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Cinner
12th January 2007, 00:43
Is there software for Mac OS X that lets you display (external) srt subtitles while playing a DVD? I don't think VLC can do this, but it would be nice if there were a way to do this.
nm
12th January 2007, 13:12
MPlayer can do that:
mplayer dvd://<track_number> -sub subtitles.srt
Cinner
12th January 2007, 16:05
MPlayer can do that:
mplayer dvd://<track_number> -sub subtitles.srt

Should that work when I open Mplayer and go to File>Open Location?

When I put in dvd://1 -sub omen.srt for exemple, nothing happens (it doesn't accept that code), but without the -sub command it at least does open the DVD.
Cinner
14th January 2007, 13:38
Never mind the lack of good multimedia software for OSX. I'll just install Windows on my Mac. Damn it.
nm
14th January 2007, 21:55
Should that work when I open Mplayer and go to File>Open Location?No, those were command-line parameters that that are used in a terminal (the Terminal app in OS X, I think) when running mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu). I don't know which MPlayer GUI you are using, so I can't help with that.

Never mind the lack of good multimedia software for OSX. I'll just install Windows on my Mac. Damn it.Well, MPlayer is pretty much the most usable and versatile video player I know, and it is cross-platform, so no need to install Windows on my Linux-running systems. Of course, YMMV ;)
Cinner
14th January 2007, 22:50
No, those were command-line parameters that that are used in a terminal (the Terminal app in OS X, I think) when running mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu). I don't know which MPlayer GUI you are using, so I can't help with that.

Well, MPlayer is pretty much the most usable and versatile video player I know, and it is cross-platform, so no need to install Windows on my Linux-running systems. Of course, YMMV ;)

Thanks for the help, but I've come to realise I need CoreAVC and Dolby Headphone (software), and these exist only for Windows. There are no solid OSX alternatives that I know of. I'm sure MPlayer is a decent player, but it crashed many times already and it's playing my high definition files very poorly (maybe I have a bad MPlayer build?), so I won't bother with it anymore.