[MPlayer-advusers] vobsub size gets overridden

[John Stebbins]

I'm adding vobsub in mkv support to HandBrake and have run into this 
"feature".  I'm wondering if it was done to solve a particular problem 
or was just an oversight.  In spudec.c, spudec_new_scaled calls 
spudec_parse_extradata which reads the vobsub size into 
orig_frame_height and orig_frame_width.  Then spudec_new_scaled 
overwrites these values with one of the DVD standard resolutions.  vlc 
does not do this and positions the subtitles where I expect.  The reason 
I ask, is I can do better placement of the subtitles based on the 
information I know about cropping and scaling etc than mplayer could 
without this information.  But it only works if the player pays 
attention to the size I tell it to use as a reference.  Also, I was 
hoping to be able to translate blu-ray subtitles to vobsubs and insert 
them into mkv files.  But it definitely will not work if I can specify a 
high definition reference size for the vobsub.