[MPlayer-users] About overlapping subtitles

[Bartosz Jakubski]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:57:59PM +0100, salvatore.falco at katamail.com wrote:
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> 
> However I wold like to say that this patch was originated by the fact that I was
> not satisfied by the way MPlayer-0.90-pre9 handled overlapping subtitles, since
> this resulted in displaying only the first of the overlapping subtitles during the
> overlap time (ok, a bit confused, but I hope you get it). So I would appreciate
> much if those who complained about the patch could explain better what they
> disliked.

I found them annoying because position of one single subtitle in its
screen-lifetime was changing. That is: subtitle can move a little higher
when the next overlapping subtitle gets displayed under it etc.

Myself, I found overlapping subtitles hard to read and misleading (but
that's maybe because low quality of subtitles I have). Are they a divx
subtitle makers idea, or they have another origin?

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