[MPlayer-users] How to force SSA subtitles size to constant one ?

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Παναγιώτης Κατσαλούλης wrote:
>  > On Friday 03 August 2007, Sasza wrote:
>  > > > SSA/ASS subtitles are scaled proportional to movie height, so
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> with these
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>  > > > two movies their size (in pixels) should be identical. If you
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> have a
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>  > > > sample where they aren't, send it.
>  > >
>  > > I have. Both .mkv files are AVC1 encoded 1280x544 movies with
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> the same
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>  > > resolution. They gives total different subs font size (one 2 times
>  > > smaller than other).
>  > > Q: Both files are 5GB files - so how can I sent it ?
>  >
>  > So you have different subtitles with the same video resolution ?
>
> Most likely
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>  > they have different PlayResX/PlayResY settings. Currently there is
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> no way to
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>  > override it in mplayer. You can extract subtitles with mkvextract
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> and fix the
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>  > resulting .ass file. MPlayer calculates font size as FontSize * video
>  > height / PlayResY.
>
> So, the only way to set a font to a fixed size is to do something like:
> -ass-font-scale (PlayResY/video height)

No, -ass-font-scale multiplies all font sizes by a fixed amount. Different 
styles will look differently. What you meant is probably -ass-force-style 
FontSize=(desired size * PlayResY / video height).

> Since I can't get this information prior mplayer execution, is there
> any way to set fixed font size for ass subtitles and override this
> formula?
> Like what -subfont-autoscale 0 does.

Not right now.