Comments on: Quick and dirty: mplayer config file

By: Cheater

Cheater — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:49:01 +0000

This got me thinking: how about fancy subtitles outside the video frame?

I had to add ass=1, ass-use-margins=1 and ass-font-scale=1.5 to the config file.

Getting framebuffer mplayer to do subtitles not overlaid on video while also running fullscreen got quite though, so in the end I had to resort to an script:

#!/bin/bash

vidheight=`mplayer -identify “$1″ -ao null -vo null -frames 0 2>/dev/null|grep HEIGHT|sed s/ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=//`
vidw=`mplayer -identify “$1″ -ao null -vo null -frames 0 2>/dev/null|grep WIDTH|sed s/ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=//`

ratio=`echo “1280/$vidw”|bc -l`

vidheight=`echo “($vidheight*$ratio)/1″|bc`

vidnheight=$((800-$vidheight))
vidnheight=$(($vidnheight/2))

exec mplayer -ass-bottom-margin $vidnheight -ass-top-margin $vidnheight -fs -vf scale=1280:-3 “$1″

By: kolby

kolby — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:22:06 +0000

Hey, the really-quiet option was a life saver when using screen+mplayer, a line of text would bleed in. It stills shows a blinks ‘_’ through the video though when using screen, do you know of anyway around this?

By: mike21091

mike21091 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:34:12 +0000

Thanks for the config! It was quite useful for my EEE pc when using dvtm (Which I learned about on this blog).

PS: I’ve been following this blog for about 2 years and learned quite alot.

By: p0ng

p0ng — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:35:46 +0000

Hi K.Mandla! I’m impressed with the things you do, using old hardware. What I would like to make is how you use them in everyday life. What is the use of them?

Cheers