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

[Linards Ticmanis]

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Tom Eastman wrote:

> I've tried mplayer with '-sid 0',  '-sid 1',  '-sid 2' and  '-sid 3'.
>
> 0 and 1 are both english subtitles for the whole movie.  2 and 3 are both
> subtitles in a characterset I don't recognise (greek?).  There doesn't
seem
> to be a subtitle stream that corresponds to just the elvish, so how is it
> that other players do it by default?
>
> Is there something I'm missing?  Or is there something that mplayer is
> missing?

The subtitles for Elvish are not a separate stream. They are "forced"
subtitles in a given stream. Hardware DVD players will show these even
if "no subtitles" is selected. Somebody submitted a "forced subtitles
only" patch to the dev-eng list lately, it is already in CVS. Update
from CVS and check the manpage.

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Linards Ticmanis

 The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
preparation of the plain ground."




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