> (Originally, I was trying to 'burn' subtitles into the video stream, > using > > mencoder -sub subtitle.srt -o with_subtitles.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc > film.avi > > but I couldn't get that to work, i.e. my subtitles kept disappearing, so > I tried to do something really simple and get mplayer to dump out video > frame-by-frame, but I couldn't get that to work either, hence this > mail.) Just a guess... I've seen things work oddly when outputting to single frames. Have you tried -vo yuv4mpeg ? It seemed once to me to work more like a streaming output than writing to lots of seperate files. Good luck! Kiste