[MPlayer-users] help with mkv

[The Wanderer]

Rickey wrote:

> I'm having trouble gettting the Subs to work on .mkv...can someone
> Help me...???

Not if you don't specify what *kind* of trouble you've had, what you've
tried, what has (and hasn't) happened, what error messages have or
haven't come up, et cetera...

Generically speaking, however, if everything is compiled together
correctly and you have a file with soft subtitles, you need to first do

mplayer -v <filename>

and identify the number of the subtitle stream you want, then do

mplayer -sid <number> <filename> <other-options>

This is documented, but not in necessarily immediately obvious places.
It's easily found if you search through the man page for "subtitle", but
not everyone is accustomed to doing things like that, and there are
schools of thought which say that they shouldn't have to.

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