[MPlayer-users] configure script patch

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:11:02PM +0200, Tomá? Janou?ek wrote:
> 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.

It's not possible with overlay, sorry. And anything else will be much
slower.

Rich