[MEncoder-users] Subtitle outlines when encoding "Whisper of the Heart"

[Giacomo Comes]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:33:21AM -0800, Grant Wagner wrote:
> Hey all,
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>  I'm having some difficulty encoding Whisper of the Heart to a low res avi for playback on a pda using The Core Pocket Media Player. Using the following options generates a nice file, but the subtitles which are burned into the screen are hollow, meaning a white outline and an transparent center. How can I correct this? As a side note, should I play it in mplayer with the same video flags and filters, the sub titles are hollow there to. Playing at a standard size is fine.
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> mencoder.exe dvd://16  -vf crop=720:448:0:14,scale  -zoom -xy 320 -o vid.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=extreme -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4 -sid 1 -alang ja -af volnorm=1:1.0
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> Could it have something to do with the zoom command and is it truely needed? What will be the effect if I remove it?

-zoom -xy 320 are really not necessary with mencoder.
You should use -vf scale with appropriate arguments like -vf scale=320:0
(the numeric example I give [scale=320:0] is just an example. I don't
remember right now the correct usage for dealing with the aspect ratio;
check the documentation).

Giacomo