[MPlayer-users] Bigger subtitles

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:30:36PM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> On 12/20/05, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > I am using mplayer to play a AVI movie with a separate subtitles file
> > (with the extension SRT), and I would like to know how to increase
> > permanently (i.e., for all movies played by mplayer) the size of the
> > font used by mplayer for the subtitles.
> 
> 
> font size is controlled by what font you have installed.
> eg there a abot 5 or 6 arial font sizes from 12 to 28 i think (maybe more or
> less) but the point is to change fonts you need to install more fonts.
> you might want to look into the manpage to see if its possible to install
> multiple fonts at the same time and change it during playback

This only applies for the crappy legacy bitmap fonts. As long as you
have freetype installed you can use scalable (type1 or truetype) fonts
and -subfont-osd-scale to set their size (see the man page).

Rich