[MPlayer-users] multiple subtitles support

[Ilja Kamps]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:23:57PM +0100, Pepe wrote:
> El Martes, 20 de Marzo de 2007 02:57, maximo at violadores.org escribi?:
> 
> > Hi!!
> >
> > Does that mean that I have to REENCODE my video files? is that the proper
> > way to do it?
> >
> > What I meant for multiple subtitles support was like this scenario:
> >
> > 1. You fetch your favorite video from somewhere
> >
> > 2. You fetch the original subtitle (same language as the movie) from yet
> > some other place
> >
> > 3. You fetch a translated subtitle from another place.
> >
> > The idea is for mplayer to play the movie, and display both subtitiles at
> > the same time, one at the bottom, the other on the up position.
> >
> > My question: is this possible without having to reencode the whole movie?
> >
> > It is not worth to do the reencode thing, because I watch the videos once
> > and then delete them.
> 
> No, I don't think you would have to reencode the videos.
> 
> You'll get two normal subtitles (srt, sub...) and then with some tool merge 
> them in a ssa subtitle, that would display both subtitles, one on top the 
> other on the botton, like the sample video does with Japanese subtitles. 
> But I don't know if such a tool exists or if it would easy to develop.
> 
A Perl one liner would do for most subtitle formats, SSA is a very
simple format.