[MPlayer-users] rendering subtitles to video

[Ulrich Schweitzer]

On Friday 22 October 2004 19:59, Roger D. Vargas wrote:
> Is there some way to render subtitles directly to video using mencoder?

If you are encoding from a vob it is easy. Just use pass -sid n to mcoder 
(n being the subtitle stream you want).

If you have an avi and a subtitle file things are more difficult. I don't 
think mencoder can do it but there is a trick: You run
mplayer file.avi -sub your_subtitlefile -vo yuv4mpeg
which will create a file stream.yuv that holds the uncompressed video with 
the subtitles. You can then reencode this file with whatever codec you 
like. Beware: stream.yuv will be huge (dozens of GB for a normal movie) 
so you might want to use a fifo. Also you will have to manually extract 
and remux the audio track.

Ulrich
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