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

[Michael Weishaar]

YES...  That did it, thank you!
I did a tcprobe on /dev/dvd and could see there were 2 en subtitle
options.  A quick test with mplayer -sid 1 showed the subtitles only in 
those scenes.  I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for that now.

I'm off to re-encode a couple of movies. :)

Michael


On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, RC wrote:

> 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.
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