[MPlayer-dev-eng] text subtitle position (sub_pos)

[Jiri Svoboda]

On Pá, 2002-09-13 at 15:34, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:21:51AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > However, when you move the subs up by decreasing sub_pos, it
> > > will look something like this:
> > > 
> > >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> > >  |               |          |               |
> > >  |     two       |       -> | one line subs |
> > >  |  line subs    | <-base?  |               |
> > >  |               |          |               |
> > >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> > >  
> > > As you can see, the subtitles are now 'top aligned' instead of
> > 
> > yes, as it was the goal.
> > 
> > when you have a widescreen movie, with black bars at top and bottom,
> > you want to align the subs right bellow the subtitles.
> > 
> > > bottom aligned. I want them to look like this:
> > > 
> > >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> > >  |               |          |               |
> > >  |     two       |          |               |
> > >  |  line subs    | <-base-> | one line subs |
> > >  |               |          |               |
> > >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> > 
> > and why is it good?
> 
> I think the point is that sometimes you don't have a widescreen movie
> -- especially in the case of anime TV series. If there are no black
> borders, you usually want the subtitles as far off of the movie as
> possible...but you might not quite want subpos=100, since it might run
> off the bottom on a television screen, or just look awkward being that
> close to the edge. IMO both behaviors should be available and
> selectable at runtime. Is this too much to ask?

You can set sub_pos to 100 (it's default if I remember well). This is
because subtitle position is always checked against screen size and if
needed corrected to be on-screen.

		JS