[MPlayer-users] Vobsub format .IFO files no longer needed

[Ed Fisher]

You shouldn't need to use -vobsub as long as the base filename is the
same as the avi.. that is, as long as both the .rar and the .avi are
named "tlr-postx" mplayer will autoload it.  Try not specifying -vobsub
and see if that works.

For rar'd subs, all you need to do is exactly what you have done -- rar
up the idx and subtitle into one file.

My recommendation if omitting -vobsub still doesn't work is to try
unraring the subtitles and recreating the .rar file with rar 2.8 or any
2.x... it's possible the postx people used rar 3, and mplayer is choking
on it.

-gleam

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:39:03AM +0800, bjobson glay.org spake thus:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I've been having trouble getting it to work. I've never tried using rar'ed subs before. I've always passed -vobsub and -vobsubid #. I couldn't spot anything in the documentation or the faqs about using rar'ed subs except for a note in menecoder docs about how to create them. Can someone give me a kick in the right direction?
> 
> If it helps, here's an example of the files I have. 
> 
> tlr-postx.avi     - The video.
> 
> tlr-postx.rar     - Rar containing the following two files:
> 
> tlr-postx.idx 
> tlr-postx.sub
> 
> 
> I've tried using -vobsub and -vobsubid, the error I get is always:
> 
> Playing tlr-postx.avi
> Can't open IFO fileDetected AVI file format!
> 

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