[MPlayer-dev-eng] Custom subtitle output

[Gast]

Reimar Döffinger schrieb:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:36:03AM +0200, Gast wrote:
>> I would like to ask if it is possible to show the subtitles
>> on stdout instead drawing them on the OSD. I'd like to
>> use an external liquid crystal display (LCD) to display
>> my subtitles (of course using a file descriptor or direct
>> access to serial port), but the current vo_* seems not
>> to be the right place to do subtitle processing for me.
> 
> For text subtitles: look at mplayer.c:set_osd_subtitle.
> For bitmap subtitles and pre-rendered text: any video filter
> can intercept them, like vf_expand does (or vf_ass for the
> ass subs).

Thank you very much. I'll just get the latest snapshot of
mplayer and try it out. Seems like there is no set_osd_subtitle()
in the mplayer shipped with Ubuntu 8.04.