[MPlayer-users] Positioning subtitles

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 04:30:33AM -0700, Alex Somesan wrote:
> 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?

As I've written in my last letter, try expand filter of mplayer
(again: see VIDEO FILTERS section of the man page)
And yes, OSD then can render subtitles there, since each "image"
transfered from the video decoder will be expanded.

> 
> --- 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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