[MEncoder-users] reencoding from a mkv with subtitles

[Phil Ehrens]

Marc Cousin wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 18:02, Marc Cousin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 17:45, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> > > I have misplaced the original post, but did you say that
> > > the subs looked okay in mplayer? If so, you can output
> > > mpegpes video from mplayer and reencode that to make your
> > > avi.
> >
> > you're right, that may be a solution...
> > do you know of a way to decode full speed (it will be slow to convert, if i
> > can't do that :) )
> with -vo mpegpes:file.mpeg, subtitles aren't displayed at all ... :(

Hmmm... when I have done it, the vobsub file was seperate.
You may have to demux the .mkv file and use the -vobsub
and -vobsubid options.

BTW, I found an apparently undocumented feature of the
-x mplayer option to transcode:

http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/transcode-devel/2003-03/msg00018.html

Which I am going to try and get more info about on the
transcode mailing list...

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