[MPlayer-users] Closed caption on svcd and dvd

[Nico Sabbi]

Giacomo Comes wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:23:01AM -0800, RC wrote:
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>>On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:01:17 +0000
>>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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>unfortunately MPlayer doesn't support subtitles for SVCD.
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>If you have a mpeg video with SVCD subtitles and play it with
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>mplayer file.mpg -v
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>you will see a message saying:
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>Unknown 0x1BD substream: 0x70
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>That's the subtitle.
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>I suspect it should be not too much difficult to add SVCD subtitle
>support to mplayer. Any volunteer?
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what format is it? If I  remember correctly it should be ascii text, right?
Can someone upload a sample to ftp://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming?

>>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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>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.
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>Giacomo
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