[MPlayer-users] Closed caption on svcd and dvd

[Giacomo Comes]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:57:03PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Giacomo Comes wrote:
> 
> >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?
> > 
> >
> 
> I just tested two samples with CC and they work as expected when using 
> -subcc
> -osdlevel 2

This means that SVCD can have CC too. But that's not the only kind of
subtitle they can contain.

Giacomo