[MPlayer-users] Play with subtitles?

Tue Dec 13 22:10:35 CET 2005

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 21:52, Nick Rout wrote:
> Sorry if this question is very basic, believe me I have looked through
> the man page and played with options, and I cannot seem to get this
> right.
> 
> I have a movie I downloaded which consists of three files, all in the
> same directory.:
> 
> movie.avi
> movie.idx
> movie.rar
> 
> The .idx file is text and the forst line is:
> 
> # VobSub index file, v7 (do not modify this line!)
> 
> the rar file contains one compressed file called movie.sub, which itself
> is in some binary format. I assume it contains the subtitles, but I am
> not very familiar with subtitle technology sorry.

It contains images with the subtitles.

> The avi plays fine with mplayer movie.avi, but i cannot make the
> subtitles work. Can someone give me the magic incantation to make these
> work?

MPlayer doesn't support RAR 3+ archives (there's no free decompression
code). Repack to RAR 2 compatible format or keep unpacked.

R.

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