[MPlayer-dev-eng] Colored subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:24:02PM +0100, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> I have no objection against removing the osd code from vo and making one 
> filter instead (or simply using vo_expand permanently) as it simplifies 
> maintaining OSD code a lot. I actually use vf_expand permanently to add 
> the black bands for subtitles, using a simple mplayer.c hack (attached). 
> Adjusting all the OSD callers throughout all vo's was one of the most 
> boring coding jobs I recently did. The only issue (when we forget SDl & 
> aalib) of this approach is that we cannot utilize full 24bit RGB quality 
> with vo_x11 and other vo's with RGB output but that's not a substantial 
> loss.

Why not? -vop expand,scale

However, one thing that does need fixing is that -vop expand is slow.
It needs to be fixed to support slices, IMHO. Same thing with -vop
crop.

Rich