[MPlayer-users] Closed caption on svcd and dvd

[Giacomo Comes]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:23:01AM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:01:17 +0000
> Michael Graham <oobermick at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

unfortunately MPlayer doesn't support subtitles for SVCD.

If you have a mpeg video with SVCD subtitles and play it with

mplayer file.mpg -v

you will see a message saying:

Unknown 0x1BD substream: 0x70

That's the subtitle.

I suspect it should be not too much difficult to add SVCD subtitle
support to mplayer. Any volunteer?

> 
> 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.

If you add -frames 0 you will not see anything. MPlayer needs
to find the subtitles in the stream before reporting it.
You should add at least -frames 500 or even more.

Giacomo