[FFmpeg-user] reserve output stream for delayed subtitles ?

[sean darcy]

On 11/21/18 5:13 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> On 11/21/18 5:00 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> 2018-11-21 21:23 GMT+01:00, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com>:
>>> I have a 1949 french movie. I need the subtitles, my french isn't good
>>> enough any more !
>>>
>>> The problem is that the subtitles stream doesn't start until 85 seconds
>>> into the movie.
>>
>> Use -probesize and -analyzeduration with *really* big numbers.
>>
>> Carl Eugen
> 
> See my post just before this. ffprobe found the subtitle streams, but 
> ffmpeg didn't , even with 5 x numbers. I even tried 10G.
> 
> Is my test command wrong somehow:
> 
> ffmpeg -i VTS_01_1.VOB  -probesize 10G -analyzeduration 10G -f null 
> /dev/null
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 

I'm getting stupider by the hour. This works fine:


ffmpeg -probesize 100M -analyzeduration 100M -i VTS_01_1.VOB .........