[MPlayer-users] [PATCH] be CCIR-601ish about "-vf expand"

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:36:18 -0400,
D Richard Felker III wrote:

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> Hint: mplayer is not a dvd/vcd/whatever player. It plays all
> movies.  Including many that have nothing to do with and
> couldn't care less about broadcast standards.
> 
> Also, I seem to recall that there are standards (or at least
> expectations) now about sub-black black and super-white white, and
> that modern fancy TV sets and other equipment are expected to handle
> them well...
> 
> BTW, maybe (?) a good way to handle this would be adding an extra
> option to vf_expand for the color (or just intensity?) to use. It
> could be given as a number, or one of several mnemonics such as
> ccir601, etc.

I'd vote for this feature. For some reason all my ripped vobsubs
appear black.  A blue border will definitely be more visible than
antialiased black on black.

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