[MPlayer-users] why do subtitles disappear when using -vo png ? [dup?]

[Oliver Seitz]

> (Originally, I was trying to 'burn' subtitles into the video stream,
> using
>
>   mencoder -sub subtitle.srt -o with_subtitles.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc
>   film.avi
>
> but I couldn't get that to work, i.e. my subtitles kept disappearing, so
> I tried to do something really simple and get mplayer to dump out video
> frame-by-frame, but I couldn't get that to work either, hence this
> mail.)

Just a guess... I've seen things work oddly when outputting to single
frames. Have you tried -vo yuv4mpeg ? It seemed once to me to work more
like a streaming output than writing to lots of seperate files.

Good luck!

Kiste