[MPlayer-users] Re: Closed caption on svcd and dvd

[Nico Sabbi]

Michael Graham wrote:

>RC wrote:
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>>Michael Graham <oobermick at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>I have a couple of (x)svcd mpegs which claim to have closed caption
>>>(CC) on them and was wondering if it was possible to play the CC on
>>>mplayer. I have tried -subcc to no avail.
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>>They might call it "closed caption" but no doubt it's actually
>>"subtitles".  Using -sid  should work.  Try "mplayer -v vcd://2
>>-frames 0" and a list of available subtitles should be in there.
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>Thanks for the quick reply :)
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>I tried this and I didn't see anything that looked like subtitles (note
>that it's a vcd mpeg not a actual vcd). Also I am seeing lines at the top
>of the screen and I thought that this was caused by the CC[1]. 
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>Do you know of any programs for GNU/Linux which would be able to tell if
>the file contained CC or not?
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man mplayer about subcc. I never used it but it should work