Can't figure out .sub and .idx with mencoder

vlanhopper · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

I know how to handle .srt but I can't get .sub and .idx to work. It encodes with no errors but I can't see the subs in encode?

mencoder -o output.avi -forceidx -ovc xvid -xvidencopts chroma_opt:vhq=4:bvhq=1:fixed_quant=4 -oac copy -sub yella.2007.dvdrip.xvid.fragment.sub -subpos 10 input.avi

I know it is something simple there I am missing, I googled for two hours straight.

Wait I forgot you have to encode to .mpg to hardcode subs don't you? Someone help me out.

absoluteflatness · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:12 am Post subject:

From the online MPlayer documentation at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/ :

vlanhopper · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

Mplayer won't pick up the subs, or else I would have already done that and >file redirection for mplayer stdout. I know they are not corrupt.

StarDragon · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 390 Location: tEXas

vlanhopper,

I've also messed around with that and could never get it to work. The -sub function will allow viewing the subtitles from a file, but you have to run mplayer.

MostAwesomeDude · Guru Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 373

In my experience, the best thing to do is use a Matroska container. Emerge media-video/mkvtoolnix with the wxwindows USE flag to get mmg, which is a very helpful GUI for making Matroskas. All you have to do is add your subtitle file to the list of files to be merged, and it will "just work." However, if you do this, don't forget to add "-vf harddup" to your mencoder line, or you'll lose sync in your video.
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absoluteflatness · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

I assumed the poster was going for a portable player or something similar. I can't really think of any other good reason to want to hardcode subs. Portable player would almost essentially rule out .mkv. Of course, I could be completely off on my assumption.