[MPlayer-users] configure script patch

[Tomáš Janoušek]

Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:16:51PM -0400  Rich Felker napsal:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:45:37PM +0200, Tomá? Janou?ek wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:17:29AM -0400  Rich Felker napsal:
> > > libGL.so (or .a, whatever) will probably do. Anyway, GL output is
> > > slower and lower quality than normal video overlay, so why even
> > > bother?
> > 
> > As far as I know, GL is the only vo which supports drawing Xft subtitles into
> > hw scaled video. Another alternative is only the software scaler. Try watching
> > a 40x30 pixel video with subtitles using xv output and you'll understand why
> > GL vo is good.
> 
> If the video is the small, you can software scale to 640x480 or so..
> However, 40x30 sucks to the point of not being watchable. Normal
> MPlayer-rendered subs look fine on all reasonable video sizes.

Yes, 40x30 sucks, but that's not an argument. Players on Windows do draw
subtitles into a screen, not into a movie and have no problems. MPlayer is
able to do it only with GL... Strange.

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