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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:04:12AM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> On Saturday, September 14, 2002 at 22:01, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > 
> > > Or another approach: skip sub_align_top, use only sub_pos. If
> > > sub_pos is below 50 (i.e. top half of screen), use top alignment,
> > > otherwise bottom alignment. (Actually I outlined the code for this
> > > in an earlier post.)
> > 
> > Huh? This is total nonsense. Whether you want top/bottom alignment has
> > nothing to do with whether the subs are above or below 50%. It's more
> > related to whether you're putting them in a black border below the
> > movie, or else in front of the picture. In any case, there's a much
> > better way to do it without adding a new option: just make negative
> > subpos indicate bottom alignment.
> 
> Okay, let me get this thing straigt. :) Who would want top alignment
> when the subs are in the bottom black border? And why?
> 
> Does any TV channel you know put subtitles like this? Are the sub-
> titles on any DVD you seen put like this? (Maybe it is different
> in other parts of the world, I dunno, but I doubt it.)

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