[MPlayer-users] Fonts

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:36:45PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:17:04PM -0500, davidgn at servidor.unam.mx wrote:
> >
> >>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >>
> >>Hello.
> >>I was just wondering, why does every movie has jagged subtitles?
> >>Is there anything I can do to make the subtitles appear as smooth as the 
> >>time
> >>osd font? I have tried some few combinations, but as there are so many, 
> >>Im not
> >>sure if Im missing something.
> >
> >
> >DVD subtitles are horrible ugly bitmaps, so that's why they look bad.
> >If you want to smooth them out, add spuaa=20 to your .mplayer/config
> >(or put -spuaa 20 on the command line), but it may make mplayer slow
> >down slightly when a subtitle is displayed.
> >
> 
> I just tried that out, and I noticed that when I use -spuaa 20, there's
> a thin vertical black line to the right of some subtitles. I've watched
> it for a few minutes, and I can't find any correlation as to when the
> line will show up and when it won't, but it seems to be there for about
> half the subtitles I've seen. I'm attaching a jpeg screenshot of what it
> looks like, along with mplayer -v pasted below. Can anyone reproduce
> this, or should I make a full bugreport?


Yeah. I wrote the -spuaa code, and noticed this too a long time ago.
Not sure what causes it, though, since it was something of a quick
hack on my part, and I'm not really familiar with the OSD code...

Rich