[MPlayer-users] mencoder vobsubout and two subtitles

[Loren Merritt]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Maximo Ramos wrote:
> Citando a  Loren Merritt (lorenm at u.washington.edu):
> > The easy way is:
> >
> > mencoder $filename -nosound -ovc frameno \
> >  -vobsubout test -vobsuboutindex 0 -sid 0
> >
> > (repeat for each subtitle stream you want)
> > This doesn't encode or even decode anything, so it takes negligible time.
> >
> > Note: Make sure to delete any leftover test.{sub,idx} before starting this
> > demux. It works because mencoder simply appends the vobsubs to whatever is
> > currently in those files, but that means it also keeps any junk from
> > previous runs.
> >
> > Then encode the video without any -vobsubout options.
> >
> > --Loren Merritt
>
> IT WORKS!!! :)
>
> How did you figure it out? just by reading the docs? :)

Actually, I discovered it by accident. I can't find anywhere in the docs
that describe this behavior.
I only wanted to demux one vobsub stream. After a few runs, I wondered
why I ended up with more than one copy of it in the sub/idx file.

--Loren Merritt