Subtitle size & font can't be changed

[rumplestiltskin]

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]

Encoding to which format?

[rumplestiltskin]

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]

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]

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.

Thanks for the help. I'll try it for an mpeg4 encode. I wonder if this is something major can rectify or if we just have to wait for the mencoder developers to fix this.

[rumplestiltskin]

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]

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]

.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]

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]

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

[SeijoKoibito]

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

Well, I wanted to be safe and have the program operate as if I had just fresly installed it in that oh-so-distant past (^_^). And though it makes no difference to the subtitle encoding I did, one of the newer binaries isn't recognized properly by ffmpegx, as everytime I launched the program it insisted I install the binary, and when I got past that part, it gave me an error message about it. IIRC it was the mpeg2enc, not mplayer. Though, again, since I wasn't encoding MPEG2, it made no difference, and I'm not going to try to track down why it didn't like it, since, it's really not worth anyone's time to do so.

Cheers!