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added demuxer->seekable flag to generalize seeking ability test
author arpi
date Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:42:37 +0000
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1 SUBTITLES
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2 ---------
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3 Yes, mplayer also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently (2001/06/01)
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4 7 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are
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5 these subtitle formats, see subreader.c, line ~20.
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7 Subtitles are displayed with a technique called 'OSD', On Screen Display.
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8 OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc.
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11 INSTALLING OSD and SUB
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12 ----------------------
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14 You need an mplayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
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15 There are many ways to get it:
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17 1. use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c
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18 It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg.
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19 (read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)
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21 2. use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP
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22 (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)
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24 3. download ready-to-use font packages from mplayer site.
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25 Note: currently available fonts are only for limited iso 8859-1/2 support,
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26 and there is a few special version for korean, russian etc codepages.
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27 You'd better building font yourself with tool mentioned above.
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28 Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
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29 positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution
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30 is to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use -utf8 option
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31 or just name the subtitles file <video_name>.utf and have it in the same
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32 dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to utf8 could be
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33 done by using konwert (debian) or iconv (RedHat) programs.
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36 some usefull URLs:
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37 ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ - ISO fonts, OBSOLETED!
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38 ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/ - various fonts by users
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39 http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer - korean fonts & RAW plugin
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40
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41 After that, UNZIP the files to ~/.mplayer/font/
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42 Now you have to see a clock at the upper left corner of the movie
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43 (switch it off with 'o')
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45 OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')
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46 - clock + volume bar + seek bar + sub (default)
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47 - volume bar + seek bar + sub
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48 - only sub
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50 You can change default behaviour by setting osdlevel= variable in config file.