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

[Reimar =?UTF8?Q?D=F6ffinger?=]

Hi,
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:18:33PM +0000, Imi theos wrote:
> More crazy info.
> 
> Like Alex said, some sids do not play.
> 
> e.g "mplayer dvd://1 -sid 4" doesn't play
> "mencoder dvd://1 -sid 4 -oac copy -o 4.avi -ovc lavc ..." then mplayer 
> 4.avi the subs are visible
> "dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -t 1 -o ." and then "mplayer VTS.VOB -sid 4" the 
> subs are visible again.
> 
> Only when playing the dvd, the subs don't work.

The trick is to use -vobsubid instead of sid, as I just found out (first time I ran over such a weird DVD).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger