#Mplayer subtitles movie

800 is the video bitrate (in kbps), use higher numbers for higher quality video and larger file size, and vice versa.

85 is the percentage of the image height that the subtitles should appear (from the top).

Mencoder -sub mymovie.srt -subpos 85 -vf expand=640:384 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=800:vhq -oac copy -o mymovie2.avi mymovie.avi

#Mplayer subtitles movie

We'd like to add a black border below the image to put the subtitles: for that we'll use the expand video filter.Īssuming your subtitles are in a file mymovie.srt, and your movie in mymovie.avi, now run: Running mencoder Let's say your video is 640 pixels wide and 272 pixels high ( mplayer will tell you the dimensions, run: (note that you don't have to specify the name of the subtitle file if it has the same name as the movie file, so in this example it wasn't necessary) You can see what the font looks like by running: Pick a font that sounds reasonable, for example /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf and copy it:Ĭp /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf If that command doesn't work, then maybe you've never run updatedb, so run it (as root), and try again. If there isn't, you can locate TrueType fonts on your system as follows: Subtitle font Make sure there is a font for subtitles in your ~/.mplayer directory, to check: You can use mencoder for this, which is part of the mplayer package ( get mplayer here).

Note that your subtitle file has to contain text, not images (here's a list of common subtitle file formats). srt file) with the subtitles, and you want to add them to the video stream. This is if you have a separate text file (for example, an.