mencoder: hardcode external vobsb subtitle ?

[Selur]

Is there a way to use mencoder to hardcode vobsub subtitles? (.srt works fine)

Cu Selur

[microchip8]

-sub file.idx ?

though I found it often has problems with even reading Vobsubs from files

[Selur]

tried it with -sub file.idx and -sub file(without the .idx) and it does not work,..
at least not when using a dvd source and external vobsub subtitles,..

[multimediaman]

Use matroska container and -sid.

[Selur]

@multimediaman: I want to hardcode the subtitles and using matroska doesn't help when I aim for raw/mp4 or whatever other output.

[microchip8]

Selur, care to bring this issue to the mplayer mailing list? I think mplayer-dev will be better to report this. This issue has come up many times in the past, especially with Vobsubs

[nm]

You could also pipe the video from MPlayer. Otherwise you'll need to modify MEncoder.

[multimediaman]

@multimediaman: I want to hardcode the subtitles and using matroska doesn't help when I aim for raw/mp4 or whatever other output.

Yes, it sounds crazy but the only way I can get hardsubs is to use softsubs in matroska and then encode that matroska file into something else. I didn't mean that you should use matroska as output :).

[fit]

try this mplayer: aew.snk-neofighters.com/misc/mplayer.html

[Selur]

@fit: how should I test it with you mencoder compile and vobsub subtitles any specific commands ?
@multimediaman: I see, but having a large (since one would copy the video or use a lossless compression method to not encode the video twice with a lossless compression) intermediate file doesn't sound good, but it's a way. :)
@froggy1: there have been posts about it in the mailing list and nothing happend, so I don't think it would help if I post there. :)
@nm: know a way to do this under linux & windows ? (under linux named pipes should do the job, but is there a way to do it on windows systems?)