[mythtv-users] MPlayer Occasional Subtitles

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 08:32, Joe . wrote:
> hi all,
> does anyone know how to make mplayer play the occasional subtitles
> necessary for films like the godfather or kill bill?
>
> if my dvd command is: mplayer -slang en dvd://
> then this would give constant english subtitles, but what i need, is
> subtitles only when the foreign langiage is spoken. this works on a
> normal dvd player (of course), but it also works fine in xine. is it
> possible to get mplayer to do the same?
>
> if the command is just: mplayer dvd://
> then i get no subtitles at all even if, for instance, someone in the
> godfather is speaking italian, of someone in kill bill is speaking
> japanese.
>
> anyone else have this working correctly?

That type of subtitle is usually rendered directly on the video; i.e. 
it's (typically) not a true selectable DVD subtitle.  I'm very 
surprised that you say mplayer does not show them... is it possible 
your screen settings are causing them to be cut off?

-JAC