[MPlayer-users] Disabling subtitles when encoding

[Igor Katson]

Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quartidi 24 nivôse, an CCXVII, Igor Katson a écrit :
>   
>> I am trying to reencode an mkv with embedded subtitles using mencoder. 
>> But there is a problem: the subtitles are burned into the video when 
>> using default options (so I can't disable it), and I haven't found the 
>> correct option to turn that feature of neither in the man page of 
>> mencoder, nor in Google.
>>
>> How can I disable that? I have used a workaround of setting subtitle 
>> delay to a number, much bigger then the length of the video, but I don't 
>> like that.
>>     
>
> That is a neat trick. I can suggest one slightly cleaner: -sid 42, after
> ensuring that there is no subtitle track #42.
>
> I do not think there is an option to really disable subtitles, I wish there
> were. Some time ago, subtitles from matroska files were not enabled by
> default. The option was not added when this behaviour was changed.
>
> Regards,
>   
Thank you. So this is a bug, isn't it? Should I repost that as a bugreport?
Regards,
Igor Katson.