Hi there! One more little thing: When we rip a movie, black bars are often removed from the top and the bottom of the original picture. This is OK, but it means that the aspect ratio of the movie is changed. ON the other side, when we dump a VOBsub subtitle, no cropping takes place, so it's aspect rate will match the original (un-cropped) movie's. So, when we display a subtitle with the cropped movie, and rescale the vobsub's frame to match the movie's sizes, we are distorting the subtitle's aspect ratio. (Typically, we get shorter letters.) This makes reading the text harder. * * * So, I added the option "-spu-keep-aspect". If it is switched on, the VOBsub's original aspect ratio is used to display it. If it's off (default), the aspect ratio of the movie is applied to the subtitles. See the attached patch. (I updated the man page, too.) (Note: this patch depends on the following two pending patches of mine: a0_positioning-fix-and-cleanup.patch, a1_scaling.patch) I uploaded a sample file here: http://rht.bme.hu/~lunkwill/computer/mplayer/aspect-demo.mkv The default "mplayer -slang eng aspect-demo.mkv" gives this: http://rht.bme.hu/~lunkwill/computer/mplayer/without-keep-aspect.png "mplayer -slang eng aspect-demo.mkv -spu-keep-aspect" gives this: http://rht.bme.hu/~lunkwill/computer/mplayer/with-keep-aspect.png * * * What do you think? IMHO the subtitles look much better this way. Shouldn't this be the default behavior? -- Csillag Kristof <fenwick@freemail.hu>