[MPlayer-users] DVDNAV problem: subtitles

[Phil Rhodes]

When mplayer lists "subtitles", is it actually listing what would be 
referred to in DVD parlance as subpictures?

Bear in mind that DVD subpictures may be used for things other than 
subtitles. Menu overlays are subpictures, strictly speaking. The "follow the 
white rabbit" thing on the famous Matrix DVD springs to mind. Some of these 
tracks may not be marked with a language because they do not contain 
linguistic data and this is most likely to occur in exactly the kind of 
elaborately-designed commercial discs associated with the popular movies 
people are citing as problematic.

I'm not sure what to suggest as a strategy for avoiding this but there 
presumably is one as DVD players do it.

P