mplayer and subtitles

[onesandzeros]

Hello all,

I've read a few postings here concerning mplayer and subtitles, and a few of them, as well as a few webpages I've seen, mention fonts as a cause of trouble. However, some subtitles work. That is, subtitles in srt format that are with ogm encoded video are fine. However, when I try to play an avi with subtitles, I run into trouble...

In one directory, I have 4 files: an avi, an idx, a rar, and a sub. Now, the sub is just the result of unrar-ing the rar. So, while both mplayer and xine play the ogm/srt just fine, neither will do anything with this other group of files. I've tried specifying the sub, idx, and even the rar as the subtitle file on the command line with mplayer, as well as trying to load each with both (g)mplayer and xine via the respective gui menus. I have and have not changed the files names (changed them and then changed them back). The idx files do not specify the name of the sub.

Both apps (and the entire system, actually) were compiled with nls, cjk, and unicode. If anyone has any suggestions, please...

Thanks,
Chris

[Cocobo-1]

If the subfile is large. Lager than just the text for the subfile (0-10K) then the subfile is proboly a vobsub file. They are a little special. They contain the font and the text in different languages. Try to start mplayer with
mplayer -vobsub subfile -vobsubid 0
or mplayer -vobsub subfile -sid 0
do not use -vobsub subfile.sub mplayer will detect the file without extention
-sid 0 means language 0. Test 0-31 to find your language.
For more info turn to your mplayer manpage.
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[onesandzeros]

Cocobo,

Thanks, the second one