Subtitle size & font can't be changed

rumplestiltskin · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Location: United States

v0.0.9uR2 with proper binaries.
OSX 10.4.3 on dual-CPU G5

No matter what font or size I choose, looks like Arial, size 0(?) always comes up in the encoded file.

I think it worked properly in a previous version.

suggestions welcomed.

thanks.

major · Forum Admin Joined: 12 May 2001

Encoding to which format?

rumplestiltskin · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Location: United States

I've tried both the XviD settings.

I've found that using settings that do not permit altering the location of the subtitles results in no subtitle at all. (This latter "issue" is not part of this immediate problem.)

Thanks.

BeardFan · Member Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Germany

This seems to be a problem with the mencoder binaries. I think the last binary that worked was the one that came with 0.0.9s. You can use it with 0.0.9u (that's what I do), but of course you'll lose the h264 capabilities of the later mencoder binaries.

rumplestiltskin · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Location: United States

rumplestiltskin · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Location: United States

BeardFan,

Thanks again for the advice re: swapping out mencoder for the older version. That did the trick allowing me to embed the subs at the larger size in an XviD (at the same pixel size as the original). Then I swapped out the mencoder for the "proper" one and did the H264 for iPod encoding (reducing the video down to the proper 320 x ### size. Perfect.

SeijoKoibito · Member Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Location: United States

I've been having major problems with this, as well.

However, I can't seem to be able to find either the 0.0.9s or u versions, or the binaries (I've been looking for more than 2 hours, now). I have tracked down a list of files on sourceforge, but I do not know which ones are the ones that work the subtitles properly.
Can somebody please provide links to the archived versions of both ffmpegx and the binaries, so I can attempt to get the subtitles to burn in a readable fashion.

--Thanks

rumplestiltskin · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Location: United States

.9s mencoder may be found here

http://www.themacguy.info/mencoder(9s).zip

Unzip it and drop it into MacHD/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/

Don't lose the .9x version. When you launch ffmpegX (you can continue to use the latest app), you'll be prompted to install the proper mencoder; ignore this. Now you may set the font, size, and placement of subtitles.

I set colored labels for the two mencoder versions (red & blue, for example) and I keep two properly labeled folders so I know which one I'm using and which one is "in storage", so to speak.

SeijoKoibito · Member Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Location: United States

Thanks very much. That does work (though for some reason ffmpegx keeps freaking out on the binary that isn't being used and even though it's supposed to be the one used with this version, it keeps insisting I "find" it -- no matter, since it isn't actually called).
I did use the method of swapping you suggested, color the two folders and the binaries (red and yellow for me) and then just grab all of the same color, stick them in their folder, and then pull the alternates out of theirs. Clumsy, but it works.

Anyone know how to prod major into making this a permanent d/l option, at least until they correct this problem in the binaries? I can't be the only person who's having this problem... (and if someone hadn't e-mailed me a copy of the old "s" version of ffmpegx, I would still be stuck, since the only problem with the binaries I had was which of the archived versions to select).

Thanks again!

rumplestiltskin · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Location: United States

You actually only need to swap out the mencoder file; the others are common.

SeijoKoibito · Member Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Location: United States