[MPlayer-users] Re: Dumping CC subtitles
ephemeron at softhome.net
ephemeron at softhome.net
Sun Jun 1 00:36:27 CEST 2003
On Sat, 31 May 2003 13:23:25 -0500,
Jonathan Rogers wrote:
>
> ephemeron at softhome.net wrote:
> > > Excellent question. This would be great for transcoding as
> > > well, since one could get text subtitles without OCRing the
> > > DVD subtitles.
> >
> > You could always get one off the Internet ;-).
> Get one what?
The subtitles. Look at the smiley.
> > Yes, an option to extract them (via either mplayer or mencoder)
> > would be a nice feature, inasmuch as mplayer proper can already
> > display it. Or is already implemented and all I have to do is
> > more RTFM?
>
> Are you trying to wittily imply that mplayer or mencoder can
> dump DVD closed captions? If that capability exists, it's not
> in the manpage or manual. There is the -dumpsub option, which
> "Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams." The -dump*sub
> options convert external subtitles specified with -sub (not
> -subcc) into other formats.
>
> Please don't RTFM me unless you actually understand what I'm
> talking about. You clearly don't.
You've had a bad day, right? Please look at what I really wrote
above. Even in my grammatically flawed English, I wasn't telling
*YOU* to RTFM. *I* was referring to myself ("all I have to do").
> I quote from the manual:
[...]
> MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently
> the following formats are supported:
>
> * VobSub
> * OGM
> * CC (closed caption)
> * Microdvd
> * SubRip
> * SubViewer
> * Sami
> * VPlayer
> * RT
> * SSA
> * MPsub
> * AQTitle
> * JACOsub
>
> MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats (except
> the three first) into the following destination formats, with
> the given options: [...]
Yes, that was the answer *I* was looking for (which isn't in the
man mplayer(1) page of the one-month CVS version of mplayer I'm
using). But please next time don't confuse your pronouns.
Thanks
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