[MPlayer-users] subtitles in the avi

[antoine]

Erik Kjær Pedersen wrote:

>when I rip using e.g. -sid 1 I get an avi where the subtitles are imbedded in 
>the video. That is nice for some purposes. I can of course also rip the 
>subtitles separately. If I have ripped the subtitles separately, is there 
>then a way to produce an avi of the first kind? I have tried various things 
>using -copy and -dumpstream, but none of it worked. It would be quite 
>convenient since I then only need to store the subtitles separately, but 
>could produce something that fits on a cd with subtitles later
>  
>
Either I completely missed what you are trying to do, or you missed 
somethin' huge. You create the avi, you rip the subtitles, then you play 
the avi with subtitles with
$ mplayer -vobsub nameofsubfile.sub -vobsubid ? -slang ? nameofavi.avi
If you don't bother to convert the dvd sub format (you will need to run 
special tools to extract the text, ie, ocr, and then something to create 
a text sub format) to a text format (usually 3-5 meg vs 30-60K). I don't 
usually rip subtitles with mplayer and get dvd::rip to automatically 
make an rar archive of the necessary files. You use the same syntax anyway.
If you have it already in text format then
$ mplayer -sub nameofsub.txt nameofavi.avi
and it is as easy as that. No disgusting burning of subtitles to the movie!
Cheers
Antoine

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