[MEncoder-users] subtitles have become hardcoded in video

[Jan Knutar]

On Thursday 19 June 2008, john terragon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is really strange (to me at least). I used mencoder to encode a
> video. The container of the original video is an mkv and has three
> subtitle tracks in it. After the encoding one of the subtitle tracks
> has magically become hardcoded into the (newly encoded) video track!
> The video and audio are just fine except for the hardcoded subtitles.

I noticed this recently too. As workaround I specified -sid 435 or 
something similar.

Anyone wanna do a binary search to see when this behaviour changed?