TTF (True-Type) subtitle and GUI/Skin fonts

[zilvershadow]

i would like to have the ability to chose between mplayer and true-type fonds (same in xbmp.)
(there seems to be alot of changes in the video-screen.)
i liked the osd alot from xbmp.

thank you!

greets,
zilvershadow

[Frodo]

truetype subs?
tell me why?

osd from xbmp ? well i'm still thinking about the osd so who knows

frodo

[zilvershadow]

truetype subs are much clearer than the mplayer subs: they look very good but are transparent, which is annoying in bright scenes of the movie. it is very hard to read the subs then.
maybe there is an option in mplayer to set this but i dont know about that.

forget about the osd. my main point is about the subs.

greets,
zilvershadow

[DayWalker]

hi,

i'm not really sure wether or not you are planning to implement this, so i tought i'd ask... :lol:

what would be really great is changing the subtitles color, size, type (arial, times new roman, courier,...) all from within the gui...

i do not know if this would actually be possible with the mplayer subs so maybe using the ttf fonts like in xbmp...
but this would truly be an awesome addition to this allready very fast developing and great media center.

greetzzzz
daywalker

[kenghua]

Originally Posted by (frodo @ oct. 03 2003,17:14)

truetype subs?
tell me why?

osd from xbmp ? well i'm still thinking about the osd so who knows

frodo

1. asia mplayer font (like chinese) file size may over 27mb (in size 28).
2. when the font size over 27mb, xbox only free 1mb ram during playing movie, and it will be crash.
3. asia font must be over size 28, or it hard to identify on tv.

[lumchen]

i totaly agree with kenghua, also we can easily get chinese ttf font from anywhere.

robin

[Gamester17]

i too think ttf will be very important in the future (even though i won't need/use them myself) but it's not a top priority

[Gamester17]

btw, another reason where ttf fonts is important is skinning, as xpr fonts do not look good in high res hdtv skins, see here (link)

[VoDa]

hello
firsttime i must apologize for my horrible english...
i have problem with smb... its too slow than xns in xbmp
and xns working fine without any problems in xbmp... in xbmc not working and samba is unusefull because i waiting for launching one movie maybe 20-30sec... and music folder loading maybe 5-8sec and if i want back from subfolders to music folder back i waiting too...
substitles is too small in 28 size... usually i using ttf subs in size 32 in xbmp and it much better too...
please who can implement it to xbmc too
thanks too much voda :d

[kenghua]

people still use xbmp in asia (taiwan, china, japan, korea, thailand...) long time, because they can't watch movie with local subtitle when running xbmc.
xbmc has a lot of pleasant and strong functions, like as pass-through, but we can't enjoy it.

why don't we use mplayer raw-fonts?
1. asia mplayer font (like chinese) file size may over 27mb (in size 28).
2. when the font size over 27mb, xbox only free 1mb ram during playing movie, and it will be crash.
3. asia font must be over size 28, or it hard to identify on tv.

the latest xbmp cvs also have some bug when ttf enable:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker....=508678

what we can do? still use old xbmp and waiting?
most persons in asia think the xbmc totally useless for them, even it release so many greatest functions every day.
why? they can't watch no translated subtitle hollywood movie!
please...develops the xbmc ttf-support soon, we'll be moved to tears of gratitude!