<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>3.2. Subtitles and OSD</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="MPlayer - The Movie Player"><link rel="up" href="usage.html" title="Chapter 3. Usage"><link rel="prev" href="commandline.html" title="3.1. Command line"><link rel="next" href="control.html" title="3.3. Control"><link rel="preface" href="howtoread.html" title="How to read this documentation"><link rel="chapter" href="intro.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"><link rel="chapter" href="install.html" title="Chapter 2. Installation"><link rel="chapter" href="usage.html" title="Chapter 3. Usage"><link rel="chapter" href="video.html" title="Chapter 4. Video output devices"><link rel="chapter" href="ports.html" title="Chapter 5. Ports"><link rel="chapter" href="mencoder.html" title="Chapter 6. Basic usage of MEncoder"><link rel="chapter" href="encoding-guide.html" title="Chapter 7. Encoding with MEncoder"><link rel="chapter" href="faq.html" title="Chapter 8. Frequently Asked Questions"><link rel="appendix" href="bugreports.html" title="Appendix A. How to report bugs"><link rel="appendix" href="skin.html" title="Appendix B. MPlayer skin format"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">3.2. Subtitles and OSD</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="commandline.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Usage</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="control.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" title="3.2. Subtitles and OSD"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="subosd"></a>3.2. Subtitles and OSD</h2></div></div></div><p>
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> can display subtitles along with movie files.
Currently the following formats are supported:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>VOBsub</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>OGM</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>CC (closed caption)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>MicroDVD</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>SubRip</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>SubViewer</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Sami</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>VPlayer</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>RT</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>SSA</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>PJS (Phoenix Japanimation Society)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>MPsub</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>AQTitle</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
<a class="ulink" href="http://unicorn.us.com/jacosub/" target="_top">JACOsub</a>
</p></li></ul></div><p>
</p><p>
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> can dump the previously listed subtitle
formats (<span class="bold"><strong>except the three first</strong></span>) into the
following destination formats, with the given options:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>MPsub: <tt class="option">-dumpmpsub</tt></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>SubRip: <tt class="option">-dumpsrtsub</tt></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>MicroDVD: <tt class="option">-dumpmicrodvdsub</tt></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>JACOsub: <tt class="option">-dumpjacosub</tt></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Sami: <tt class="option">-dumpsami</tt></p></li></ul></div><p>
</p><p>
<span class="application">MEncoder</span> can dump DVD subtitles into
<a class="link" href="menc-feat-extractsub.html" title="6.9. Extracting DVD subtitles to VOBsub file">VOBsub</a> format.
</p><p>
The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:
</p><p title="VOBsub subtitles"><b>VOBsub subtitles. </b>
VOBsub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) <tt class="filename">.SUB</tt>
file, and optional <tt class="filename">.IDX</tt> and/or <tt class="filename">.IFO</tt>
files. If you have files like
<tt class="filename"><em class="replaceable"><code>sample.sub</code></em></tt>,
<tt class="filename"><em class="replaceable"><code>sample.ifo</code></em></tt> (optional),
<tt class="filename"><em class="replaceable"><code>sample.idx</code></em></tt> - you have to pass
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> the <tt class="option">-vobsub sample
[-vobsubid <em class="replaceable"><code>id</code></em>]</tt> options
(full path optional). The <tt class="option">-vobsubid</tt> option is like
<tt class="option">-sid</tt> for DVDs, you can choose between subtitle tracks
(languages) with it. In case that <tt class="option">-vobsubid</tt> is omitted,
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> will try to use the languages given by the
<tt class="option">-slang</tt> option and fall back to the
<code class="systemitem">langidx</code> in the <tt class="filename">.IDX</tt> file to set
the subtitle language. If it fails, there will be no subtitles.
</p><p title="Other subtitles"><b>Other subtitles. </b>
The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing,
placement and text information. Usage: If you have a file like
<tt class="filename"><em class="replaceable"><code>sample.txt</code></em></tt>,
you have to pass the option <tt class="option">-sub
<em class="replaceable"><code>sample.txt</code></em></tt> (full path optional).
</p><div class="variablelist" title="Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:"><p class="title"><b>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</b></p><dl><dt><span class="term"><tt class="option">-subdelay <em class="replaceable"><code>sec</code></em></tt></span></dt><dd><p>
Delays subtitles by <tt class="option"><em class="replaceable"><code>sec</code></em></tt> seconds.
Can be negative. The value is added to movie's time position counter.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><tt class="option">-subfps <em class="replaceable"><code>RATE</code></em></tt></span></dt><dd><p>
Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number).
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><tt class="option">-subpos <em class="replaceable"><code>0-100</code></em></tt></span></dt><dd><p>
Specify the position of subtitles.
</p></dd></dl></div><p>
If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when
using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the framerate of the movie and
the subtitle file are different. Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle
format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, but there is no fps
information in it, and therefore the <tt class="option">-subfps</tt> option should
be used with this format. If you like to solve this problem permanently,
you have to manually convert the subtitle file framerate.
<span class="application">MPlayer</span> can do this
conversion for you:
</p><pre class="screen">
mplayer -dumpmicrodvdsub -fps <em class="replaceable"><code>subtitles_fps</code></em> -subfps <em class="replaceable"><code>avi_fps</code></em> \
-sub <em class="replaceable"><code>subtitle_filename</code></em> <em class="replaceable"><code>dummy.avi</code></em>
</pre><p>
</p><p>
About DVD subtitles, read the <a class="link" href="dvd.html" title="3.5. DVD playback">DVD</a> section.
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