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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > v is supposed to toggle subtitle visibility and it does not seem to work.
>
> You may need to use Shift+F to force subtitles on. But in any case you
> need to install fonts first. See below.
>
> > DVD number 3 (dvd://1) would play for about 10 seconds yesterday then give
> > me a black screen.  Same thing happened today.  Ctrl-C exits.  There are
> > two titles.  I discovered this after typing dvd://1-3.  I am now seeing
> > the second part of this DVD.  q is not working here at all, or ESC (in X)
> > or Ctrl-C.
> >
> >
> > Probably the first two DVDs that worked with dvd://1 had just one 'title'.
> >
> > How do I get at the subtitles?  Everything else is now working perfectly
> > and I can if I want skip past the warnings.
>
> You need to install subtitle fonts (I did not include any). Go to the
> downloads section of the MPlayer site <www.mplayerhq.hu> and download
> the appropriate font for the language you are trying to view. The
> Western European package has a README inside which says to copy the
> files from one of the subdirectories (depending on desired size) to
> /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/. There is some more scant information
> at the documentation section of the MPlayer website. Once I installed
> the fonts, the on-screen display started working. I still can't figure
> out how subtitles work. I will try various settings and report back.

Thanks.  Probably it does not make sense to include even an 
English-language font in your package since most people use mplayer only 
for audio, unless it is quite small.

I will wait for you to report back before watching Die Fledermaus.  I can 
handle the Russian cartoons on my own.


> > mplayer says it can work with svgalib but David seems not to have compiled
> > for it.
>
> I don't currently have a development copy of svgalib.

To get a statically compiled program I bet you have to compile svgalib 
too.

> > Would that take less cpu than vesa?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> > It would work with more video cards.
>
> Yes. It may be included with the next version of MPlayer, sometime in the
> distant future.

Thanks.  First dosemu?  (No hurry on either).
Probably most computers fast enough to play DVDs come with newer video 
cards anyway (that do VESA 2.0).


> David
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