[MPlayer-users] Multiplexed subtitles

[George Anastassakis]

On 20/3/2011 1:56 μμ, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>  On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 02:11:09AM +0200, George Anastassakis wrote:
> > My question is, can I display those subtitles while playing
> > test.subs.mpg with mplayer? I have tried
> >
> > mplayer -sid 0 test.subs.mpg
> >
> > but even though the video plays correctly, no subtitles are
> > displayed.
>
>  -sid 0 is unlikely to be correct. Look either at -identify output or
>  try enabling it at runtime.

I managed to display the subtitles by hitting 'j' a couple of times 
while playback - I don't know if that was needed because of a bad stream 
id or something else though.

Thanks for your reply.