Mplayer | Rob Groen

How To add subtitles to a movie and save is to a new file

Add subtiltes to a new outputfile.
incl. resizeable subtitles, percentage from picture hight. So it can be shown on the Philips media player

mencoder -fontconfig -subfont-text-scale 3 -ovc lavc INPUT-FILE.avi -sub "SuBFILE.srt" -oac copy -o OUTPUT-FILE.avi

Playing a movie with "hot" added subtitles.

Use this command:

mplayer -fontconfig -subfont-text-scale 3 INPUT-FILE.avi -sub "SuBFILE.srt"