Fontconfig and variable-framerate support

[roozhou]

1) Is it possible to build mplayer/mencoder with fontconfig? The current build is unable to hardcode ssa/a s s subtilte.

2) I have many videos in hybrid-fps. They are mixed 24/30fps or 24/60fps muxed in 120fps avi or mkv. If i use mencoder alone in cmdline it produce correct files. But when using mediacoder, it pipes YUV stream from one mencoder to another. In this way timestamp for each frame is lost and the output file plays in wrong speed. Is it possible to use only one mencoder instead of piping from one to another when both "Source" and "Encoder" are set to mencoder?

[SirAuron]

1. I would like to see that, too. That way maybe I would't have to remux subs into various videos I convert.

2. I would guess the piping was done so that better cpu utilization on multiple cores could be archieved.

[roozhou]

Softsubtitle requires much more CPU time especially for 720p+ videos. I have already contacted the author but it seems that he has some problem compiling mplayer/mencoder with fontconfig.

[Petie]

1) Is it possible to build mplayer/mencoder with fontconfig? The current build is unable to hardcode ssa/a s s subtilte.

I could be wrong since I've only tried this once or twice but I'm pretty sure it can hard-code the subtitles. Just specify the .ssa or .a ss file in the subtitle section and it should include them in the transcoding.

[stanley]

I've built mencoder with fontconfig but it crashes when using ***/ssa.

[roozhou]

1) Is it possible to build mplayer/mencoder with fontconfig? The current build is unable to hardcode ssa/a s s subtilte.

I could be wrong since I've only tried this once or twice but I'm pretty sure it can hard-code the subtitles. Just specify the .ssa or .a ss file in the subtitle section and it should include them in the transcoding.

Most ***/ssa subs contains multiple styls. Without fontconfig mencoder can only use one font for all styles.