[MPlayer-users] subtitle problems

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:16:05AM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:15:16AM -0500, MJH wrote:
> >  Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Yes, I've seen those. I've seen a couple DVD where such an odd timestamp
> > > > would come in the middle and show for example 00:00:00:001, breaking all
> > > > subs after it. Assuming mencoder read it correctly from the DVD, it
> > > > simply means that the DVD is badly mastered. Remove or correct that first
> > > > timestamp to a sane value and all will be fine.
> > 
> > Removing the errant index entry did indeed remove the problem. There must be a 
> > way to do that in code so you don't have to do it by hand though. 
> > 
> > In the mean time, is there a way to get the subtitles back into the ripped 
> > video? (I hunted through the docs but couldn't find anything). Or do you have 
> > to keep video, sub and inx files around?
> 
> You can render permanently the subs in the video stream adding 
> the option -sid to mencoder (you need to reencode the video, -oac copy wont work).
> This works if your source is a DVD. If you have an external vobsub file
> you need to patch mencoder (there is a patch flying around).
> For text subtitles, I think it's not possible.

It's also possible for text. However with both, it will seriously
reduce the quality of your encode. Rendering subs into the movie is a
very stupid idea, except for special cases like vcd that don't support
anything else. (But using vcd as a primary storage format or anything
but a temporary format for transporting video to legacy players is a
stupid idea in itself.)

Rich