[MPlayer-dev-eng] ?[patch]? Bottom aligned subtitles

[Oskar Liljeblad]

On Sunday, September 15, 2002 at 10:11, Ji?í Svoboda wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, let me get this thing straigt. :) Who would want top 
> > alignment when the subs are in the bottom black border? And why?
> 
> Sometimes ME. I want to have them just bellow the movie. Especially 
> when you have small subtitles and widescreen movie and thus big
> black bands it's not very comfortable go far from the movie to locate
> subtitles.

Ok, that sounds like a reasonable point.

> About sub_end_pos < sub_pus -> nothing bad will happen. Subtitles will
> be botom aligned to sub_end_pos. Sub_pos is taken always as hint 
> (also in current implementation) so if there is not enough space
> Sub_pos is ignored.
> 
> I thing that implementation with positive/negative value of subpos looks
> for me as best solution.

Well, I don't see how that would solve anything technically. A sub_pos
between -100 and 100 is the same as a sub_pos between 0 and 100 and
a boolean variable. Also, when the subs are at the top-most position
(sub_pos=0), and you press R, would they not be further down
(sub_pos=-1)?

Anyway, I'd like to see a sub_pos_valign or something (top/center/bottom).
In the future, a sub_pos_halign (left/center/right) might be useful too.
In this case neither an additional boolean value or a negative value for
sub_pos would do.

Oskar Liljeblad (oskar at osk.mine.nu)