In order to emded subtitles in a avi movie on a linux system, first download the appropriate subtitles for the movie. This usually has the extension of .srt. Make sure that you have transcode and mplayer are installed on your linux machine and then run the following command
transcode -i input.avi -x mplayer=”-sub subfile.srt” -o outputfile.avi -y xvid
and you have the outputfile.avi with embedded with the subtitles.
ENJOY

