[MPlayer-users] DVD and external subtitle file

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:45:36AM +0100, Robert R. Wal wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On 02.11.22 Michal Wisniewski pressed the following keys:
> 
> > > > Is it possible to play a DVD movie with an external 
> > > subtitles file (eg. from
> > > > divx version of the movie)?
> > > 
> > > of course!
> > > 
> > > mplayer -dvd n ..... -sub <path_to_your_sub>, or something like this!
> > > 
> > But... n in -dvd n is a "chapter" and time in subtitle file is counted from
> > beginning of what? chapter, beginning of disc?
> > Have you tried the above command? I have an oportunity to buy a DVD "Matrix"
> > (bought in USA) and I have polish subtitle file (from divx). Can I use the
> > file with the DVD?
> 
> In this case the chapter is your least important problem.
> 
> There is a problem with movie length for PAL. Theatrical movies[1] are
> 24fps, NTSC is almost 30fps and PAL is 25fps. Theatrical movies telecined
> to NTSC retain their original length/speed. When they are telecined to
> PAL they are simply played faster[1]. So in the end 44 minutes
> NTSC/theatrical movie becomes ~42mins PAL movie.

That's why mplayer has the -subfps option. Convert subtitles to a
frame-based format rather than a time-based one, then use -subfps to
adjust and convert back.

Rich