[MEncoder-users] Subtitle transparency

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quartidi 24 pluviôse, an CCXVI, RVM a écrit :
> > Using -ass. 
> > Well mencoder doesn't support -ass yet, I think, but I took some patches from 
> > this thread in mplayer-dev-eng and now I got nice yellow subtitles with no 
> > transparency at all:
> 
> If one does not want to patch mplayer, it is also possible to use -ass in
> mplayer, output the video to yuv4mpeg and the audio to PCM into pipes,
> encode them separately, and mux them together¹.
> 
> Note that if your video has irregular timestamps, you will first need to use
> mencoder to regularize them. That makes a lot of pipe.
> 
> I still entertain the idea of merging mencoder as an output driver of
> mplayer, but my last attempt to do that failed miserably.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
>   Nicolas George
> 
> 
> 1 : if someone knows a tool to add an infinite buffer on a pipe chain to
> avoid deadlock situations in such cases, I am very interested.

There's a program that comes with timidity that can do such buffering,
I think..

Rich