[MPlayer-dev-eng] text subtitle position (sub_pos)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:21:51AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > However, when you move the subs up by decreasing sub_pos, it
> > will look something like this:
> > 
> >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> >  |               |          |               |
> >  |     two       |       -> | one line subs |
> >  |  line subs    | <-base?  |               |
> >  |               |          |               |
> >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> >  
> > As you can see, the subtitles are now 'top aligned' instead of
> 
> yes, as it was the goal.
> 
> when you have a widescreen movie, with black bars at top and bottom,
> you want to align the subs right bellow the subtitles.
> 
> > bottom aligned. I want them to look like this:
> > 
> >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> >  |               |          |               |
> >  |     two       |          |               |
> >  |  line subs    | <-base-> | one line subs |
> >  |               |          |               |
> >  +---------------+          +---------------+
> 
> and why is it good?

I think the point is that sometimes you don't have a widescreen movie
-- especially in the case of anime TV series. If there are no black
borders, you usually want the subtitles as far off of the movie as
possible...but you might not quite want subpos=100, since it might run
off the bottom on a television screen, or just look awkward being that
close to the edge. IMO both behaviors should be available and
selectable at runtime. Is this too much to ask?

Rich