[MPlayer-users] vob subtitles

[Otvos Ferenc CADMUS]

Emil Petersky wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> did anybody tried to display DVD subtitles from *.vob files on a hdd?
> 
> If I play it directly from DVD, it's OK (subtitles are white on black),
> but if I try to play it from hdd, subtitles are displayed as black only,
> what's unreadable.

For displaying subtitles mplayer needs the *.ifo file(s) too. So you
have to copy them
onto your hard disk (*.vob doesn't enough).

If it is so, you can try:

mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device <path to the video_ts dir> <other options>