[MPlayer-users] Fonts .. OSD Fine/Subtitles garbled

[Patrick.Debois]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:51:26AM +0100, Patrick Debois wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i've downloaded the fonts font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar
> > unzipped them in my mplayer/share/fonts as described in the manual
> > 
> > OSD works fine and gives nice antialiased fonts.
> > 
> > But subtitles are NOT antialiased it seems.
> 
> DVD subtitles? They're bitmaps and unrelated to fonts.
> 
> However, if you want to make them look better, try getting latest CVS
> (I just committed this feature) and use -spuaa 20. If you have success
> with it, please tell us!

Yup, it's working. Thanks!
You're remark about ripping is indeed logically. 

Can i conclude that subtitles can never be in a plain text file when 
ripped because they are bitmaps? I read something about using GOCR but i'm 
not sure.


> 
> > as i have a lot of files to rip this weekend ;-)
> 
> BTW, it's usually much nicer to rip the movie without 'burning'
> subtitles into it, and instead making text subtitles or vobsub files
> to go with the avi file. This not only makes it easy to turn subtitles
> off or reposition them if you want to, but it also improves encoding
> quality, since the sharp outlines of text and its presence over top of
> a moving background make motion estimation fail and cause you to use
> up more bits.



> 
> Rich
> 
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