[MPlayer-users] dumpstream ignores subtitles ?

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Saturday 06 October 2007 11:36:17 Abylai Ospan ha scritto:
> Hello !
>
> I'm trying to split subtitles with video stream. I want to see
> video film with subtitles on player doesn't support subtitles.
>
> I'm running command:
> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile Revolution_OS.mpg -sub
> Revolution_OS.srt -subfont-autoscale 1  Revolution_OS.avi
>
> but output file Revolution_OS.mpg doesn't contains subtitles on
> video frames.
> Is it possible to make this split ?
> Thanks !
>
> Abylai

no, you are asking for miracles (mpg subs are pictures, while
.srt files contain text that you can obtain from those pictures using 
an OCR software and a lot of patience to fix errors)