[MPlayer-users] Re: Render subtitles into PNG images?

[Alban Bedel]

Hi D Richard Felker III,

on Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:02:05 -0400 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 04:51:09PM -0700, rcooley
> wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 
> > 
> > Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > >Seems like the default for the subtitles is to be
> > >disabled for -vo {png,jpeg}, and enabled for everything
> > >else.  That's a bit counter-intuitive.  I mean, when
> > >I use the -sid option, it's pretty much clear that I
> > >_do_ want the damn subtitles.  :-)
> > 
> > The only problem with that logic, is that mplayer could be getting the
> > 
> > command to enable subtitles from the config file, rather than the 
> > command-line, so it doesn't necessarily mean you want them in output
> > images.
> > 
> > Then again, I suppose you could be right, since many options need to
> > be manually selected from the command-line to disable the config or 
> > defaults when doing -vo jpeg/png.  Such as -nosound (who wants sound
> > for that?), and -osdlevel 0 (if you are also using -ss), etc.
> > 
> > Hey, I've seen plenty of things that aren't very intuitive in mplayer,
> > 
> > but that tends to happen in any complex piece of software.
> 
> It has nothing to do with trying to be helpful... vo_png just doesn't
> have osd rendering code in it. Actually, forcing each vo driver to
> have osd rendering is a stupid design, so in G2 it's been moved
> outside.
But it still possible to render osd in the vf chain using vf_expand.
	Albeu
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