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sobel
17th May 2004, 18:55
Hi. Anyone know of players or tools that can move picture area up on screen while playing a wide-screen DivX/XviD movie with removable subtitles? Normally movie players put the picture area in the middle of screen vertically leaving equal dark area at top and bottom of screen. Is it possible to decrease the top and increase the bottom dark area so that the subtitles can be over the bottom dark area instead of the picture area. Some movies have small bottom dark area for subtitles so the subtitles are placed over the picture. But if the picture area could be shifted up to the top of screen then it would be better. I normally use mplayer2.exe and ffdshow and vobsub on WinXP to play movies. Any idea, suggestion would be appreciated. Cheers.

DAvenger
17th May 2004, 22:00
Enable "Extended overlay" in VSFilter (VobSub), then (if needed) change the vertical coordinates.

Shifting the video up would not help as the subtitles are painted into the video.

echo
21st May 2004, 01:48
Hmmm... mplayer can do that! Just use
mplayer -vf expand 0:-100:0:0 movie.avi
and you will add 100 pixels below the movie. I suppose you are not on Linux but the windows version should work fine. Get it from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre4.zip