[MPlayer-users] Re: using srt files

[Guillaume POIRIER]

On 5/3/06, Deepan Chakravarthy <codeshepherd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ,
>   I have trouble with  displaying subtitles. I played my movie as follows
>
> $mplayer -sub subtitiles.srt mymovie.dat
>
> but I could not see the subtitiles.

It's possible that you haven't set up any ttf/freetype font. Please
check the log printed by MPlayer, and read the docs...

Guillaume
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