[MPlayer-users] vobsub and colors

[Giacomo Comes]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:44:07AM +0200, Bayrouni wrote:
> ajaxas a écrit :
> >On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:49:07 +0200
> >Bayrouni <bayrouni at brutele.be> wrote:
> >
> >>Hello all,
> >>
> >>I have many vobsub subtitles (I copied them with mencoder).
> >>But I would like to change the color, I tried some options with mplayer 
> >>but it seems that they doase'nt work with vobsubs. (-ass -ass-color 
> >>options)
> >>
> >>Is there any solution?  I cannot read easly the subtitle while playing 
> >>the movie with mplayer because the color is black.
> >>
> >>thanks for any suggestion.
> >
> >libass is for rendering ASS/SSA subtitles, not Vobsub.
> >
> 
> Ok, I suspected it.
> 
> But, Now is there any way to ameliorate the legibility.
> Black subtitles are really almost unreadable and even simply unreadable 
> sometimes.

It probably means that the color palette contaned in the vobsub is
not the correct one. Try to change it. Look for a palette line in
<vobsub>.idx

Giacomo