[MPlayer-dev-eng] Any additional features for inclusion in rc3

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Thu Jan 23 22:19:24 CET 2003


Hi,

in short: RTFM!

> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Definitely include this. The old bitmap fonts suck; you always have to
> > load different size ones depending on whether you're watching low-res
> > or hi-res movie.
> BTW!
> Instead of useless overlapping, etc subtitles support, I have a better idea.
> Subtitles (TTF) should be automatically scaled according to movie width
> (current method IMHO produces too big subs, but see below), and even

-subfont-text-scale

> according to current panscan!! (Yes I know this isn't a simple thing to code,
> maybe not even possible with current API?)

afaik it's implemented already

> IMHO it would also be a very very nice feature if MPlayer could wrap subtitles.

it does since ages!

> I.e.: a long line of subtitle should be wrapped to 2 lines, _with each line
> being equally wide_. AND, if they would be too wide, they should be wrapped to
> 3 lines instead (however this - currently frequent - ocassion would be nearly
> made extinct if MPlayer could wrap&justify to 2 lines)

> Why? Because for the eye it's extremely uncomfortable to read a line as wide
> as the movie itself, especially if there is just _one_ more word in its
> second line... Suboptimal.

-subwidth

> Ok I shut up

i just wanted to ask.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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