[MPlayer-users] cannot change DVD subtitle position

[Alexander Roalter]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2/24/06, Michael Holland <mplayer at golden.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>> I'm trying to move DVD subtitles to the black area below the picture.
>> The -subpos and -subalign args seem to have no effect.
>> Ditto for subpos and subalign in .mplayer/config .
>> Interactively, the t/r keys generate OSD feedback that the position
>> is moving, but the titles just stay there, in the usual position.
>>
>> Happens in Linx and win32, in MPlayer dev-CVS-060223-22:27-4.0.2,
>> and in MPlayer-1.0pre7 . Mencoder too.
>>
>> e.g.  $ mplayer dvd://1  -slang en -subalign 2 -subpos 95
>>
>> I've done this successfully in the past. I must be doing something
>> wrong, as this appears to be old, but I cannot find any mention in
>> the list archives, or docs.
> 
> AFAIK, you can't move bitmap-based subs like vobsub, but all
> text-based subs can be move around the screen.
> 
> HIH
> Guillaume

If it helps, I use crop/expand to move the bitmap subtitles (the ones 
found on DVDs) around. If I play a scope movie (2.35:1), I want to have 
the subtitles entirely in the picture area, not in the black bars (for 
projection purposes, subtitles should always appear on screen, not in 
the curtains/maskings below the screen ;). So cropping a scope DVD does 
this for me (interestingly enough, cropping only affects the video 
stream, not the subtitle stream, which will be formatted to fit entirely 
in the remaining cropped image.

If you expand a 16:9-Picture to a 4:3-Picture (by adding the black bars 
below and above with -vf expand), you should be able to place the 
subtitles out of the image (of course this cannot work with 4:3-Videos...

on how to expand and crop: it's all in the manual

hth,
Alex