[MEncoder-users] easy way to display subtitles for scenes?

[RC]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:00:53 -0700 (MST)
Michael Weishaar <michael.weishaar at cox.net> wrote:

> But for some movies, there are parts of the movie where they speak
> another language.  When playing the DVD in a player, there are English
> subtitles  displayed during those scenes.

I've seen DVDs mastered in one of two ways...

More commonly, one of the subtitle tracks only contains info for those
foreign-language segments of the movie.  eg. regular subtitles will be
-sid 0, and the subtitles you want will be -sid 1.  

Less commonly, they used "forced" subtitles.  To display them, you
select the subtitle track in your language with -slang or -sid, but also
use the -forcedsubsonly option of MPlayer/Mencoder to only display them
where needed.