[MPlayer-users] subtitle problems

[Fabio Papa]

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 22:05, Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> im trying to play a VOB of a dvd of mine, and i cant get the subtitles
> to look the way i want. they have a thick, white outline around each
> letter, which i strongly dislike, and the text itself looks
> semi-transparent, which i dont want. im using the following command:
>
> mplayer -aid 128 -sid 0 CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon.vob
>
> and i tried a bunch of other option to remove the outline...
> -subfont-outline 0 ... -sub-bg-alpha 0 ...  and a lot more, to no avail.
>
> ideally i want a one-pixel think black outline (not too thick!) and
> white, non-transparent text. but if this isn't possible, then just all
> black or all white text, but with NO outline whatsoever.
Every movie has different palette to show subtitles right. The VOB file alone
doesn't contain it. You need the .IFO file that was originally associated
with the VOB file and specify it with the -ifo parameter.

>
> thanks again,
>
> farrell f.
>
> ps. im using MPlayer dev-CVS-030622-22:09-3.2.2...i know cvs get broken
> a lot, and this may be part of all of my problem. but this seems to be
> the only version that correctly does two pass encoding using lavc for
> some of my movies.
>
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