[MEncoder-users] Subtitles do not appear in output .avi

[christopher floess]

I usually run the movie in verbose, find the sid I want, and use the -sid
option.
'man mplayer | grep sid' should help you some more ~ Chris

On 5/25/07, Iain Masterson <slowiain at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> MEncoder has served me well for all that it has been used for, however,
> now
> I need to hard-code subtitles into an .avi but they never appear.
>
> Here is a command line example (I have simplified this; regardless, I get
> the same results no mattter which options I use. Note: I always use x264
> and
> mp3lame):
>
> mencoder input.avi -o output.avi -ovc x264 -oac mp3lame -sub subtitles.sub
>
> When opened in textpad the .sub file looks like this:
>
> {60}{200} SUBTITLE TEST
>
> I'm sure this is a class-A newbie question, but I'd appreciate the help.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Iain.
>
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