[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD subtitles problem, false report or still a bug?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> A'rpi wrote:
> >> If you (developers :) still treat it as a bug then let me know and I'll
> >> upload a part of the mpeg stream.
> >we don't need  the steram. the bug is at .ifo level
> 
> I do not think so -- I've created mpeg stream with -dumpstream and the
> selected the subtitles while playing the dumped stream -- there were the
> subtitles (only printed in unreadable black).  So I think that tha bug may
> be somewhere after mpeg2 demuxing...
nope.
the subtitles are stored in the mpeg stream, it's true.
but the language <-> -sid mapping table, and the palette (color of subtitle)
are stored in the .ifo files. and teh mapping tabel is bad, it says you bad
number for your language, and not only this, but i also lies about the
number of total subtitles...

> Anyway the subtitles work for me and I'm happy with that :)
> If there only was a way for dumping the dvd subtitles to some plain format
> for reuse with divx...
> (AFAIK the problem was already discussed on the list...)

it needs some specuial OCR soft...
i'm interested in such app too, but i have bo idea about handling italic
characters. we should get some windows dvd sub ripping proggys source and
port it to linux.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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