[MPlayer-users] How to generate soft subtitles with mencoder ?

[Mark Blain]

a a <you2bepie at yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1327972284.11936.YahooMailClassic at web112908.mail.gq1.yahoo.com: 

> Thanks.  I gave avidemux a try but it crashed when it tired to
> load the source mkv files I had; the other program is a windows
> program and I am using ubuntu. 

For Avidemux, answer "yes" if you're asked whether you'd like to "use 
another mode which is safe" to help prevent crashes with mkvs.

Per http://winff.org/html_new/  
"WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 , ME, NT, XP, VISTA, and Debian, 
Ubuntu, Redhat based GNU/Linux distributions."

Having said that, mkvtoolnix is still my tool of choice for extracting 
subtitles from an mkv container.