[Linux] Journal.

$ mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path/to/dvd_files

I have a subtitles file which is not in sync with the video. Luckily mplayer has an option -subdelay which shifts the subtitles by the number of seconds specified. To find out the delay, read the time of the first entry in the subtitles file, then minus the time that entry is spoken in [...]

Here’s a nice HOWTO on the MJPEG-tools and the creation of MPEG 1/2 videos. VCD and SVCD, and the transcoding of existing mpeg streams.

For some time now when I select full screen from the menu in MPlayer it expands to full screen but the video size stays the same :/ After toying with it for a while I found out you have to specify both the fs and the zoom option, i.e.

$ gmplayer -fs -zoom movie.avi

Alternatively you [...]