[MPlayer-users] MEncoder Vobsub Rendering

[Thomas Christensen]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:31:10PM +0200, ?ukasz frogu Proszek wrote:
> W li?cie z ?ro, 07-04-2004, godz. 18:14, The Wanderer pisze: 
> > Thomas Christensen wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi mplayer-users
> > > 
> > > I am encoding avi files with vobsub subtitles to SVCD, and I was
> > > wondering if it is possible to render the vobsub subtitle onto the
> > > SVCD?
> > 
> > Assuming you mean "burn the subtitles into the video", it should be just
> > as possible as doing the same with any other kind of subtitle MPlayer
> > can show on a file while playing it.
> > 
> > Speaking of which, *is* this possible? Long-past mailing list discussion
> > seems to indicate it, and there is a vague hint in the man page that it
> > is, but nothing I have seen explains *how* to do it. My best guess is to
> > simply specify the subtitle file when encoding, but I've never heard
> > either a confirmation that this works or a report that it doesn't (and I
> > don't have a video/subtitle-file pair to test for myself right now).
> 
> > It if *is* possible, perhaps a description (however minimal) of how
> > should be added to the documentation. If it isn't, then that should
> > definitely be mentioned somewhere, given how many times this sort of
> > question has been asked (and how little attention it's gotten from
> > anyone other than me).
> 
> did this today morning with this commandline
> 
> mencoder -ovc lavc -oac copy -sub wynik3.srt -utf8 -font
> ~/.fonts/ALAMAKOT.TTF -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-blur 3
> -subfont-text-scale 4  -subpos 90 lord_of_the_net.avi

Yes, but the trouble comes when you try to do the same with vobsub
subtitles, since the -sub option doesn't support vobsub, and the
-vobsub option isn't supported in mencoder.

Maybe I should try converting the vobsub subtitles to srt format
somehow.

-- 
Thomas Christensen                         Registered Linux User #351414
                                                  http://counter.li.org/
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