[MPlayer-users] Need help with subtitles

[Stefan Lange]

Michael Stucki wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi all,
> 
> last week I bought a new DVD.
> 
> The film contains German tracks as well as English ones. But in both of
> them, there are parts in a different language (say it's Russian - it's a
> Bond movie ;-)). These parts do contain a special subtitle with a
> translation (either English or German).
> 
> Now my problem is that Xine _can_ display them while mplayer can't.
> When I choose to permanently show a subtitle (using -slang) everything
> works, but that's not what I want. I just want to get these parts commented
> that are not in my native language.
> 
> Anyone?
> 

That's just a guess, but maybe there's an extra subtitle-track on the 
dvd which contains these "partial" subs. If so, you could choose it by 
specifying it with "-sid NUMBER". You'll have to find out the correct 
NUMBER by trial and error though...

regards
Stefan

> Thanks, Michael
> 
>