[MPlayer-users] Re: Default subtitle font

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi José Filipe!

 On 2007.04.19 at 13:01:13 +0000, José Filipe wrote next:

> I'm on Mac OS X and I use quartz.
> I've tried gl but I ge this error:

I don't know much about OS X.. Not sure if gl is supposed to work there.

Anyway, autoscale=2 doesn't care about widescreen at all - there should
be no difference between 672x288 and 672x504. And it should be very
similar to 640x480. If subtitle fonts are too small in 640x480, just
increase font size.. If they are smaller in 672x288 than in 640x480,
maybe something is wrong with your font setup or it's quartz driver
bug...

There WILL be difference in subtitle font size between 320x240, 640x480
and 1280x720 videos with most drivers - there are no options to fix
that. With some drivers, like x11 or gl subtitles are rendered at real
screen resolution, not movie resolution - it gives very high quality
fonts and removes this problem. I don't know how it works in quartz, you
can test this - start playback of low-resolution (~320x240) video,
switch to fullscreen and turn on subtitles/OSD. If fonts quality is
great, everything is well, if it's poor - you can't get high-quality
subtitles with low-resolution videos (not related to your current
problem).

All this is related only to OSD and simple text subtitles. DVD vobsubs
and libass-rendered subtitles are different story.

-- 

Vladimir