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

[Giacomo Comes]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:36:18PM -0500, B Wooster wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:53:58 +0100, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> wrote:
> > B Wooster wrote:
> > 
> > >On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:38:37 +0100, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>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
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > usually dvd subs start from 0x20. Did you try -alang en?
> 
> The mplayer command above works  - it displays subtitles, on the screen.
> So, OSD is all setup, and subtitles in mplayer work.
> 
> mencoder is where I've problems:
> mencoder dvd://1 -chapter 27 -sid 0 -o title27.avi  -vf expand
> -1:-1:-1:-1:1 -oac  copy  -ovc copy
> That leaves out subtitles ....

in order to render the subtitles with mencoder you don't need the 
-vf expand stuff, instead you need to reencode the video.
Remove -oac copy and add -oac lavc.

For what you are doing probably you could try encode2mpeg.

Giacomo