[MPlayer-users] Strange Subtitle Problem (Star Wars DVD)

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:03:03AM +0200, alex wrote:
> Problem is, dumping the DVD and playing it works fine (finally), but 
> playing from DVD does not the trick, the subtitles from sids > 8 won't 
> show. Maybe because they're not listed in the IFO? didn't look into it 
> yet.

Hmm... try -vobsubid.

> Still another question? why do the subtitles look different when played 
> from stream then played directly from DVD? Outlines are thicker and 
> sometimes even colors are different? Is there something that's also read 
> from the IFO or some other VOB which is not dumped? Hard to find the
> docs 
> for VOB are...

Yes, there can be a palette in the ifo. That's why you should probably
use mencoder with -vobsubout to dump them, it will create an ifo etc.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger