[MPlayer-users] Re: MPlayer doesn't dump subtitles

[amadeo]

Well, I've found the reason for subtitle dumping not working. I have ASS
subtitle rendering per default enabled in the config file. Without ASS the
subtitles are dumped as expected.

On a side note, I think that the command line example in the man page for
dumping the subtitle without watching the movie could be changed from

mplayer /dev/zero -rawvideo pal:fps=xx -demuxer rawvideo -vc null -vo null
-noframedrop -benchmark -sub source.sub -dumpmpsub

to

mplayer /dev/null -rawvideo pal:fps=xx -demuxer rawvideo -vc null -vo null -sub
source.sub -dumpmpsub

With /dev/zero as the input mplayer goes on and on running until you stop it,
which is unnecessary because the subtitle has already been dumped. Using
/dev/null instead mplayer stops playing right away because the input file is
empty. Also, -noframedrop -benchmark doesn't seem to be needed in this case.