[MPlayer-users] dvd video

[Aaron Peterson]

> > is there a way I can use mplayer or mencoder to re-encode the video so
> > it is smaller, but still dvd-video compatable 
> 
> Yes, there has been plenty of discussion on this dvd-authoring on this
> list in the past.  Check the archives and I'm sure you'll find plenty of
> examples of exactly how others do this.
> 
> > In addition, if I add -sid 0 to the above commandline, will mplayer
> > dump the chosen subtitle into the file.m2v video stream?
> 
> Quite doubtful.  MPlayer is smart, but not that smart.  Mplayer doesn't
> really modify the stream in any way when dumping to file.  
> 
> I'd say you'll probably have to dump the subtitles to a file seperately,
> and then include them when you master the DVD. Never done that myself,
> so I can't tell you with exact steps to do that are.

I've tried several combinations of options to produce mpeg 2 files with
mencoder, but they always cause errors with mplex and dvdauthor so I
must be doing something wrong.

The -sid 0 option works when given to mencoder for encoding with lavc
(subtitles get muxed into the video mpeg4 video stream, albeit not so
pretty, probably because of scaling) so I thought it was possible that
mplayer might do the same.  spmux comes with dvdauthor and is supposed
to add subtitles to the dvd.  I haven't used that yet, but I'll probably
look into that.  A couple movies I've played with recently (Kill Bill
vol1 and Last Samurai) are mostly in English, but have significant
chunks in japanese with english subtitles.  That's why I ask.  

I guess I'll try searching the archives for "author" and "mpeg2" or
something.
-- 
Aaron Peterson <aaron at alpete.com>
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