itself: whatever.avi & whatever.srt in the same folder.

In case you want to embed into the file, try with Virtual Dub and Matroska or OGM codecs. Both of them allow, with direct stream copy, not re-encoding the file but insert the subs as 'tracks'.

If you want to Hard Sub your files like I did, then try a program called AVI ReComp....its really good imo. This does insert the subtitles into the actual video so afterwards you don't need the srt files anymore and when you burn them ala DVD format it will play with the subtitles.

Unless you want to view these files on some sort of device that can't handle soft-subs I see no reason why you would want to combine the video and sub files. For the simple reason that in order to do so you would have to re-encode the video file, which would degrade the quality of the video stream and thus leaving you with lower quality video.