[MPlayer-users] count resets when playing dvd, external subs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:25:33PM -0500, Robert Henney wrote:
> I'm attempting to play the Buena Vista R1 of "Castle in the Sky"
> and using an extental subtitle file (jacosub format).  The issue
> I'm encountering is that mplayer's counter keeps resetting
> at certain points throughout the movie.  Since the counter appears
> to be used to decide when subtitles should appear, this has
> the effect of continually restarting the subtitles.
> 
> In the output below, the resets are occuring at the times when
> the "END OF CELL" lines are getting printed.
> 
> Is there a way around this problem?

Yes, rip and reencode the DVD and it will use continuous timestamps.
Sorry, this is just the stupid way dvds are mastered... :(

Rich