Re: [xine-devel] Could someone please fix subtitles?

[James S. <jr...@ja...>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Ken Arromdee wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > > If a DVD is anamorphic and also has subtitles, the subtitles get squeezed as
> > > if they're part of the anamorphic picture.  This has made several anime DVDs
> > > such as Noir and .hack unwatchable for me.  It's been happening for a long
> > > time and still happens in the most recent version of Xine.
> > DVD subtitles are graphic images of the same resolution as the Video.
> > If the DVD is anamorphic, then the subtitles should also be formatted
> > for anamorphic.
>
> Have you tried it yourself, comparing the way the subtitles are formatted on
> a real DVD player to Xine?  Xine shows them differently from every DVD player
> I've tried.

I have tried Noir (R1, volume 1) on both xine and a standalone DVD player
(Pioneer DV-350).

When the DVD player is configured for 16:9 output, the subtitle rendering
is identical to xine:

http://janx.org/noir_normal.png

When the DVD player is configured for 4:3 output (either letterbox or
pan&scan - makes no difference for this DVD), the video is squashed
vertically, but the subtitles are not.

A similar (but not identical - xine does not reduce the resolution of the
video) effect can be acheived with xine's 'expand' plugin, with automatic
overlay shifting enabled:

http://janx.org/noir_expand.png



I think that xine's behaviour is correct. Try using the expand plugin.



James