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date Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:48:09 +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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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 bellow)
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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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29 some usefull URLs:
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30 ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ - ISO fonts, OBSOLETED!
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31 ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/ - various fonts by users
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32 http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer - korean fonts & RAW plugin
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34 After that, UNZIP the files to ~/.mplayer/font/
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35 Now you have to see a clock at the upper left corner of the movie
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36 (switch it off with 'o')
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38 OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')
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39 - clock + volume bar + seek bar + sub (default)
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40 - volume bar + seek bar + sub
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41 - only sub
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43 You can change default behaviour by setting osdlevel= variable in config file.