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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:45:43AM +0000, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> 
> > ?? 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".
> Is there a way to rip subtitles as a single file, so not to need .IFO
> file ?

The best way is to throw away the hideously ugly 2bpp bitmapped subs
and get text subs. You can either use OCR to convert them to text (see
subrip in the TOOLS directory, but it's a bit difficult to use, or
various windoze progs for the job), download them from an internet
site with text subs (e.g. dvd.box.sk; search the archives for other
good sites), or use the timestamps from the ripped vobsub and retype
the actual text of the subs yourself.

Rich