[MPlayer-users] Adding permanent subtitle with mplayer ?

[Stefan Lange]

Kjetil Byklum wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I have been trying to add a permanent subtitle to a videofile by use of 
> mplayer (mux video and subtitle). Playing audio+video+subtitles with mplayer 
> works ok, so I had hoped that it would be possible to dump this result 
> into one file. 
> 
> The problem is that both the audio and the subtitle disappeares from the 
> result of my mux trial :-(.
>  
> Any ideas how this can be done ..?
> 
> 
> This is the mplayer command I used for muxing video,audio and subtitle :
> ************************ 
> mplayer <videofile> -audiofile <audiofile> -vobsub <subfile> -vobsubid 0 
> -dumpstream -dumpfile <muxed-file>
> ************************
> 

-dumpstream will dump the stream of the original file without changes

If you want to add permanent subtitles you'll have to reencode the 
videostream (which will of course decrease quality)


> 
> Thanks.
> 
> /Kjetil
> 
> 
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