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

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/3/30, Fredrik Eriksson <feffese at yahoo.se>:
> 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.

The program is in /mplayer_source/TOOLS/
not sure for the name.

AFAIR the main problem with subtitles in avi is that there is no
standard way to do it.
This means that all kind of subtitles could be incorporated.
Well, giving that now we have general stream hadnling of subtitles it
may be possible that in a few months ogm and mkv will use general
subtitle handling and avi may follow them (just hope so ;)