how to make subtitles draw on 'black band' under gmplayer

[phyrster <phyrster@gmail.com>]

Hi debianers, 

I am using gmplayer to play avi format movies that come with subtitles.
However, when I play the movie, the subtitles are drawn directly the
picture and hinder the view of the picture. 

My question is how to configure mplayer to make it draw subtitles (both .sub
and .srt) on the 'black band' of widescreen avi movies?

In mplayer's man page, I found this:

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       expand[=w:h:x:y:o]
              Expands  (not  scales)  movie  resolution to the given value and
              places the unscaled original at coordinates x, y.  Can  be  used
              for placing subtitles/OSD in the resulting black bands.

                 <w>,<h>
                      Expanded  width,height (default: original width,height).
                      Negative values for w and h are treated  as  offsets  to
                      the original size.

                      EXAMPLE:
                           expand=0:-50:0:0
                                  Adds  a 50 pixel border to the bottom of the
                                  picture.

                 <x>,<y>
                      position of original image on the  expanded  image  (de‐
                      fault: center)

                 <o>  OSD/subtitle rendering
                         0: disable (default)
                         1: enable

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and configured my .mplayer/config like this:

expand=0:-950:0:0:1


Frankly, I don't quite sure what these parameters are doing and I just add a
very large number to see the difference. But I didn't notice any differece. 

Could anyone help with this? 


regards

bxuef

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