[MEncoder-users] Burning subtitles into Vorbis

[Grozdan]

2009/9/4 Jon Cosby <jon.l.cosby at gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to burn subtitles into a Vorbis video (OGV -> OGV). I thought
> this would be a straight copy,
>
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -sub subtitles.srt ...
>
> But mencoder throws out the error
>
>    Audio format 0x73627276 is incompatible with '-oac copy',
>    please try '-oac pcm' instead or use '-fafmttag' to
>    override it.
>
> So I tried replacing "copy" with "pcm," and get a long string of "Skipping
> frame" messages, and when I play the new file in mplayer, the video is not
> detected. Will someone direct me here?

You can't burn subs into the video when using -ovc copy. Copy means
"copy the video 1:1 *without* any modification". If it'll be able to
burn subs with -ovc copy, the video will be modified, thus it won't be
copying anymore

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> Jon
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