[MPlayer-dev-eng] Wishlist

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 05:34:49PM +0200, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote:
> > I don't know why the vobsub stuff went in mencoder as-is, it seems a
> > pain to have to run through an encode just to get vobsubs out.
> 
> Where would you have put it?  Most of the time I do a 3-pass encoding,
> so I use those pass to rip the first three subtitles...  Putting this
> in mplayer or in a separate program would have required up to three
> more passes to get vobsubs out.

Why three more passes? It should just be one extra pass. But I get
what you mean, I supposed it's nice to be able to do both at the same
time if you're ripping subs and encoding.

> Note that you don't really need to encode the movie, just -oac copy
> -ovc frameno -o /dev/null is sufficient for when you have more than
> three subtitle streams.

Yeah I know, that's how I would do it. Just not the most intuitive
IMO. Once mencoder progresses, it will probably eventually be able to
do things like stream dumping, vobsub dumping, mpsub dumping, etc.
without going through the normal encoding process, but right now it
seems a little clunky. Not your fault, it's more that mencoder started
out as a quick hack.

Rich