[MPlayer-users] Software or hardware scaling for subtitles (was: When will there be a new release?)

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi,

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 23:14, Nicolas George wrote:
[...]
> I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Let me add some
> details.
>
> The default behaviour, at least with XVideo, is to do thing in
> that order:
>
> video decoding -> subtitles rendering -> scaling -> display
>
> with scaling and display taking place both inside the video
> card.
[...]
> On the other hand, if you do things in that order:
>
> video decoding -> scaling -> subtitles rendering -> display

Well, perhaps, this depends on your video output. I use -vo gl. And 
I just tested with small resolution video with subtitles: they are 
scaled nice to the screen resolution using just fontconfig.

> With the GL output drivers, it is possible to add subtitles
> after hardware scaling. Unfortunately, having a X11 server with
> working OpenGL is much harder than having a X11 server with
> working XVideo. Furthermore, with Intel video controllers (at
> least mine), which is the easiest way to get OpenGL working, GL
> output has some tearing, while XVideo overlay does not.

I use GL output and see no tearing, my card is nVidia GT7300 with 
proprietary driver. I know, this is bad to use this proprietary 
software, but it is the only way to make GL work on my PC.

Best regards,
Andrew
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