[MPlayer-users] playing .ass subtitles with mplayer

[Ajax]

On 2/8/07, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2007, at 07.18, Saurabh Singhvi wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > Is there any way to visualize the subtitles as-is that are in
> > the .ass format (output by sabbu) ?? By that I do not mean to imply
> > that mplayer does not recognize this format, because it does so.
> > What I mean to ask for is a way to have the subtitles displayed in
> > the positions and sizes as specified by the subtitle file.
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> As far as I'm aware, those features of ASS haven't been implemented
> into MPlayer yet, so the answer is "not yet."


As far as I'm aware, this goal is within your grasp: just type mplayer -ass
and you get your ASS/SSA support. The feature is available since RC1 and is
well-developed at the moment. I even added a proper notice to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mplayer
See your mplayer tree for /libass.