[MPlayer-users] How to force SSA subtitles size to constant one ?

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Thursday 02 August 2007, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi Evgeniy Stepanov!
>
>  On 2007.08.02 at 21:37:09 +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote next:
> > SSA/ASS subtitles are scaled proportional to movie height, so with these
> > two movies their size (in pixels) should be identical. If you have a
> > sample where they aren't, send it.
>
> Is there any way to make them proportional to movie width? IMHO it's
> much more logical, never understood why somebody would want to scale
> subtitles with movie height. I mean, it's so natural to have exactly the
> same subtitles of the same size both in 640x480 and 640x288 videos and
> different scaling coefficients for 640x288 vs. 352x288 videos. When
> scaling is proportional to movie height, these examples look bad in
> comparison.

Of course it is possible with some coding ) Invent a new header or style value 
(something like subfont-autoscale), add it to ass_track_t, make it accessable 
through ass-force-style, and use it in font_size_coeff calculation. Not sure 
when (or if) I'll get myself to do it.