[MPlayer-users] how to extract audio and subtitles w/o video

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:10:27PM +0100, Stefan Lange wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >Hi. I was trying to figure out how it was possible to extract audio 
> >tracks in pcm format and subtitles in vobsub format from a dvd. I don't 
> >want video.
> >
> >As far as I can see I can't use -vobsub with mplayer but only with 
> >mencoder. But with mencoder I have to select a video codec - I don't 
> >need video. And it's not clear to me how can I extract audio (I need 
> >something similar to -aofile in mplayer) with mencoder...
> >
> 
> RTFM, it's all in the manpage:
> 
> subs from dvd -> vobsub-file:
> 
>        -dumpsub (MPLAYER only) (BETA CODE)
>               Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams.  See 
> -dump*sub and -vobsubout*  options
>               too.

-dumpsub is useless and is just for testing; -vobsubout is what he
wants. Also, if you don't want to do any audio/video encoding, just
use -oac copy -ovc copy -o /dev/null and you'll just get the subtitles
out.

Rich