[MPlayer-dev-eng] ripping subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:05:28PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Friday 14 June 2002 14:13, Arpi wrote:
> > > You could even do very crazy things like encoding the speech of the movie
> > > in different languages at low-bitrate/different codec and having
> > > music/effects at higher bitrate and at playback downmix the wanted
> > > dialogs to music/sfx channel (this of course is only practical, if source
> > > media supplies seperate streams for dialogs/sfx etc, this approach is a
> > > bit familiar to mpeg4's idea
> >
> > isit possible to separate speech if you have speech+fx and fx-only
> > channels? (but no speech-only one)
> IMHO no clean way, you can mask of speech frequencies, similar to karaoke 
> stuff and of course could put this into sperae stream, but it's quite 
> unreliable...

Hmm? If you have both of these and neither is offset or mixed/filtered
too destructively, the difference between the two should be the
speech-only channel.

Rich