[MPlayer-users] VobSub colors

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:32:41PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le decadi 10 brumaire, an CCXVI, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> > No, but it embeds the .idx file which can contain the palette that
> > specifies the colours.
> 
> Thanks. That did the trick. In my particular case, I have found that the
> relevant entries are the #12, #13 and #14 (starting at #0).
> 
> The .idx file was generated by mencoder. Is it normal that it does not dump
> the palette as well?

Yes, since it also dumps the .ifo which AFAIK contains the palette, so
MPlayer itself does not need it.

> Another question: is there a documentation where I could have found it by
> myself?

The best a quick google showed me is
http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/subtitles/images.html
but that wouldn't really be useful to the average user.
I am not a good source for end-user documentation though, looking at the source
usually is the quicker way to get accurate information for me ;-)
If you used mkvmerge (or actually no matter which program you used to
mux them) you might suggest to them that they add a warning if the idx
contains no palette...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger