[MPlayer-users] Multiplexed subtitles

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:11:16AM +0200, George Anastassakis wrote:
> On 20/3/2011 1:56 μμ, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 02:11:09AM +0200, George Anastassakis wrote:
> >> My question is, can I display those subtitles while playing
> >> test.subs.mpg with mplayer? I have tried
> >>
> >> mplayer -sid 0 test.subs.mpg
> >>
> >> but even though the video plays correctly, no subtitles are
> >> displayed.
> >
> > -sid 0 is unlikely to be correct. Look either at -identify output or
> > try enabling it at runtime.
> 
> I managed to display the subtitles by hitting 'j' a couple of times
> while playback - I don't know if that was needed because of a bad
> stream id or something else though.

Most likely, -sid doesn't start with 0 for MPEG.