[MPlayer-users] Fw: Subtitles Positioning - NOVIRUS

[JiHO]

Fabio Papa wrote:
>>> Yesterday a saw a mail from a user in this list that posted an image
>>> showing the subtitles positioned at the bottom o the
>>> screen/picture, I'd like to know how he did it.
>>> I extracted the subtitles in MPSub format, I extrcted the two files .idx
>> and
>>> .sub I was playing with the -vobsub  and -subpos but cannot place the
>>> subtitles bellow of  the the picture. Someone told that -vf expand does
>> that
>>> trick, I could not figure it out how to do that, sorry.

> Take a look at -vf expand. There's also a clear example in the docs.

it will be possible with vf expand indeed but only for srt or other text 
based subtitle format. with .idx and .sub (image based subtitle format) 
the position fixed and can't be changed with MPlayer's subtitles 
position shortcut. It could be placed in the black bands by expanding 
them a lot but then the font of the subtitle will be expanded too which 
is not really good.
your solution is to convert your .idx and .sub to srt and then to use 
-vf expand. there are somme tools for that. check subrip.c in the TOOLS 
section of mplayer's code.
-- 
JiHO
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   Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau :
à chaque nouvelle cuvée on sait que ce sera dégueulasse,
     mais on en prend quand même, par masochisme.
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