[MPlayer-users] subtitle problems

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 17 March 2005 at 21:44, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:49:24PM -0500, MJH wrote:
[...]
> > Or in the case where you always want the subtitles - I don't know enough 
> > Japanese to watch anime without them, so why keep seperate files?
> 
> Because someday you might, or you might want to loan your discs to a
> friend who does, or you might find out the subtitles are horribly
> mistranslated and want to use alternate subtitle file. As long as you
> keep the subs separate everything is flexible and you have many
> options open. As soon as you burn them in you're stuck with them.

MJH: you don't have to keep a separate file, just use a more capable
container, like Matroska or NUT, that supports subtitle streams.

R.

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