[MPlayer-users] Re: Trouble with playing AVI files with embedded subtitle

[Fredrik Eriksson]

n d wrote:
> On 3/31/06, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:09:25 +0800
>> "n d" <fairytale0020032003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I recently download a AVI file with subtitle embedded. When I play
>>> this file in Windows, there are subtitles. But when I try with
>>> mplayer, there's no subtitle. Is there way to show the subtitles?
>> man mplayer
>> /-sid
>>
> 
> I tried -sid but still could not. The file I have is not a OGM or
> Matrovska file. It looks completely like a normal AVI file. Here's the
> output
I think the issue has been up on the 
mailing list before... If I remember 
correctly; subtitles in avi files is so 
extremely ugly that the devs has no 
intention to add support for it. Someone 
had a script to extract the subtitles 
from the avi file, but I don't remember 
who or what it looked like. Search the 
archives.

Fredrik Eriksson