On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:15:46AM +0100, Matthias Lang wrote: > In other drivers, such as vo_png.c and vo_jpeg.c, the > function is empty. So it looks like they were never > intended to show subtitles. Slightly unexpected design > decision, but it looks deliberate. The OSD for these is supposed to be rendered by -vf expand=osd=1 I never remember is it is supposed to be added automatically or not. > > (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 > > Retrospectively, I realise it's not clear from my first post that the > above mencoder command line actually produces the intended > results. For the record: it doesn't work on older versions of > mencoder, such as 1.0rc2-4.2.4, but it does work on, e.g., MEncoder > SVN-r29857-4.3.4. Then possibly it's mencoder that auto-inserts that filter but not MPlayer.
