[MPlayer-users] Re: Playing subtitles with LoTR: The Two Towers DVD.

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Tom Eastman,

on Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:31:44 +1200 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:58, Tom Eastman wrote:
> > So now the question is:  Why doesn't -sid 4 or -sid 5 work in mplayer?
> >  Why
> > are they not found when the dvd is first checked when it runs?  And
> > how can we fix it?
> 
> I've made another observation.
> 
> I tried to rip -sid 4 and -sid 5 to vobsub format from the DVD.
> 
> The .idx file generated is included below.  Sadly I can't use the output
> to show the subtitles.  The interesting thing though is that the
> timestamps shown correspond perfectly to where the subtitles *should*
> be.  But the subtitles themselves don't seem to be viewable.
> 
> So mplayer seems to know that they are there in *some* capacity.  But is
> 
> unable to display them.
> 
> Can anyone give me any ideas on what next to try?

There was a patch on the dev list for these "forced subtitles" recently.
Dunno if has been applied or not. Anyway i think that's exactly what you
are looking for.
	Albeu
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