[MPlayer-dev-eng] Default OSD and subtitle font sizes

[compn]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:08:37 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 03:53:51PM +0100, Grigori Goronzy wrote:
>> Grigori G wrote:
>> > the default OSD and subtitle font sizes -- 6% and 5% of the movie diagonal
>> > -- are ridiculously big in my opinion. This especially gets bad with
>> > subtitles, which sometimes stack up over the whole screen.
>> >
>> 
>> I'd like to warm this up again.  Here's an example screenshot that shows
>> how much of the screen can be occupied by OSD and subtitles with the
>> default settings and freetype subtitle rendering:
>> http://chown.ath.cx/~greg/uploader/files/huge.png
>> 
>> Does nobody care about having sane and usable defaults?
>
>Clearly what is "sane and usable" depends on how well your eyes work
>and how sharp you display device is (small text can be hard to read on
>TVs).
>That said I have
>subfont-text-scale=3
>subfont-osd-scale=4
>in my config file, and I don't mind changing the MPlayer defaults to
>e.g. those values if there is no opposition to it.

my config:
subfont-text-scale=3
ass-font-scale=1
ass-use-margins=1
ass-bottom-margin=70

while we are at it, 
user-agent=WMPlayer/10.0.0.4058
avoids a loop with some mms servers
http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1036
this should be fixed or discussed, leaving it open is very bad...
i think it might be a regression from rc2.

-compn