[MPlayer-users] Re: Default subtitle font

[José Filipe]

Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin <at> VM10124.spb.edu> writes:

> I don't know much about OS X.. Not sure if gl is supposed to work there.
> 
> Anyway, autoscale=2 doesn't care about widescreen at all - there should
> be no difference between 672x288 and 672x504. And it should be very
> similar to 640x480. If subtitle fonts are too small in 640x480, just
> increase font size.. If they are smaller in 672x288 than in 640x480,
> maybe something is wrong with your font setup or it's quartz driver
> bug...
> 

The macosx driver also gives me the same problems. What can I do to see if it's
a driver issue or a font issue? 

> There WILL be difference in subtitle font size between 320x240, 640x480
> and 1280x720 videos with most drivers - there are no options to fix
> that. With some drivers, like x11 or gl subtitles are rendered at real
> screen resolution, not movie resolution - it gives very high quality
> fonts and removes this problem. I don't know how it works in quartz, you
> can test this - start playback of low-resolution (~320x240) video,
> switch to fullscreen and turn on subtitles/OSD. If fonts quality is
> great, everything is well, if it's poor - you can't get high-quality
> subtitles with low-resolution videos (not related to your current
> problem).

Tested it and the OSD font suck. Too small and with really bad quality. It seems
that is scales according to the resolution of the movie. 
 
> All this is related only to OSD and simple text subtitles. DVD vobsubs
> and libass-rendered subtitles are different story.
> 

All my tests are done with SRT subtitles but with ass activated in the config.
So, in my case, don't all the subtitles get processed through libass?