[MPlayer-users] subtitles

[Kim Minh Kaplan]

Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> writes:

>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> I did, no solution there for me.
>
> BTW. the way to extract subtitles using mplayer (as described in man 
> page) doesnt work. It just doesnt do anything. I tried all kind of 
> things like this:
>
> mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dvd -v -sid 4 -dumpsub -ifo blablabla.ifo 
> -dumpfile test
>
> etc. etc. (with different combinations)
>
> did anyone succeeded in this?
>
> thanks
> domi
>
>
>> hi,
>> 
>> I am looking for an easy and fast way of making subtitles. I tried 
>> tcextract from transcode:
>> 
>> cat 00?.vob | tcextract -x ps1 -t vob -a 0x24 >  subtitle_2.ps1
>> 
>> (well, -sid 4 shows the right susbtitles while playing)
>> 
>> file is produced, but playing it with:
>> 
>> mplayer myavi.avi -sub subtitle_2.ps1
>> 
>> I get:
>> 
>> SUB: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer 2.0
>> SUB: Read 0 subtitles.
>> Can't load subtitles: subtitle_2.ps1
>> 
>> I tried also with different -vobsubid's, but without apparent success.
>> 
>> I'm using transcode-0.6.0rc1 and mplayer 0.90pre5-2.95.3
>> 
>> Any ideas? Or another way to make easy subtitles? Thank you.
>> 
>> bye
>> domi
>> 

Look closer, it's in DOCS/documentation.html and DOCS/encoding.html.
You should use mencoder and -vobsubout, not mplayer.  To play the
subtitle you use the -vobsub & -vobsubid options.  I don't know about
transcode.

Kim Minh.