[MPlayer-users] subtitle problems

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 18 March 2005 at 01:39, Thomas Martinsen wrote:
> 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.
> >
> I was thinking of like, If a windows user wanted to play it in windows 
> media player or something..

WMP supports VOBSUB subtitles AFAIR. I found it very suprising the first
time I saw it. Still, it means keeping two additional files (.sub and .idx).

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

The subs in VOB files? Yes.

R.

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