Topic - Mplayer plugin and background of subtitles



Reply to this topic

Topic Starter anonymous - Posted on Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:45:00 AM


Hello,
<br/>
<br/>I have successfully installed mplayer plugin for vdr. I can watch XviD, DivX... movies on my tv screen. There is only one problem. There is annoying black bars behind subtitles when I watch on tv screen using tvout of technotrend premium dvb card. On monitor the background of subtitles is transparent like it should be. Is there some way to configure background of subtitles to be transparent on my tv screen?
<br/>
<br/>If you have full feature dvb card in your system you can play videos through tvout like this way:
<br/>
<br/>mplayer -ao mpegpes:card=2 -vo mpegpes:card=2 /video_folder/video.avi (i have to put card=2 because my primary card is budget card and there is no tvout connector. So you may have to change card=2 to card=1)
<br/>
<br/>On monitor just play like this way:
<br/>
<br/>mplayer /video_folder/video.avi
<br/>
<br/>Oh, and your subtitle file must be in same folder as video file. Like this way:
<br/>
<br/>video.avi &lt;- video file
<br/>video.srt &lt;- subtitle file
<br/>
<br/>-josk

anonymous - Posted on Wednesday, October 19 2005 08:14:00 AM


Ok, this is solved now. My sh file have alpha channel options for subtitles. I changed the value and now it works like it should be.
<br/>
<br/>-sub-bg-alpha &lt;0-255&gt;
<br/> Specify the alpha channel value for subtitles and OSD backgrounds. Big values mean more transparency. The 0 value is an exception and means completly transparent.

anonymous - Posted on Sunday, July 16 2006 09:26:00 PM


hi!
<br/>
<br/>I tried to register twice but it does not recognize my email address, which happens to be valid.
<br/>
<br/>I have two problems that I hope you can provide suggestions:
<br/>
<br/>1) Due to my unfamiliarity with true type fonts, I spent hours finding the path for truetype fonts. I currently use Suse 10.1 OS (final version). I am currently using the truetype fonts that came with the package. When I bring mplayer up using -subcc argument, the captions show up in large fonts. I tried several truetype fonts available with OS to find a smaller font size. The question is how do I either make it smaller or find a smaller font file?
<br/>
<br/>2. I did a make install as real root. Now when I bring up mplayer, it tries to write to /dev/rtc to no success because I just had suse 10.1 installed and during startup, apparently root sets /det/rtc as 600. So is there something in the configure command or YaST2 that will change the permissions to the world? This is a local PC only.
<br/>
<br/>Thanks in advance!