[MPlayer-users] audio and subtitle selection?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:30:43PM -0600, Michael wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have a bunch of vob files I've ripped from DVD. They contain all the
> original audio tracks and subtitles (which work in Xine) but I can't
> figure out how to select the desired audio and subtitles with mplayer
> (which I want to use because it works better than Xine). Is there a
> command-line option and/or a keystroke that will let me select these
> options?

RTFM -aid and -sid.

> Also I've been using dvd::rip to rip these DVD's and it breaks the movies
> down into ~1Gb vob files. Again playing these in Xine creates no problem
> but in mplayer there is a noticable break between files. Is there a way to
> smooth out that bump so that the files play as a single movie?

How are you playing them? With -dvd-device /path/to/vobs there should
be no intteruption, but perhaps dvd::rip didn't rip them in a nice
format where you can do this. If you have to play them as separate
files, put -fixed-vo on the beginning of the command line and it may
help.

BTW some ways of ripping are better than others. I don't know what
dvd::rip does but you might look into other options.

Rich