[MPlayer-users] VobSub in dumped stream?

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Fabio Papa wrote:
> Loren Merritt wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Fabio Papa wrote:
>> 
>>> It's been some time since I last used this, but I think displaying VobSub 
>>> subtitles in dumped dvd streams has always worked, hasn't it?
>>> Now it is not. I can succesfully see them from the DVD itself, but if I 
>>> dump it with -dumpstream, I cannot see them anymore.
>>> It should be noted that I can still extract them with mencoder and 
>>> -vobsubout options. It's just mplayer that doesn't display them.
>> 
>> -dumpstream dumps the VOBs, but not the IFO file. The IFO contains metadata 
>> like subtitle languages, and without that you would have to specify the 
>> subtitles by -sid.
>> You can simply copy /dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_*.IFO (and rename appropriately), or 
>> use vobcopy instead of dumpstream.
>
> Hi again,
> as far as I know, the ifo tells which sid are which lang, and then maybe
> the colors. But, even if I specify the correct file with -ifo, I cannot
> see them. I also tried specifying the sid instead of slang, to no avail.
> Some other ideas?

I can't explain why it doesn't work.
However, the recommended procedure is not -dumpstream, but rather vobcopy
(or some other command that mirrors the DVD structure), followed by
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path/to/vobs/
I've never had problems that way.

--Loren Merritt