[MPlayer-users] subtitle problems

[Ruben Garcia]

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Farrell Farahbod wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> im trying to play a VOB of a dvd of mine, and i cant get the subtitles
> to look the way i want. they have a thick, white outline around each
> letter, which i strongly dislike, and the text itself looks
> semi-transparent, which i dont want. im using the following command:
> 
> mplayer -aid 128 -sid 0 CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon.vob
> 
> and i tried a bunch of other option to remove the outline...
> -subfont-outline 0 ... -sub-bg-alpha 0 ...  and a lot more, to no avail.
> 
> ideally i want a one-pixel think black outline (not too thick!) and
> white, non-transparent text. but if this isn't possible, then just all
> black or all white text, but with NO outline whatsoever.
> 
> thanks again,
> 
> farrell f.
> 
> ps. im using MPlayer dev-CVS-030622-22:09-3.2.2...i know cvs get broken
> a lot, and this may be part of all of my problem. but this seems to be
> the only version that correctly does two pass encoding using lavc for
> some of my movies.
> 
I'm having the same problem.
BTW, there is a program in mplayer which changes .vob subtitles into 
text-based ones, but I didn't manage to get it working. The build 
instructions where outdated last time I tried to compile it, as well.

Can the writer of the program give a small tutorial on how to do it?
I always get segfaults when I execute it.
Once we have the subtitles as text, it should be easy to change font, 
colour, size and so on.
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