[MPlayer-users] Subtitles in an avi file

[Vladimir Niksic]

I downloaded some anime that has a very interesting way of putting 
subtitles in it. The audio is japanese, so I need the subtitles. I've 
read on the site that the subtitles are in the file and complex 
instructions how to view them in windows.

Mplayer plays the file without any problems, but I can't get the 
subtitles to show up. Then I had an idea I should open the avi with an 
editor and try to search for subtitles. I found the subtitles without a 
problem, and they look like this:

Title: <untitled>
Original Script: <DBZOA, timed by phoenixreborn >
ScriptType: v4.00
Collisions: Normal
PlayResY: 768
PlayDepth: 0
Timer: 100.0000

[V4 Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, 
TertiaryColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Border
Style: Regular 
Shit,Tahoma,50,16777215,16777215,16777215,-2147483640,-1,0,1,2,0,2,30,30,30,0,0

[Events]
Format: Marked, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, 
Effect, Text
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:29.66,0:00:37.03,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Son Goku has broken Piccolo's dream
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:37.37,0:00:40.84,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Five years have passed very quickly.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:41.53,0:00:44.99,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Life has gone on peacefully.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:49.47,0:00:53.78,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}But a new crisis is just around the
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:18.38,0:01:24.21,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}My name is Gohan! The Mini Goku.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:37.85,0:01:40.36,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Gohan!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:54.71,0:01:57.30,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Gohan!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:59.87,0:02:00.81,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Gohan!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:02.78,0:02:04.74,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Gohan!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:15.85,0:02:17.00,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}This tree is finally useful.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:27.63,0:02:28.75,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Gohan!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:29.51,0:02:33.90,Regular 
Shit,,0000,0000,0000,,{\fs36}Welcome home. Goku, where's Gohan?

This is a bit garbled up now, because of the newline breaking, but I've 
seen this kind of subtitles before, although in a seperate file. :-)

When I literally paste out the plain-text subtitles in a seperate file, 
and run Mplayer with -sub option the subtitles work great. They're 
synced, and very well timed.

Can I play these subtitles "on the fly" without being required to 
exctract 20 kb of plain text in a seperate file just to play it with 
subtitles? I can't seem to find anything in the manual about this.