[MPlayer-users] How to create vob/mpeg files with burnt in subtitles?

[B Wooster]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:38:37 +0100, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> wrote:
> B Wooster wrote:
> 
> >I am not sure if mplayer can do this - but if anyone knows how to
> >create an output vob/mpg file from a DVD chapter, that includes the
> >subtitles burned in the video, please let me know.
> if you can see them with mplayer
> add the same -sid or -slang entry to mencoder command line.

I couldn't get the subtitles - here are the commands I used:
(play to screen)
mplayer dvd://1 -chapter 27 -sid 0

(write to disk - the output file is just video/audio, no subtitles)
mencoder dvd://1 -chapter 27 -sid 0 -o title27.avi  -vf expand
-1:-1:-1:-1:1 -oac  copy  -ovc copy

Is there some other option I need to give mencoder to have it render
the subtitles?
Reading the man page, it seems to suggest that -vf expand should be
used, which I did
but maybe I did not use it correctly?