[MPlayer-users] Some problems with -ass subtitles

[Pepe]

El Lunes, 30 de Octubre de 2006 02:51, Evgeniy Stepanov escribió:
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 04:46, Pepe wrote:
> > This is using the -ass option but with srt subtitles, not ssa/ass.
> >
> > First of all, sometimes the border of the characters is transparent:
> > http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/a8dc8f0b73.jpg
>
> Could you give more information on your system, mplayer command line, used
> fonts, freetype version, etc. ? Are you using MacOSX by any chance ? A
> higher resolution screenshot will also be welcome. It can be done with
> options like -vf scale=1280:-2 -ass-font-scale 5.

I'm using linux, freetype2-2.1.9-3. 

The command line:
mplayer video.avi -ass -vf scale=1280:-2 -ass-font-scale 1.3 -fontconfig -font 
utopia -vo x11

Other options I have in ~/.mplayer/config:
spuaa = 4
font = /home/ricardo/.fonts/arialbd.ttf
subfont-autoscale = 1
subfont-text-scale = 5
subcp = latin1
ffactor = 1

Screenshot:
http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/d568a70161.jpg

I used the font utopia, because it happens a lot with that font. 

Here is a screenshot with the default font and -ass-font-scale 1.2, there are 
some transparency in the last two words:
http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/6af6fc4b5e.jpg

> Also, does this effect go away if you change font or movie resolution ?

I think that when the font is smaller it looks better, but the effect doesn't 
go away completly. Utopia has this effect even with a smaller font.

Screenshot with the default font (and -ass-font-scale 1.2) and not scaling the 
movie:
http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/ea3d83c088.jpg

The same but with the utopia font:
http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/ddd8562bc0.jpg

-- 
Pepe