[MPlayer-dev-eng] Subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:35:31PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >Also I think that subtitle display is cool (alpha channel) and ugly
> >(one font without position and addons like bold, italic, color, etc.)
> 
> This is, as I undestand it, because subtitles are displayed using the
> same system as the OSD - and that is limited to one color and knows no
> special styles. From my time lurking, I think it might become possible
> to do this if the bmovl2 filter ever gets to the point of being
> committed, but in the meantime I don't know how practical wanting to
> improve font variability is.

bmovl2 would be an extremely slow and bloated way to do subtitles.. it
also might be hard to get the timing right..

rich