Opaque subtitle mplayer (remove subtitles transparency when i play an mkv, ogm ...) ?

[Shinobu]

hello i'm starting to use mplayer for some preview function in a future soft bug i haven't found any way to set up the subtitle as opaque, there's always a transparency (ssa,srt, sub...), i've tried several setting of the sub-alpha but it doesn't seem to be any use .....

if you have any way to do it:thanks:

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[Shinobu]

noone kown how to get just white sutitle with a black border and NO transparency ?

i've tried -sub-bg-color and -sub-bg-alpha with change nothing (str, sub, ans ssa), i just want to remove that realy anoying subtitle transparency.

please help ...

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[rvm]

Maybe the -ass option could help you.

This is how it looks like with that option:
http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/fd8770b1e6.jpg

[Shinobu]

thanks but with the ass option a got the same transparency problem...
couls you please post your full comment line ? so i could test it.
thanks.

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[rvm]

Just simply: mplayer video.mkv -ass

It seems to work well with mkv videos with ssa/ass subtitles, but yes, it gives some transparency with srt/sub subtitles.

I read in the mplayer-users list that this could be fixed by using a newer freetype library.

[Shinobu]

where can i find such a library ? thanks

[rvm]

Mmm, what OS are you using?

Freetype (http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html)
Freetype for windows (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/freetype.htm)

But I think you'll have to compile mplayer.

I'd suggest you to ask first in mplayer-users list, maybe there's a recent version of mplayer with this problem fixed or a binary already compiled with a recent version of freetype (I haven't found any which works well in Windows, in fact all mplayer svn binaries that I tried crash with the -ass option).

[celtic_druid]

Here I get (loading a ttf) solid white text with a not so solid black outline. With ass I get solid yellow text with a much more solid black outline.
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/4328/mplayer10lr.png
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/5712/mplayer28go.png

Looks ok to me.

[Shinobu]

with ass or str subfile i get this (with or without -ssa option) (i've tried several revision of mplayer...):
http://yatoshi.com/mplayer210.jpg


in comparaison the same file player with mpc:
http://yatoshi.com/mpc210.jpg


could you please post your full command line i may mistake something ....


thanks.

[celtic_druid]

No commandline options. I used the config file to set everything.

Nothing really in there though that makes any difference, basically just:
font="H:\winnt\fonts\HelveticaNeueBd.ttf"
subfont-text-scale="3.5"

[Shinobu]

i add a specifc font selection and scale as celtic druid but the tranparancy is alway here ....

i have the same bug with .sub (vobsub) subtitle ....
any idea ?

thanks

[celtic_druid]

VOBSubs have the same effect here, but then VOBSub's never looked that good to me. Interestingly the same vobsub's weren't transparent with -vo gl2. Can't remember what they look like under linux.

[Shinobu]

i"m under winxp ....

[Shinobu]

-vo gl2 slove all the transparancy bugs for mplayer, but now i want to encode what i'm seeing, and there's no gl2 option in mencoder, and then the transparency is back T_T...

any way/idea to encode without the transparency with mencoder (like when i use mplayer -vo gl2) ?

thanks again.

[Shinobu]

no one ?