[MPlayer-users] Video Output Question

[Salvador Ramirez]

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 16:40, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:23:07PM -0400, Salvador Ramirez wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hello,
> > 
> >    I hope you can help me with this.
> > 
> >    I have an mpeg file called al.mpg and its al.srt corresponding
> > subtitles file. When I open that file with mplayer it is displayer
> > correctly with the subtitles. However, if I select another video output,
> > such as the mpeg-pes, to write an mpeg video to an output file, then the
> > output mpg file is written but without the subtitles. I also tried to
> > output to a file with the -dumpstream option but again, the output file
> > is without the subtitles. The command line I use for this last try was:
> > 
> >     mplayer -sub al.srt al.mpg -dumpstream
> > 
> >    Any help will be very appreciated.
> 
> What you want is not possible. MPEG files do not/cannot contain
> independent subtitle streams. If you want to 'burn' the subtitles onto
> the picture, you can do that, but it will require a separate
> reencoding process that will significantly lower quality. Your best
> bet is to leave the subtitles in the .srt file where they belong.

Can you give me some light on how to do that reencoding process you
mention?

Thanks.

-- 
Salvador Ramirez <sram at profc.udec.cl>