[MPlayer-users] DVD and external subtitles file

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:11:14 Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> I'm trying to play with MPlayer a DVD (Little Shop of Horrors,
> 1986, Italian edition) with an external subtitle file in SRT
> format.
> At a given point in the movie, somewhere in the middle of it, the
> subs are displayed from the beginning again.
> IIRC, this is due to the timestamps of the DVD restarting from 0 at
> a given point.
> There's a solution for this or does someone know a workaround?

a possible workaround is remuxing with -ovc copy -oac copy to mpeg or 
to avi, but the ideal solution would consist in using the stream
timer (if available, as  in the case of dvds) as master clock for the
subs