[PLUG] VLC experts?

[Bill Barry]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:40 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am trying to watch an old Korean movie. I do not speak Korean. The
> movie is not available anywhere, and is probably out of copyright. I
> found and downloaded a copy, but it is in two CD files of 700 MB each.
> The person who created the files did not include a file for subtitles.
>
> Separately I found two versions of subtitles for the movie. In VLC
> they work great with the first CD file, but when I try to continue with
> the second CD file the subtitles start over from the beginning. VLC
> extended controls offer an offset, but only up to 60 seconds.
>
> I've poked around for the past half hour, but haven't hit on a
> solution. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get VLC to play
> both CD files in sequence automatically using the same subtitles file?

Will something like this work?
vlc  --sub-file sfile  firstfile secondfile

Bill