[MPlayer-users] Re: Dumping CC subtitles

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On Sat, 31 May 2003 13:23:25 -0500,
Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> 
> ephemeron at softhome.net wrote:

> > > Excellent question. This would be great for transcoding as
> > > well, since one could get text subtitles without OCRing the
> > > DVD subtitles.
> > 
> > You could always get one off the Internet ;-).
> Get one what?

The subtitles.  Look at the smiley.

> > Yes, an option to extract them (via either mplayer or mencoder)
> > would be a nice feature, inasmuch as mplayer proper can already
> > display it.  Or is already implemented and all I have to do is
> > more RTFM?
> 
> Are you trying to wittily imply that mplayer or mencoder can
> dump DVD closed captions? If that capability exists, it's not
> in the manpage or manual. There is the -dumpsub option, which
> "Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams." The -dump*sub
> options convert external subtitles specified with -sub (not
> -subcc) into other formats.
> 
> Please don't RTFM me unless you actually understand what I'm
> talking about. You clearly don't.

You've had a bad day, right?  Please look at what I really wrote
above.  Even in my grammatically flawed English, I wasn't telling
*YOU* to RTFM.  *I* was referring to myself ("all I have to do").

> I quote from the manual:

[...]

> MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently
> the following formats are supported:
> 
>      * VobSub
>      * OGM
>      * CC (closed caption)
>      * Microdvd
>      * SubRip
>      * SubViewer
>      * Sami
>      * VPlayer
>      * RT
>      * SSA
>      * MPsub
>      * AQTitle
>      * JACOsub
> 
> MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats (except
> the three first) into the following destination formats, with
> the given options: [...]

Yes, that was the answer *I* was looking for (which isn't in the
man mplayer(1) page of the one-month CVS version of mplayer I'm
using).  But please next time don't confuse your pronouns.

Thanks