[MPlayer-users] Ugly Subtitles on TV with H+ and Mplayer

[Robert R. Wal]

On 03.02.01 D Richard Felker III pressed the following keys:

> > Don't know if it's the device driver or mplayer. 
> > When played with mplayer on my monitor with out the DXR3 driver, the
> > position and font look very nice, as does the picture. 
> > When played on my TV the position is wrong, the font is very small and
> > distorted. Choosing a 22 size font helps a bit but it's still annoying
> > to have a bad looking subtitle on my screen. I tried the latest version
> > and tried all font settings without success. I'm played XVID files with
> > *.srt subtitles.
> > Does anyone have some suggestions how to solve this?
> 
> Try -vop expand=0:0:0:0:1 to render subtitles in software rather than
> using the dxr3's subpic device. Of course if you're playing mpeg1/2
> files with passthru this will make things a lot slower since it will
> require reencoding, but if you're just playing mpeg4 files it should
> be fine.

Additionally, last time I checked, software subtitle rendering for dxr3
output worked only with -vc ffmpeg12, while the default is -vc mpeg12

Is there any reason to prefer mpeg12 over ffmpeg12 at all?

Robert

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