[MPlayer-dev-eng] NOVIRUS Bug 188 - [Patch] add vob subtitle to mencoder.

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Jan 12 00:01:58 CET 2005


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:40:30PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 January 2005 at 20:32, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:11:37AM -0800, ha shao wrote:
> > > Vobsub is quite popular but mencoder don't support it.
> > > This patch add the -vobsub -vobsubid to mencode.
> > > 
> > > The codes were mostly copy & paste from mplayer's
> > > vobsub sessions (FIXME: tags included). I don't really
> > > know what I was doing but it simply works for me.
> > 
> > Has anybody checked this patch?
> > I think his functionality should be added to mencoder.
> > I have a user of encode2mpeg that was wondering why subtitles
> > were not rendered in his SVCD some time.
> > 
> > The answer is that when encode2mpeg uses MPlayer to create the yuv4mpeg
> > stream to be processed by mpeg2enc, MPlayer open and render the subtitles
> > automatically (except if you give -noautosub).
> > When encode2mpeg uses MEncoder to create the output stream, the
> > subtitles are not loaded. 
> > I would like that MEncoder does one of the following:
> > 
> > 1) as MPlayer, load and render the subtitles automatically except if
> > you give -noautosub
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > 2) if you give the option -autosub, load and render the subtitles
> > automatically; otherwise keep the current beaviour (no subtitles loading).
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I vote for the second option. I wouldn't want it to create hardsubs unless
> I specifically tell it to.

agree totally! mencoder should NEVER render subs by default!!!

rich




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