[MEncoder-users] subtitles have become hardcoded in video

[James Hastings-Trew]

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.
>
> In the command line for mencoder there's nothing strange, as you can see
> (well it's a quite aggressive compression, but still...):
>
> mencoder -vf harddup -nosound -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=300:bframes=4:subq=7:frameref=5:partitions=all:direct_pred=auto:trellis=1:b_pyramid:weight_b:8x8dct:me=umh:keyint=300:turbo:pass=1 vid1.mkv -o vid2.avi
>
> I used this setting counteless times on mkvs with multiple subtitles but this is the first time I get such a strange result.
>
> Any idea?
>
> terr
>   
Can I assume you are on Windows? If not, ignore the following 
suggestion. When mencoder is running, look in your system tray and see 
if VobSub is running - I've had the same problem where it just 
automatically activates when an .mkv file is accessed and starts 
displaying the subtitles over the video.