[MPlayer-users] Positioning subtitles

[Alex Somesan]

Rather off-topic:

I understand that the Xv context which mplayer uses to
display the movie is limited to the same area and
aspect as the frame size of the stream, but I'm
curious (as am not an experienced X developer) if
there is a way to address the rest of the screen while
playing the movie unsing plain Xlib functions (does it
have a windows ID or something) so that subtitles cand
be rendered there?

--- Gábor Lénárt <lgb at lgb.hu> wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Re,
> 
> This a quite frequently question imho :) MPlayer
> does not know too much about
> the black bands, because they're _NOT_ part of the
> movie! Maybe eg you play
> a film with aspect ratio of 16:9 on a 4:3
> monitor/TV. Of course you will have
> got black bands but this is NOT the content of the
> movie so OF COURSE you
> can't place a subtitle for that easily, at least not
> with -subpos or other
> options. BUT do not worry, there IS solution ;-) You
> should ask MPlayer
> to expand the image content, so mplayer can handle
> the bands well. This can
> be done with 'expand' video filter and it's well
> documented in the man page.
> Just view the man page, and search for word 'expand'
> and you'll see.
> Hope it helps.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:13:00AM -0700, Alex
> Somesan wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also
> read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Mind my stupidity if so is the case, but how can
> one
> > place the subtitles of a divx,etc. movie on the
> black
> > stripe beneath the actual movie -a la MicroDVD or
> > MV2Player- (provided it has a different aspect
> ratio
> > than the screen). I have tried several different
> > combinations of -subalign and -subpos parameters.
> Is
> > it at all possible with mplayer? Is there a
> problem
> > with my build?
> > 
> > Thanks for your support.
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
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