[SPAM DETECT] Re: [MPlayer-users] How to change subtitles color

[Pepe]

El Jueves, 26 de Octubre de 2006 23:33, sofasurfer at gmail.com escribió:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:13:06 +0200
>
> Pepe <rvm3000 at ya.com> wrote:
> > El Jueves, 26 de Octubre de 2006 21:12, Rickard Närström escribió:
> > > torsdag 26 oktober 2006 20:29 skrev Pepe:
> > > > Is it possible to change the subtitles' color?
> > > >
> > > > I can see the new 1.0rc1 has the option -ass-color.
> > > > First of all, how can I convert a srt to SSA/ASS format?
> > > >
> > > > Second, does the -ass-color option really work? Because I tried
> > > > to change the color but the subtitles are always white. Of course
> > > > I used -ass too.
> > >
> > > The color is given in 32-bit HEX RRGGBBTT
> > >
> > > RR = Red
> > > GG = Green
> > > BB = Blue
> > > TT = Transparency
> > >
> > > So.. ffffff00 is white, 00000000 is black, ff000077 is
> > > semi-transparent red etc.
> > >
> > > Hmm... the man-page says RRGGGBBAA witch is wrong, the last value is
> > > transparence value ie. FF is full transparency (no alpha) and 00 is
> > > no trancparency (full alpha)
> >
> > No way, even if I use 00000000 the subtitles are white.
>
> this is what i've noticed:
>  - when using normal txt subtitles (.sub,.srt) i can change color with
> -ass-color and -ass-border-color options
>  - when using .ssa subtitles, using -ass option makes mplayer reading
> the font properties from .ssa file, but it disregards -ass-color and
> -ass-border-color options; without -ass option, subtitles are white.
>
> so, if you want to have colored subtitles, either use .sub, .srt...
> with -ass -ass-color and -ass-border-color, or use .ssa subtitles with
> -ass and change the color in .ssa file.

Works!

But the font it uses is not the one I selected with -font, why?
There's this message in the output:
fontconfig: selected font family is not the requested one: 'Verdana' != 'Sans'


-- 
Pepe