[MEncoder-users] Subtitles: unable to playback vobsub

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 02 April 2006 at 03:57, Tim McCoy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been playing with subtitles lately, and wanted to know why I can't 
> seem to play back the subtitles. I encoded them using MEncoder, and I'm 
> attempting playback with MPlayer. The subtitles were grabbed using the 
> following:
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-extractsub.html
> 
> and the resulting .idx and .sub files seem fine. The first few lines of the 
> .idx files are
[...]
> ---------------------
> 
> ...but when attempting playback, the following occurs. I know the -slang 
> option isn't ideal, but the results are the same when using the -vobsub and 
> -vobsubid options. The files movie.avi, movie.idx and movie.sub are in the 
> same directory!
> 
> $ mplayer movie.avi -slang eng
> 
> ..I've only copied the really interesting parts of the debugging output.

... which is something we always tell you not to do. We need full mplayer -v
output. Always.


> ---------------------
> 
> Playing movie.avi.
> [vobsub] subtitle (vobsubid): 0 language en
> [vobsub] subtitle (vobsubid): 1 language en
> Selected VOBSUB language: 0 language: en
> .
> .
> .
> dvdsublang...movie eng
> SUB: Could not determine file format
> Cannot load subtitles: ./movie.sub
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> Versions as follows
> 
> MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 
> 0)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SS
> 
> Linux 2.6.15.2
> Debian Sid (not that recent, though)
> 
> Any ideas as to why the subtitle file cannot "be determined"? I can play 
> DVDs with subtitles fine with something like "mplayer dvd://1 -slang en". I 
> know this is probably an MPlayer question, but the MEncoder users might 
> know more!

MPlayer doesn't use VOBSubs automatically, you must use the -vobsub option.
In your case, it tries to parse the .sub file as a text subtitle and fails.

R.

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