[MPlayer-users] Subtitles question --> changing font doesn't work

[EC]

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:27:53 -0800 (PST)
Ioan <ioan123 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I would like to change the subtitles font, so I copied
> the MPlayer font in ~/.mplayer/fonts
> 
> But if I rip a vob file to my hard drive and I would
> like to see it with subtitles, MPlayer doesn't use
> this font for the subtitles - it does thought for the
> OSD (progress bar, remaining time) - but not for the
> subtitles
> 
> Tried also with the CVS version - same problem
> 
> Any thoughts welcome
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ioan
> 

Subtitles on dvd's are in vobsub, a bitmap format.  If you want to use
them as regular text you will need to process them with an OCR
program. Otherwise you can keep the bitmaps the way they are.

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Fri:Jan:06:06
Eli C.