[mythtv-users] Mplayer, Vobsub, and rar

[MacNean Tyrrell]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:15 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <dardack at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok so I've recently decided to rip most of my DVD's to xvid with an avi
> > container with dvd::rip (basically since i've had kids and they've um
> > scratched a couple discs) and me and my wife like to watch tv/movies with
> > subtitles (no we're not hard of hearing per say but starting years ago I
> > would watch tv while she slept so got used to them, and now she's always
> > nervous about waking up the kids) anyways, if they are forced subtitles
> > (like in Star Wars) I just have them rendered directly onto the movie.
> > However, I also extract the subtitles to the vobsub format.  Now the
> mplayer
> > command from a terminal to play this sub is:  mplayer -vobsub Movie
> > -vobsubid 0 Movie.avi (aslong as Movie is the name of the .rar and/or sub
> > file).  Now what I do is compact the idx/inf/sub file into a rar.  What I
> > haven't been able to figure out is the mythtv command line to run this.
>  I
> > have search the mailing list to no avail.  I know it's staring me in the
> > face and i'm just doing a little something wrong.  I know the %s is the
> > filename, but I haven't figured out how to take the %s and subtract .avi
> > from it.
>
> look at the basename command.

so I can run: mplayer -vobsub basename %s .avi -vobsubid 0 %s?

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-- 
Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell
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