Make subtitles look "prettier" when playing from DVD?

[bmnot]

Is there a way to make subtitles look nicer when I play a DVD on my computer? Maybe smooth them out, round the edges or something?

Thanks

[laserfan]

The subtitles are basically bitmap images overlaid on top of the video on your DVDs, like transparencies/slides. Thus "they are what they are". But you can edit them somewhat for color & outline using DVDSubEdit (look up in Subtitles, it's a sticky thread).

You can also completely de-multiplex your DVD and re-do the subtitle track in any way you want, including using a different font altogether, but this is non-trivial to do.

[Reimar]

MPlayer has the -spuaa option that does some kind of blurring/anti-aliasing on the subtitles. I don't like it much, but it might be what you want.