[MPlayer-users] MPlayer is rendering some ass subtitles with wrong styling

[Diogo Franco]

I have some useful files, like the main fonts used, the scripts and the
mentioned screenshots to send but I don't know where to send them.
My mailer is failing to attach those files, so I'm waiting for some info.

I'm reporting problem with two files in this mail.

Both are extracted from anime releases by Menclave (www.mymenclave.org).

The first one is with Gundam 00 - 01.ass. The color of the subtitles is
different from VSFilter, where subtitles usually get the brown color.
That can be seen on the hardsubbed release. On mplayer, they always get
the blue color, not only when the subtitles are displaced. Than can be
seen on shot0003.png (mplayer) and shot0004.png (hardsub with VSFilter).

Looking at the script, it looks like libass uses only the last style
defined as if it overrides the previous definition; but it appears that
VSFilter uses the first definition as the 'default' one and the second
one as the 'displaced' one. May be a bug, but I think libass should
unfortunately reproduce it in order to keep compatibility.

The second one is with Macross F. The subtitle size and styling is all
wrong with this one. On the screenshots, I have shot0001.png showing
mplayer's output, and shot0002.png showing the hardsub release that is
subbed using VirtualDubMod with the same sources as the softsub one. The
subtitles are also rendered just fine with VSFilter, but I'm not on
Windows so I can't take the screenshots.

>From what I can see in those two Macross screenshots, the problem seems
that libass only renders the subtitle border too thin and doesn't render
the shadow. Also, VSFilter appears to render the subtitles using
PlayRes{X,Y} and then scales them down, or does some other kind of
scaling that looks nice. I just don't understand why on mplayer the
subtitles aren't just big, they're big and stretched horizontally. Note:
csri with libasa renders the subtitle more correctly, see shot0005.png.