[BRLTTY] Subtitles, mplayer, and BRLTTY

[Samuel Thibault]

Adrian van Bloois, le mar. 08 janv. 2019 09:39:02 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:28:25AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Rob, le lun. 07 janv. 2019 21:03:29 -0600, a ecrit:
> > > You can extract subtitles using ffmpeg; they show up as a stream. What you get is a .srt file that has time codes and the actual subs themselves. Reading this, however, is a bit awkward because it doesn't update in real time since you're viewing it in an editor. Plus you have to skip over all  the time and frame codes which can get tedious.
> > > Is there a way to get something like mplayer to display the subs in a real text line at the bottom of the screen that brltty can follow, while the movie plays?
> When I start mplayer here on my CentOS box it does exactly the thing you
> ask for.

How do you run it? Under X? In the console? With no particular option?

Samuel