[MPlayer-users] VobSub in dumped stream?

Fabio Papa fn024607 at yahoo.it
Fri Nov 5 08:04:39 CET 2004


Loren Merritt wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Fabio Papa wrote:
>
>> It's been some time since I last used this, but I think displaying 
>> VobSub subtitles in dumped dvd streams has always worked, hasn't it?
>> Now it is not. I can succesfully see them from the DVD itself, but if 
>> I dump it with -dumpstream, I cannot see them anymore.
>> It should be noted that I can still extract them with mencoder and 
>> -vobsubout options. It's just mplayer that doesn't display them.
>> Thanks for any info.
>
>
> -dumpstream dumps the VOBs, but not the IFO file. The IFO contains 
> metadata like subtitle languages, and without that you would have to 
> specify the subtitles by -sid.
> You can simply copy /dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_*.IFO (and rename 
> appropriately), or use vobcopy instead of dumpstream.
>
> --Loren Merritt

Hi again,
as far as I know, the ifo tells which sid are which lang, and then maybe
the colors. But, even if I specify the correct file with -ifo, I cannot
see them. I also tried specifying the sid instead of slang, to no avail.
Some other ideas?

Thanks




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