[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] rendering of Matroska plaintext subs with libass

[Tomas Janousek]

Hello,

Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 August 2006 11:49, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
>> Is it just "one step forward to ditch old subtitle layer" or is it
>> smth else?
> 
> Exactly. Currently, libass is used for rendering SSA/ASS subtitles from 
> matroska files and all subtitle formats from external files (parsing SSA/ASS 
> by itself and everything else with the help of subreader). With this patch, 
> it can also be used for rendering plaintext subtitles from matroska 
> (S_TEXT/UTF8 streams).

Well I think ditching the old subtitle layer is an idea bad as hell. Try 
running a 160x120 video with subtitles with "-ass" and then again 
without that, without any softscaling, without vidmode change and with 
"-vo gl".

I've always thought it's pretty evil to draw subtitles directly into the 
picture, but vo_gl solved this problem for me. Since it doesn't work on 
my notebook, I've thought about drawing subtitles with xosd, or 
something similar, but forcing into-picture rendering for all cleartext 
subtitles (althought you're gonna do it for matroska only) is really 
really evil idea I'm going to hate you for.

And please don't tell me every video nowadays has enough resolution to 
have readable subtitles drawn in it.

Yours sincerely,
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