[MPlayer-users] Feature request: color subtitles

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:00:48AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Savchenko Andrew wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >Can subtitles be color or moreover transparent in MPlayer? Sometimes
> >white/gray one's are not suitable.
> 
> RTFM. Specifically, you want to read about the -sub-bg-colors and
> -sub-bg-alpha options. (Something tells me there's a third option which
> is more closely related, but I'm not finding it offhand.)
> 
> Note that these two simply allow you to make the subtitles use shades of
> some other color than black; multicolor subtitles are apparently not
> possible without an extensive redesign.

Nope. They just let you pick the shade of gray. :)

Rich