[MPlayer-users] Bigger subtitles

[Paul Smith]

On 12/21/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > > 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).

Thanks, Rich and |TEcHNO|. You have solved my problem.

Paul