[MPlayer-users] vcd with multiple audio/subtitle languages?

[Steffen Barszus]

On Friday 27 September 2002 11:32, Josef Wolf wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>

> Are those additional streams mux'ed into the main mpeg stream or are
> they on separate files? If they are in the main mpeg, then mplex would
> be the tool which should be modified. If they are separate files, then
> it is up to vcdimager. Is this correct?
>
> BTW: How would you choose the language/subtitle with mplayer on such a
> svcd?

Dunno, since such svcds are mainly for standalone-players. I don't have one, 
and for my vdr-machine mpeg4/ogm is more interesting. I surfed around 
yesterday:

maybe this is interesting for you:
ftp://ftp.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/contribs - the package 
svcd-subtitles.tar.gz seems to provide some information on svcd-subtitles. In 
the forum of doom9.org was also a discussion about this. It seems there are 2 
types of subtitles. first there are the CVD-type subtitles as I-author does. 
About CVD Specs there is a article at vcdhelp.com (mainly as I remember 
352x576/520 , mpeg2, playable too on some only vcd-able standalone-dvds) 
The second sort of subtitles are the OGT-subs, these seems to be the standard 
ones and there seems to be the tool winsubmux, that is able to do that, and 
the above package(svcd-subtitles.tar.gz) seems to produce OGT-subs. As I 
understood the subs are muxed into the mpeg-stream, so mplex should do this. 
On vcdimager.org and vcdhelp.com are too some samples of svcd with subs.
Since I'm not a developer all I can do is to provide infos I find on the net. 
Hope this is helpful. Too I fear this isn't the right list to discuss all 
this. Dunno about mplayer-abilities to play svcds with switchable subs ...

Steffen