[MPlayer-users] playing wav with subtitles but no video.

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-2] £ukasz "frogu" Proszek wrote:

> Hi,
> How can I make MPlayer play only a wave with subtitles?
> I meen something like that
>
> mplayer -audiofile file.wav -sub sub.srt
>
> and in the output a black box with subtitles apearing and disapearaing
>
> ======mplayer======
> |00:01:12 >       |
> |    sub line     |
> ===================
>
> something like to make mplayer think that the video stream is only a
> black rectangle.
>
>
> frogu.

A combination of tv://0 and -vf crop,expand might do what you want.