[MPlayer-users] help with mkv

[The Wanderer]

Rickey wrote:

> The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> Rickey wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm having trouble gettting the Subs to work on .mkv...can
>>> someone Help me...???
>> 
>> Not if you don't specify what *kind* of trouble you've had, what
>> you've tried, what has (and hasn't) happened, what error messages
>> have or haven't come up, et cetera...
>> 
>> Generically speaking, however, if everything is compiled together
>> correctly and you have a file with soft subtitles, you need to
>> first do
>> 
>> mplayer -v <filename>
>> 
>> and identify the number of the subtitle stream you want, then do
>> 
>> mplayer -sid <number> <filename> <other-options>
> 
> I tried the -sid and the aid or something like that (I forgot the
> Audio one) but it's comes with > and just sits there if I type the
> name in I get a error saying can't play (file name) (file name)

Please specify the exact command line you're using, and exactly what
gets printed in response.

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