[MPlayer-users] Re: subtitles problem in mplayer

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:07:56 +0200, Alexander Roalter wrote:

> Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> Trying to watch "The Passion of the Christ" from the original dvd, and
>> mplayer does display the subtitles, but it skips maybe half of them. Has
>> anybody had this problem? Is there a fix? Would any of the developers
>> be willing to look into it? If there's any useful info I can provide, I'd
>> be happy to.
>>  
>> mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.0.26.pre7try2.4
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure it's an mplayer problem, because vlc and xine play the
>> movie and the subtitles fine. 
> 
> A few months ago we had the same problem with the star wars DVDs; there 
> was no proper solution, but using -vobsubid instead of -sid might help 
> here (it did not for me, on my system I have to dump the DVD on disc and 
> play the disc, where the corresponding SID works fairly well, although 
> color information for the subtitles are lost (they are stored in the IFOs)
> 
> hth,
> Alex


Have the developers been involved in this? Has it been reported as a bug?