[MPlayer-users] help with mkv

[Rickey]

The Wanderer wrote:

> 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.

I tried the -sid and the aid or something like that (I forgot the Audio 
one) but it's comes with > and just sits there if I type the name in I 
get a error saying can't play (file name) (file name)