[MPlayer-users] Subtitles in an avi file

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:33:13PM +0200, Vladimir Niksic wrote:
> >This one again...
> >
> >The only known solution to this problem, aside from using a player which
> >is both able and willing to support something so broken, is (as you've
> >discovered) to extract the subtitles to a separate file and tell MPlayer
> >to use that as the subtitle file. There is a program, written for me by
> >an MPlayer developer some time ago, which can do that automatically; the
> >source is attached.
> 
> Just a few minutes after I mailed the mailing list, I remebmered to 
> search gmane for the same problem. I found a mail or two, maybe you were 
> involved in the discussions, and also found the small source code. This 
> is one binary I'll keep.
> 
> >I wonder if we shouldn't make this available somewhere else, so that I
> >don't have to keep posting it every time someone asks about the issue?
> 
> That's a great idea. A lot of people don't like the idea of having a 
> seperate file for subtitles, but refuse to use ogm, or something similar 
> that actually supports this feature, and not this dirty hack.

OGM is an even dirtier hack...

Rich