[MPlayer-users] subtitles and refreshing the black area

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:34, Pál, János wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've just joined the mailing list. I'm using MPlayer under Windows (2000 at
> the moment).
> I have a widescreen notebook with 1680x1050 resolution.
> I wanted to watch an avi ripped from a TV movie, and the default settings
> streched the picture width of course, not keeping the original aspect
> ratio. So I looked in the man page, and soon found that I need:
> monitorpixelaspect=1
> in the config.
>
> I also wanted subtitles, but with these settings they were also restricted
> to the movie area. I needed to expand the picture, so the subtitles would
> display in fewer rows (as earlier when the picture was streched).
> After a little research, I added the line:
> vf=expand=:::::1.6:4
> in my config (the last number is because the black area on the sides had
> these morphing, blurry squares otherwise).
>
> I  thought this would solve all my problems. Unfortunately the black area
> is never refreshed, so the fragments of the earlier subtitles always remain
> on the sides, leaving more and more irritating, flickering rubbish behind.
>
> Does anyone no the solution to this?

Try -ass and related options.