External Subtitles Not Working

[twistymcgee]

I have a file with the following name: JCVD.avi. Two files came with it: JCVD.idx and JCVD.sub. On my PS3 I can see the file show up with [MEncoder] {External Subtitles}. However, when I play the file, I don't get subtitles and my audio is out of sync. Any help with this would be appreciated since I don't really know a lot about how the subtitles work with the various codecs.

Thanks

[shagrath]

unfortunately idx/sub is not supported on osx

[twistymcgee]

So what about Windows? I have a Windows virtual machine that has access to the files from the Mac. I can go that way if it will accomplish what I'm trying to do.

[shagrath]

idx/sub is only supported on Windows, with the AviSynth/Mencoder transcoding engine

[tigermann]

Will it be supported in the future?

[pmos69]

Hard.
idx/sub are graphical, not text based. (Actually, an mpeg stream, I think).
Only with some kind of video overlaying it's possible to support it. I think that's what AviSynth does.

Even tools that convert from idx/sub to srt have to use things like assisted OCR to do their job.

[tigermann]

Shouldn't it then be possible to decode the stream, add the text layer and then encode it?

Using menucoder ofc..

[pmos69]

hummm, actually, mplayer suports idx/subs in OS X (-vobsub) so piping mplayer's output to mencoder should make this possible...

- EDIT -
Yup, should be possible. Take a look at this example:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mpl ... 76699.html

Haven't tested it.
Anyway, using mkfifo instead of temp files could be even better.