[MPlayer-users] Play with subtitles?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,
On 12/14/05, Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz> wrote:
>
> 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?

mplayer movie.avi -vobsub movie

or just
mplayer movie.avi
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