[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer's faq solution for encoding ssa subs doesn't work

[compn]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:09:41 +0200, Robert Ramiega wrote:
>  Hi!
> I've just tried method described in
>http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_FAQ#Mencoder_questions for
>encoding ssa subtitles and it fails miserably.
> http://pastebin.com/f7d27c628 contains output of mencoder part (but it also
>fails with simple mplayer stream.yuv).
>
> As sugested by Uoti on #mplayer adding -demuxer y4m or -cache 1000 solves
>the problem.
> The real question: is this bug on mplayer/mencoder part or is modyfing FAQ
>entry proper solution ?

added -demuxer y4m to faq

you might like to try the mencoder-ass patch instead... 
http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smplayer/mplayer-builds/patches/ass_support_for_mencoder_with_embeddedfonts.patch?view=log

-compn