[MPlayer-users] rendering subtitles to video

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:43:35PM +0200, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote:
> 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

wtf?!?! this will ruin a/v sync and waste huge amounts of disk space.
you can render these subs with mencoder just like any other subs... no
need for hacks.

rich