[MPlayer-users] subtitle missing

[Towncat]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:

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> Towncat wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
> wrote:
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> >> Towncat <towncat.towncat <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> I'm trying to play a dvd with mplayer under Debian with subtitles, but
> I
> >> get
> >>> no subtitles.
> >>>
> >>> Here's my command line:
> >>>
> >>> mplayer -alang en -slang hu dvd://1
> does it help pressing 'j' twice?
>
> - --
> Cheers,
> Alex
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That helps :-) So now I can view the subtitles at last, thanks.

BUT even then, why do I need to do it like that? Shouldn't the subtitles
start right away?

I also tried to dump subtitles with the -dumpsrtsub option, and no file was
created. (Maybe I'm not using the option correctly?)

Thanks,
tc.