[MPlayer-users] Inverse characters in MPlayer + aalib

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:19:53PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:31:51PM +0000, Toni wrote:
> > I've noticed that the 'aalib' or 'aa' video output plugin for MPlayer does 
> > something it didn't do before: it uses inverse characters for display (black 
> > text over white background). I've tried several combinations of aalib options: 
> > noinverse , noreverse , nobold , noboldfont, but they don't work. I'm not sure 
> > if the right syntax for passing arguments to the video output plugins is '-vo 
> > aa -aa:noinverse' or '-vo aa:noinverse'. Anyone sucessfully passes arguments 
> > to mplayer plugins?
> 
> It works somewhat for me.
> Of course those specific ones you tried are pointless, since those are
> the default settings. So obviously you won't see a difference.
> But you should see the difference if you compare to
> -vo aa:inverse
> However something is broken since it gives completely different
> output from toggling this options by pressing '7'.

Should be fixed in latest SVN.