[MPlayer-users] Play with subtitles?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:10:35 +0100
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> 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.

ahh ok I see.

> 
> > 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.
> 

OK so if I unpack the movie.rar file to movie.sub then run 

mplayer movie.avi -sub movie.sub

it should work?

Thanks for replying :)




-- 
Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>