[MPlayer-dev-eng] Colored subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:09:48PM +0100, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> >I see what you mean. It then perhaps a better idea to rethink the subtitle 
> >stuff
> >from the ground.  Shouldn't we rather try to integrate the subtitles 
> >properly in
> >libmpdemux and libmpcodecs. That would make sense imho we could then have
> >a proper color support and subtitle filters for convertion, spu encoding, 
> >spell
> >checking, etc (add more sub fans dreams here ;)
> > 
> >
> Implementing OSD as a video filter is a nice idea but there are issues 
> at least with SDL & X11 drivers. vo_SDL needs access to subtitles to 
> display them in the black bands, and X11 accepts only YUV  formats. So 

This is a stupid hack and should be removed, IMHO. -vop expand can do
the same thing.

Rich