[MPlayer-users] playing .ass subtitles with mplayer

[Saurabh Singhvi]

On 2/10/07, ajaxas <ajaxas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Hi ajaxas,

thanks for your reply.

Upgrading fontconfig to the latest version didn't help :(. I have mailed
Evgeniy about this. If this works out right, this is going to be amazing !

cheers
Saurabh


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