Re: [xine-user] How can I control the subtitle fonts and colors?

[Derrik P. <dp...@ds...>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, J=F6rg Lippmann wrote:

> Xine v0.4.3 runs almost perfectly on my box. The only thing I'm not happy
> with is the font of the subtitle. It looks like white with a white border=
,
> which is quite unreadable. It would also be nice to control the size of t=
he
> letters. Is is possible?

Are you playing back DVDs? If so, the answer to the part about fonts is
"no" - DVDs don't store the subtitle data as text, but as
run-length-encoded bitmaps. The answer to the latter part, about the
colors, is "not really" - the colormap is encoded in the SPU stream
(subpicture data). You _can_ hack the source and change the colors
manually, but since each DVD uses the colors a bit differently, you'd have
to tweak the source for each DVD you want to watch.

DivX ;-) AVIs may be a different story - I've been given to understand
that the subtitles in these video streams are in a text format, so this
_may_ be changeable, but I'm not sure how.

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