[mythtv-users] Mplayer, Vobsub, and rar

[Nick Rout]

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.