[MEncoder-users] Understanding how to increase the size of subs

[David H. Trang]

Thanks for the replies guys but I guess I need a bit more information from
you guys, are you using mencoder in Windows? Because I'm using mencoder on a
MAC OSX and I don't have a directory that contains a .patch file, all I have
is the executable code.

And when you said use mplayer as the input for mencoder what do you mean by
that? How would my command line change? I'm kind of new at this, don't know
what named pipe (FIFO) means.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Phil Ehrens <phil at slug.org> wrote:

> David H. Trang wrote:
> > I have a mkv file and I do a -sid 0 to use the sub, but the sub is very
> > small I use this command:
> >
> > ./mencoder ~/Movies/5_Centimeters_Per_Second.mkv -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid
> > -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=800 -alang jpn -sid 0 -subfont-text-scale 10
> -v
> > -o 5movie.avi
> >
> > Why do the size of the sub not increase?
>
> Because mencoder has poor subtitle support. Use mplayer as
> the input for mencoder (or ffmpeg) via a named pipe (FIFO)
> if you want to do hardsubs. Then you can tell mplayer to
> treat the subtitles as '-ass' and use '--ass_font_scale'
> and the other ASS options to tweak the sub parameters.
>
> There is this patch for mencoder to give it ass power:
>
>
> http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smplayer/mplayer-builds/patches/ass_support_for_mencoder.patch
>
> But I don't know whether it works with the current mencoder
> source. Somebody here who knows more about it may speak up.
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