[MPlayer-users] playing .ass subtitles with mplayer

[ajaxas]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:56:57 +0100
Ilja Kamps <ikarus at ikarus.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:46:22PM +0300, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 February 2007 18:21, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
> > > On Feb 8, 2007, at 07.18, Saurabh Singhvi wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > As far as I'm aware, those features of ASS haven't been implemented
> > > into MPlayer yet, so the answer is "not yet."
> > 
> > These are basic features, and they are implemented. Font sizes are not exactly 
> > as with VobSub, but generally very close.
> 
> Font sizes are exact (on the correct -ass-font-scale), however kerning
> and layouting is slightly different, mainly due to libfreetype.
> 
> The problem really is that only text stuff is implemented, not ANY of
> the more advanced features (drawing, rotating in X and Y planes,
> including images, LINE BREAKS). However in practice it is quite
> sufficient.
> 

I don't remember really well, but I think there was something in the DEV version
log about implementing rotating and such stuff. Try to upgrade you fontconfig up
to the latest version (2.4.2) and/or ask the developer (named earlier Evgeniy
Stepanov) about details.


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