[MPlayer-users] How to pause mencoder

[Jörg]

>> > * added sub.txt support (real-time subtitles for use with mencoder)
>> real time subtitles ?

>Generated on the fly by the program running mencoder, e.g.  if using
>live TV or security camera then insert time-stamp and other inputs.
>I used to use ffmpeg with its -vhook drawtext.so which had "%c" for
>inserting clock time on video.  But mencoder's subtitles are far better.

For deaf people it could also be nice to encode the videotext (teletext) 
subtitles into the live TV recording. I don't know whether there is actually 
anything around which could make them record something including subtitles on 
the market.

Merry Christmas
Jörg