[MPlayer-users] Make a clip with subtitles?

[Bill Crockett]

From: "Miriam English"
To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports" 
<mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2018 8:59 PM

> Sorry about the delay in responding. Been busy.

> Bill Crockett wrote:
>> I can post a brief example of the ffmpeg code to do this
>> (perhaps offlist if it potentially derails the thread).
> I would be interested to see that.  It won't derail.  I have seen many 
> references to FFmpeg on the MPlayer and MEncoder mailing list.  They seem 
> to prod you to use FFmpeg than MEncoder.

> The following presumes Linux. Other operating systems probably work 
> exactly the same, but I haven't tried them.

> Using ffmpeg to hard-code subtitles into a video requires libass 
> dependency to be compiled in 
> with --enable-libass...........................................

Thanks for all your extensive, detailed hard work on this.  I have read both 
posts, copied your instructions and will experiment.

To add subtitles to the container is interesting, and I did not know about 
that.  This is handy to know because of -vcodec copy and -acodec copy.  I 
love those options; no quality loss in re-encoding.

Thanks again,

Bill