[MPlayer-users] Re: Default subtitle font

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Friday 20 April 2007 04:59, José Filipe wrote:
> Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin <at> VM10124.spb.edu> writes:
> > It always scales them according to resolution (hence autoscale), but it
> > means that quartz driver puts subtitles on video and then renders it as
> > a whole, like most drivers do.
> >
> >
> > I don't know how libass rendering works together with autoscale. "font"
> > option may be ignored too. Try disabling ass for this test.
>
> Without libass activated I get the same problem. Very bad quality font
> display.
>
> About the macosx driver: all the problems I have with subtitles exist in
> macosx and quartz.

You can prescale the image with -vf-add scale=1024:-2, it will give you nice 
subtitles but requires a decent cpu. Currently -vo gl is the only driver that 
renders -ass subtitles in screen resolution.