[MPlayer-users] problems with vobsub generated by mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:21:37AM -0300, Martin Pavon wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> Hi Folks !!!!
> 
> I'm having some problems to generate vobsub files with mencoder. I've done the
> following
> 
> i) I've ripped the dvd (interview with the vampire, ntsc R4) in two large vob
> files with the command line
> 
> mplayer -dvd1 -chapter 1-14 -dumpstream -dumpfile 01-14.vob    and
> mplayer -dvd1 -chapter 15-34 -dumpstream -dumpfile 15-34.vob 
> 
> And I encode both satisfactory (with -ofps 23.976)
> 
> To create the vobsub files I use the command line
> 
> cat 15-34.vob |mencoder -ovc frameno -nosound -ofps 23.976 \
> -ifo path_to_ifos -vobsubout test/xxxx -vobsuboutindex 0 \
> -vobsuboutid es -sid 2 -

Never mix -ovc frameno with -nosound. If you don't want to waste time
decoding and encoding, use -oac copy -ovc copy -o /dev/null instead.
What you're doing could be causing timing/sync weirdness...

Rich