[MPlayer-users] help with mkv

[Rickey]

The Wanderer wrote:

> Rickey wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>
>>
>> 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)
>
>
> Please specify the exact command line you're using, and exactly what
> gets printed in response.

Ok this is what I type and what I get

gmplayer -aid 0 sid 1 [a4e]Eden's_Bowy_01[divx5.2.0].mkv

 > (I hit enter)
 >[a4e]Eden's_Bowy_01[divx5.2.0].mkv

unable to open
[a4e]Eden's_Bowy_01[divx5.2.0].mkv

[a4e]Eden's_Bowy_01[divx5.2.0].mkv

even with mplayer it's like that I think mplayer and gmplayer dislike me 
or something I tried the -v thing and it's the Same way