is there a video player that does this?

[chronnoz]

I'm looking for a fully equivalent to media player classic in linux. i need a player with the option (i think it's called letterboxing) to display subtitles over the black borders of the movie, not only within the height of the movie. also i need it to auto-load subtitles with the same name of the movie. I have a tv i use with tv-out, so i also need the option to display at fullscreen on secondary display; i also a have a remote infrared control, so i need it to support commands like VK_SPACE (for pausing) to be able to use the remote control; and finally i also need the option to normalize volume.

is there a video player in linux wich does these things?

[redwudz]

You could try VLC. I don't know if it will do what you want, but it's very versatile and has a lot of options. But someone here may have a more specific recommendation.

[buzzqw]

or smplayer
but it's to try , maybe don't have all options you need

BHH

[chronnoz]

neither of them have these options

[lordsmurf]

Maybe GOM ?

[chronnoz]

isn't that for windows? in their web page says
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista
..

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html

[disturbed1]

neither of them have these options

Mplayer and VLC do have those options. Take a look at the configuration. I know for a fact VLC will display on a secondary screen, map shorcuts to whatever you want, and place subtitles where you want. Mplayer is more capable than VLC, so I'd assume it can do all of the above, plus more.

Try reading the man pages, help docs, wiki sites, or home page of each project.
Go here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
check out Interfaces, Infrared? Check

You can force the subtitle position - CTRL-S (for preferences) enable advanced, expand Video, check out the options for subtitles.

Nothing special needs to be done to auto load subtitle files, as long as they have the same name as the movie. For example, dumbmovie.avi dumbmovie.srt <- this will auto load. IThinkIAMSPECAIL.avi ithinkiamspecial.srt <- will not auto load

If you use Framebuffer, OpenGL(GLX), X11, or XVideo as the video renderer you can specify the display number also from preferences.

Also in the preferences, Audio, Filters, check normalize.


Honestly, did you even take a look at the options for VLC?

http://wiki.videolan.org/Main_Page

[chronnoz]

yes, and i even asked at the forums but it can't display subtitles over the black borders of the movies, it can only add more black borders and display subs over these black borders you added

and isn't smplayer a gui for mplayer?

[disturbed1]

yes, and i even asked at the forums but it can't display subtitles over the black borders of the movies, it can only add more black borders and display subs over these black borders you added

That's strange. On my TV, the subs are overlayed on top of the movie, which I can position up or down. Perhaps it has to do with having a 16:9 TV, component out put, and watching 16:9 content? I can recall a few years ago when subs would show up below the movie on my SD TV when watching 16:9 content.

and isn't smplayer a gui for mplayer?

Yes. Mplayer also has it's own gui, it's just smplayer looks/works nicer to some people. Besides VLC and Mplayer, there is also the xine engine. Kaffeine is a nice GUI for xine. But.... not I'm claiming xine supports anything you want to do, as I haven't attempted to use it for TV out viewing. Since you can't get VLC's options to work, perhaps Xine has something for you

Taking a quick peek at the xine subtitle options, it does have vertical offset, but so does VLC