[PLUG] VLC experts?

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sat Aug 28 05:51:02 UTC 2010


On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:47:23 -0700
Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:

>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

Thanks for the suggestion. It plays the second CD file right after the
first one ends, but the subtitles start again at the beginning of the
first file.

I think I need to concatenate the .avi files into one .avi file.



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