[MPlayer-users] Encoding video for Droid with subtitles

[Rolf Ernst]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have some .mkv files that are subtitled that I would like to put on my
> droid for watching while traveling.
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> I used this command line
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> mencoder $1 -sid 0 -ovc x264 -x264encopts
> nocabac:level_idc=30:bframes=0:threads
> =auto:global_header:no8x8dct -oac faac -faacopts
> br=96:raw=yes:mpeg=4:object=2 -
> channels 2 -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -vf
> pullup,softskip,pp=fd,scale=480:-10
> ,hqdn3d,harddup -endpos 60 -o $1.mp4
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> When you play back (mplayer) with -sid 0 - do the subtitles show? (I
presume you want to hardsub). If they don't show up on playback in the first
place then it won't encode them either. You can use the 'j' key to cycle
through the available subtitle streams to see whether you got the correct
one (which may or may not be 0).