[MPlayer-users] Hide hardcoded subtitles

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 13.10.2013, at 10:13, Krzysztof Duchnowski <amidk75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13.10.2013 02:25, Arturo Rinaldi wrote:
>> Hi folks, is there a way to hide embedded/hardcoded subtitles from a 
>> movie ? I have to insert my own subtitles in a movie for a lecture. I 
>> tried with passing these arguments to the executable :
> 
>> /$ mplayer -nosub -noautosub -nofontconfig movie.avi/
> 
>> but I didn't get any result. Any help would be appreciated.....
> 
> Dictionary
> 
> *embedded subtitle* - subtitle file is added to container and is present
> as additional data track inside, like video is track#01, audio is
> track#02 and subtitles are track#03 (check with MediaInfo)
> 
> *hard-coded subtitles* - subtitle file was added as filter during video
> encoding process and it's content is now part of every image of video
> file, hence it is not a separate instance and can't be distinguished
> from video data

You can still make sure an additional set of subtitles will be readable by making the background of the new one non-transparent, in case that is good enough.