[MPlayer-users] little bug report: iso vs dvd: missing features (subtitles)

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 07 August 2008 17:18:24 p64 at free.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I enjoy mplayer, and geexbox, its version "in a box".
> However, i realized that mplayer handles differently DVD media
> and ISO images of such media.
>
> Here's the issue:
> - When opening the ISO image of a DVD, no subtitle gets ever
> detected: "mplayer -v *.iso" does not report anything related to
> subtitles. - If i mount that image into a virtual drive, then
> "mplayer -v dvd://" reports subtitles and i can watch them.


you have to use -dvd-device file.iso dvd://

>
> It's a shame, since given the huge capacity of hard drives,
> it's very handly to bring ISO images of your DVDs there
> and watch them with geexbox/mplayer !
>

read the documentation