[MPlayer-users] vobsub and colors

[Alexander Roalter]

Bayrouni wrote:
> ajaxas a écrit :
>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:49:07 +0200
>> Bayrouni <bayrouni at brutele.be> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have many vobsub subtitles (I copied them with mencoder).
>>> But I would like to change the color, I tried some options with mplayer 
>>> but it seems that they doase'nt work with vobsubs. (-ass -ass-color options)
>>>
>>> Is there any solution?  I cannot read easly the subtitle while playing 
>>> the movie with mplayer because the color is black.
>>>
>>> thanks for any suggestion.
>> libass is for rendering ASS/SSA subtitles, not Vobsub.
>>
> 
> Ok, I suspected it.
> 
> But, Now is there any way to ameliorate the legibility.
> Black subtitles are really almost unreadable and even simply unreadable 
> sometimes.
> 
I'd have to look into it, but if there's a way to extract the subtitles 
from the vob as png files, you could run covert file.png -fill white 
-opaque \#xxxxxx file.png to replace the occurence of color #xxxxxx with 
white, and covert it back to a vobsub (if it is possible).

This is what I do when ripping a DVD and reencoding it (and e.g. 
removing the HoH-Subtitles or creating altogether new ones).

I use spuunmux and spumux from the dvdauthor package, but I'm less than 
confident they will work with vobsubs. But some others on this list my 
know better... :)

hth,
Alex