[MPlayer-users] Displaying OGM text streams

[Arwed von Merkatz]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:27:24PM +0200, philippe.combes at ens-lyon.fr wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> After having search the various mplayer mailing lists (through google), 
> I cannot find any clue to display the OGM text streams.
> No even mention that it does not work, except a bug fix dated from 2002 which
> seems not included in my version.
> My version is the one from the latest Debian unstable package.
> 
> To generate my OGM files, I use the latest ogmtools (Debian unstable), just as
> explained in the man page of ogmmerge :
> ogmmerge -o out.ogm -A nosound.avi -c LANGUAGE="English" sound.ogg -c
> LANGUAGE="English" subtitles.srt.
> 
> And I cannot get the subtitles displayed with my mplayer.
> If I change subtitles.srt to out.srt, then the automatic loading of the
> subtitles work fine. But how to make mplayer look for these subtitles in out.ogm
> directly ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Philippe
 
You need to give mplayer the -sid <num> option so it knows what subtitle
stream to display. To get the stream number either use ogminfo and look
for the serial number of the text stream or use mplayer -v and look for
a message like 'OGG stream 2 is text'.

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