[MPlayer-users] Re: Invisible subtitles on SOME dvd's

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:00:58AM +0200, Sumant S.R. Oemrawsingh wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:59:50PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > Anyway, as suggested as well, I'll try one of the other players later today,
> > > and see if that works. The point of this was, actually to allow me to make a
> > > copy of my dvd's (with subtitles in the black bars) using mencoder. IMHO
> > > transcode is too slow and doesn't look as good.
> > 
> > This will waste lots of bits and make the quality bad, for two
> > reasons. As always, black borders hurt quality, but also the the
> > hideous pixellated DVD subtitles don't encode well... Using -spuaa
> > will help of course, but you might not like the blurred look. A much
> > better approach is to keep subtitles in a separate file (vobsub, or
> > better yet download nice pretty text subtitle files from dvd.box.sk or
> > a similar site) and just apply them when you watch the movie. Or, if
> > you want to use OGM or Matroska container, you can include the text
> > subtitles in the same file as the movie.
> > 
> > Some other benefits... If you have text subtitles, you don't have to
> > worry about broken ifo palettes whatsoever. Or, if you extract
> > vobsubs, you can edit the palette manually and fix it so they'll
> > display right!
> 
> Yeah, you're probably right, thanks. Nevertheless, MPlayer *should* display
> them properly and, although I will download the subtitles or convert them to
> srt or something myself, it's a matter of honour for MPlayer, I think. If
> Ogle can do it, and MPlayer can't... :)

Yes, I agree it should work. I was just saying that rendering the subs
onto a black border for encoding is a bad idea!

Rich