[MPlayer-users] About overlapping subtitles

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > IMHO it make subtitles "unreadable" when recent and current subtitle are 
> >   at the same time on the screen, and your eye (or brain, if you'd 
> > rather) do get used to read from the topmost line of text. In this 
> > situation you read the same subtitle twice (once as current and once as 
> > recent, when it scrolls up in next step) and it is confusing. Ufff...I 
> > hope you get what I mean...
> 
> I think I get, but this sounds strange to me. Are you saying that when a new
> subtitle, which overlaps the current displayed, appears, it pushes the previous
> upward? This is strange, beacuse this patch should make room on the screen
> for following subtitles that overlap the current with blank lines. If this
> doesn't

yes, but the height of the lines isn't constant, at least teh currect osd
code uses the highest char size + a constant value as line height.
so depending on font and sub text, it may jump a little.

the other problem i got reported (in private) is that some subtitls has
matching or very sligthly overlapping times, but it's enough to trigger your
overlapping code, so it will move teh subtitle up (to make space for the
next one) so the subs are at too high position over the whole film.

maybe the overlapping code should allow a little overlapping without
splitting the sub, ie <0.2s overlap should be left as-is, and split only for
longer overlaps.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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