[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD subtitles (yes, I've RTFM)

[Sven Hartge]

Peter Schuller <peter.schuller at infidyne.com> wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

>> Erm. DVD-Subtitles are _images_, not text, so they have to be
>> visible, even of you don't install any of the fonts mplayer needs for
>> its OSD, etc.

> Well installing the OSD fonts did the trick for me :)

> Although I *have* seen divx subtitles for Traffic work once without
> the OSD stuff. They just wern't synced correctly and generally wasn't
> too good; but I did get mplayer to show them.

> But for the dvds, the font installation did the trick.

Erm, but this seems to be a bug in mplayer, which causes the DVD
subtitle renderer to not display the subtitles, even if they were
displayable, since there are only images stored in the mpeg-stream.

S°