[MPlayer-users] Help with Mplayer and SRT subtitles

[John Brown]

Hello,

>On 3/25/07, info at danielerossi.net <info at danielerossi.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> >  I've run into one problem; the subtitles don't show up,
>> > either in mencoder or mplayer.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>why  not post a -v output and post a sample?
>>On my win xp .mkv files show up with subtitles.
>>You should probably do the following:
>>
>>Run the file and read the console:
>>it give you a reference about the "tags" it uses for the tracks
>>give the option corresponding to the subtitle you need like:
>>-sid 0
>>
>>daniele
>>
>>___________

Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>
>How do you record the output of -v in Windows?  Obviously in Linux I
>could easily just pipe it to a file.
>

Just the same as in Linux:
mplayer -v > filename.txt 2>&1

>I did find an error though:
>
>C:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font
>description, ignoring.
>Cannot load bitmap font C:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
>
>The font file is there though.  Its name is uppercase, but then I
>remembered Windows isn't case sensitive anyways.  What's up with that?
>

You can copy arial.ttf (or any TrueType font file) as subfont.ttf to the 
mplayer folder. I mean the one that corresponds to $HOME/.mplayer on Linux. 
I believe that on Windows it is path\to\mplayer.exe\mplayer.

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