[MEncoder-users] Why this doesnt work? (adding subtitle to film)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 24 January 2009 at 12:41, Francisco Antonio Vieira Souza wrote:
> What's wrong with this command line that the subtitle is not being written
> to the final file?
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -sub Milk.2008.DivX.srt -subfont-text-scale 3
                     ^^^^^^^^^
> -subpos 95 -subfont-outline 1 -subcp cp1250 Milk.2008.DivX.avi -o
> Milk.2008.DivX.LEG.avi

-ovc copy means "copy the video stream, unchanged". How can you expect
the subtitles to appear in the video stream if you're telling mencoder
not to modify it?

> BTW, I need to use (in subtitle) latin caracters (like ç, ã, etc), is
> correct to use that -subcp cp1250?

It depends on the encoding of the subtitle file.

Regards,
R.

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