[MPlayer-users] Bugs about displaying vobsub subtitles

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Aug 22, 2006, at 07.46, chattoimprove wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>     I'd like to report an annoying bug of MPlayer.
>
>   1. when displaying vobsubs it ignores the subtitlecolors  
> specified in the ifo and always displays white.

It's probably not a bug, but just an unsupported feature. Given that  
MPlayer is coded by a bunch of people who do this mostly in their  
free time, and don't get paid for it, I feel rather fortunate that  
MPlayer supports all that it does already!

>   2. besides, even though MPlayer can display vobsub subtitles in a  
> dynamic way, however, that only works when all the vobsub subtitles  
> are supposed to display at the lower part of the screen, when some  
> of the vobsub subtitles are supposed to display at the top position  
> of the screen, (e.g, when there is a name tag about someone so the  
> subtitles are displayed at the top position in order to avoid  
> covering the name tag )  MPlayer simply displays all the vobsub  
> subtitles at the lower position of the screen, that way some of the  
> important info are being shadowed by the subtitles.

It's entirely possible this is another unsupported feature. I've  
never had the problem you're describing, however. I've had subtitles  
that have successfully been extracted and played back (Stored on the  
disk as a VobSub) where text appears at the top and bottom of the  
screen. As far as color, I haven't tried this with any colored  
subtitles.

> i was wondering if these could be solved.

Given time, yes. However, I think the coders have higher priorities,  
such as getting MPlayer to read interlaced H.264 streams that the  
Beeb seems to want to broadcast, and finalizing the NUT spec.
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