[MEncoder-users] SUB: Could not determine file format

[Florian Erfurth]

Phil Oleynik wrote:

> Florian Erfurth wrote:
>> Hi Phil, thank you for your quick response.
>>
>> Phil Oleynik wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Florian Erfurth wrote:
>>>     
>>>> [snip]
>>>> I did try following command:
>>>> mencoder -sws 9 -vf scale=480:256,harddup -sub
>>>> /home/floh/temp/movie.sub -vf scale=480:256 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
>>>> bitrate=768:vhq=1:max_bframes=0:cartoon -nosound
>>>> /home/floh/temp/movie.avi -o /home/floh/temp/output.avi
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunatelly the subtitle from movie.sub doesn't appears in
>>>> output.avi. If I look the output of mencoder, I see such error-message:
>>>>   
>>>> SUB: Could not determine file format
>>>> Cannot load subtitles: /home/floh/temp/movie.sub
>>>> <<<
>>>>       
>>> probably you lack .idx file with timings, languages, etc.
>>>     
>> Oh, there is a .idx-file. But it still doesn't works (tried with the
>> command, see in last post from me). How should I handle .sub & .idx in
>> order to put into avi-movie? How should a mencoder+arguments look like? I
>> thought my tried command is right, isn't it?
>> Is it sufficient, if .avi, .sub and .idx files does have all the same
>> filename (like movie.avi, movie.sub, movie.idx)? Maybe I'm missing
>> somewhat (e.g. libraries?), huh?
>>
>> cu Floh
>>   
> You do not need any additional libraries, vobsub subtitles are
> uncompressed bitmaps.
> To display them, say
> 
>        -vobsub <VOBsub file without extension>
>               Specify  a VOBsub file to use for subtitles.  Has to be
> the full
>               pathname without extension, i.e. without the '.idx',
> '.ifo'  or
>               '.sub'.
It would be if only it would works:
-vobsub is not an MEncoder option

:( Is there a way with mencoder?

Thank you!
Floh