[MPlayer-users] RFE: Subtitles at the real adge of the screen?

[ivanova]

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:38:35 +0200
Daniel Mladek <dmladek at netbeans.com> wrote:

> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >On Thursday, 05 August 2004 at 15:08, JiHO wrote:
> >>>But why it doesn't support to use whole screen/monitor area ? Then
> >>>watching movie(wide-screen) with subtitles will be
> >>>much comfortable if subtitles are under the area used by wide-screen
> >>>film.
> >>>What I mean you could see at attached picture (hope that 7380b doesn't
> >>>ruin anyone with low connection).
> >>>Definitely some M$Win players know that.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>It's possible to do this with the -vf expand option. check it in the
> >>manual, everything is explained.
> >And I think there's a patch floating around in -dev-eng that does this
> >automagically.
> Thanks for your answers, but I'm afraid I need some more help. Those 
> VideoFilters seems to be
> pretty complicated stuff for me.
> I've searched man mplayer and HTML documentation.

from the man page:

expand[=w:h:x:y:o]
              Expands  (not  scales)  movie  resolution to the given value and
              places the unscaled original at coordinates x, y.  Can  be  used
              for placing subtitles/OSD in the resulting black bands.

                 w,h  expanded  width,height (default: original width,height).
                      Negative values for w and h are treated  as  offsets  to
                      the original size.

                      EXAMPLE:
                           expand=0:-50:0:0
                                  adds  a 50 pixel border to the bottom of the
                                  picture

                 x,y  position of original image on the  expanded  image  (de-
                      fault: center)

                 o    OSD/subtitle rendering
                         0: disable (default)
                         1: enable

So what you probably want to do is add a black border to the top and bottom of
the picture:

mplayer movie.avi -vf expand=0:-300

This will make the height 300 pixels larger and because there is no x,y position
the default will center the image. So you have a 150 pixels top and bottom border.