[MPlayer-users] Do subtitles automatically scale when -vop scale is used?

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Ed Fisher wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>It seems to me they don't.  That is, the autoscale for the subtitles is
>applied before -vop scale comes into effect.
>
It seems to me they do. Which -vo do you use? Which autoscale mode?

>As such, a movie with a small initial resolution (say, 512x384) whose
>subtitles are scaled appropriately by mplayer, will have really
>relatively tiny subtitles when the movie is scaled to 640x480 or
>800x600.
>
>http://debacle.org/~gleam/subtitles-orig.jpg
>http://debacle.org/~gleam/subtitles-800.jpg
>
>As you can see, the subtitles don't change in size even though the movie
>itself is getting larger.  The subfont scaling is calculated on the
>original resolution of the movie, not the resolution to which it has
>been scaled -- this is a pain in the butt.  This can be reproduced with
>any movie+subtitle file.
>  
>
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Jindrich Makovicka