[MPlayer-users] Subtitle Question

[Ketil Z. Malde]

D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:

> > But it *does* have something to do with his question.  He wanted not
> > only to change the color, but to change the transparency.  I told him
> > how to change the transparency.

> No, you did not. You told him how to create a solid box behind the
> subtitles and adjust the transparency of the box!! DVD subtitles in
> mplayer aren't transparent at all afaik. They just only affect the
> luma channel, so you still so chroma variations "through" or "on top
> of" the subtitles.

I've seen some "transparent-looking" subtitles in an MPEG4-encoded
avi, but I suspect it was due to interlace problem (looked
horizontally striped).  Or something.  Perhaps this is what the
original poster was thinking of?

-kzm
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