Re: [Encode2mpeg-users] svcd subtitles

[Giacomo C. <enc...@us...>]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:04:47AM -0500, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 20:29 -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:15:37PM -0500, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote:
> > > Hi 
> > >   i want to make and svcd or dvd with text subtitles
> > > i have 
> > > 
> > > 1.avi 
> > > 1.srt
> > > 
> > > i use this line
> > > 
> > > encode2mpeg -svcd 1.avi -txtsub 1.srt -txtsubopts en:0::30 -mpeg -encode
> > > 4:3:1 -o test -n n
> > > 
> > > then i do 
> > > 
> > >  mplayer cue://test.bin -slang en
> > > 
> > > and i can't see the subtitles... :(
> > > 
> > > what i haave to do..
> > > 
> > > Osmany
> > 
> > MPlayer does not support svcd subtitles.
> > You can display svcd subtitles with an hardware DVD player that
> > support them or with VLC (but VLC support may be somehow broken).
> > Otherwise you can create a DVD with text subtitles and MPlayer will
> > display them.
> > 
> > I may be able to add svcd subtitle support to MPlayer someday.
> > Who knows.
> > 
> > Giacomo
> 
> I do a test with dvd subtitles and works perfectly ...thanks :D 
> but the subtitles are pretty ugly :( ,subtitles are gray with a white
> border... :( can i change this....  

That's normal. You are playing the mpeg file and it does not contain information
about the subtitles color.
In order to see good subtitles, you have to play with mplayer the dvd image
not the mpeg file:

mplayer -dvd-device <dir> dvd://1 -sid 0

Giacomo