[MPlayer-users] Encoding video for Droid with subtitles

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 02/04/2010 12:41 PM, Rolf Ernst wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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).

They are at sid 0 and when I play output video back in mplayer the
subtitles are on the video.

I think I figured out the problem. The audio is playing at the right
speed, the video is just a slide show, and so the subtitles don't show
up on time. So can you recommend anyway to improve the file?

Kevin

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