[MPlayer-users] mencoder/vobsubout => garbage in subtitles file

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:02:41PM +0200, ROED,HAAVARD (HP-Norway,ex1) wrote:
> Following the suggested method in the MPlayer docs, I try and extract a
> subtitle during the 1st stage (audio rip) with
> 
> mencoder -dvd 14 -vobsubout subtitles -sid 2 -aid 129 -oac copy -ovc frameno
> -o frameno.avi
> 
> but the subtitles.sub file contains only garbage (encrypted? font problem?).

?? DVD subtitles are _IMAGES_ and _NOT_ text!
Try to specify -vobsub for mplayer. Also you should have IFO file as well
(from the DVD) because eg palette for DVD subtitle is stored only in the IFO
and not inside the "dvd sub stream".

- Gábor (larta'H)