[MPlayer-users] Subtitles in an avi file

[The Wanderer]

Rich Felker wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:33:13PM +0200, Vladimir Niksic wrote:

>>> 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...

Possibly so, but at least it's a dirty hack which is *meant* to support
embedded subtitles - and, furthermore, does it in an at least vaguely
sane way. (I think you'll have to agree that a proper subtitle stream is
less insane than a single contiguous block of subtitles in a completely
unrelated format, located at almost the very end of the file.)

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