[MPlayer-users] subtitle problems

[Thomas Martinsen]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

>On Friday, 18 March 2005 at 00:52, Thomas Martinsen wrote:
>  
>
>>Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>    
>>
>[...]
>  
>
>>>MJH: you don't have to keep a separate file, just use a more capable
>>>container, like Matroska or NUT, that supports subtitle streams.
>>>      
>>>
>>What about portability, I mean, Sure you bring MPlayer to the system.. 
>>But what if you'd want to play it on a system without MPlayer? I believe 
>>it would be best to store it in a common format, and rather store the 
>>subtitle file in a sperate file.
>>    
>>
>
>Matroska and NUT are both open formats and quite portable. Matroska is
>supported by some media players for the "other" OS. And NUT will be, as
>soon as its spec stabilizes.
>
>  
>
>>And btw, muxing subtitles into MPEG2 video isnt that bad either, I've 
>>tried it a few times when i burned a dvd. It can be done with spumix in 
>>dvdauthor. And you dont have to reencode either, and you can choose not 
>>to view the subtitles.
>>    
>>
>
>SPU streams are OK, too, even though they are graphics instead of text.
>The point is not to encode subs into the video stream.
>
>R.
>
>  
>
I was thinking of like, If a windows user wanted to play it in windows 
media player or something..

Its a seperate stream really, isnt it? So its not really into the video 
stream?