[MPlayer-users] Various questions

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Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would really appreciate if you could give me a couple of hints on the usage.
> I have a customer that will play some video content that will be local
> on the hard drive to a big TV Screen.
>
> The solution will be a black box for him. (no mouse / keyboard)
> Is it possible to invoke mplayer from a cron ( shell script ) to play
> full screen (no bars or labels, just pure video) 
mplayer -fs
and if yoy have a 16/9 video
mplayer -fs -monitoraspect 2.3333

> with a little bit
> customization on the subtitles ?
> Customization on the subtitles means customizable size, 
mplayer -sub "title.srt" -subfont-text-scale 4
> bold letters
> or prosition on screen)
>   
and other option under
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/subosd.html
you can even specify a font (bold family) in your command line.
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Nikos
>   

daniele