[MPlayer-dev-eng] Custom subtitle output

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:36:03AM +0200, Gast wrote:
> I would like to ask if it is possible to show the subtitles
> on stdout instead drawing them on the OSD. I'd like to
> use an external liquid crystal display (LCD) to display
> my subtitles (of course using a file descriptor or direct
> access to serial port), but the current vo_* seems not
> to be the right place to do subtitle processing for me.

For text subtitles: look at mplayer.c:set_osd_subtitle.
For bitmap subtitles and pre-rendered text: any video filter
can intercept them, like vf_expand does (or vf_ass for the
ass subs).