[MPlayer-users] External Subtitles and -ass options

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Kevin DeKorte<kdekorte at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using some external subtitles and the -ass options like -ass-color
> don't seem to take effect unless I add -subcp to the command line as well.
>
> I'm using SVN from yesterday.
>
> Example
>
> mplayer -ass -ass-color BB001100 -subcp enca \[AHQ\]\ Rurouni\ Kenshin\
> - -\ 81\ -\ Conspiracy\ Of\ The\ Beni-aoi.ogm
>
> Subtitle is autoloaded and is a deep red
>
> mplayer -ass -ass-color BB001100 \[AHQ\]\ Rurouni\ Kenshin\ -\ 81\ -\
> Conspiracy\ Of\ The\ Beni-aoi.ogm
>
> Subtitle is autoloaded and is white

Because -ass-color and similar options are only applied to unstyled
subs. In this case, there is no encoding called "enca", libass fails
to parse the subtitle, then it is parsed by subreader (probably by
falling back to UTF-8), and picked up by libass as a plaintext
subtitle.