[MPlayer-users] Movie night and no subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:25:02PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Trying to play a dvd that was copied to a hard dirve.  One of the vob files
> cause the target machine to hang, so used dvdbackup and rsync to get the dvd
> image to the target machine.
> 
> OSD works fine but *no* subtitles.  xine shows the subtitles on one machine,
> but xine crashes on the target machine.  Mplayer plays fine but just no
> subtitles.  Spent a few hours searching docs and online without luck.
> Hitting "v" says "Subtitles: enabled" on screen but no subtitles.
> 
> Where do I look now?

The fine manual. Hint: you need to specify the subtitle track you want
to play with -sid 0 (or whatever number it is) or -slang en (or
whatever lang you want).

Rich