Fansubs on Mac

[nosaj]

Growing frustrated with VLC media player, and its list of what some may call eccentricities (and what I call flaws), I decided to try the other player for Matroska for Mac, MPlayer. Specifically, the handling of embedded softsubs in mkv files has been a perpetual woe for my Mac experience, although I love the machine itself. I had tried MPlayer for

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[ext_2025]

Mplayer has been at 0.99 and 1-RC for years and years. Any sort of GUI for it is an aberration, it's designed to be run from the command line and controlled with the keyboard by savants who have internalised its 8000 line long manpage.

[misterhatt]

Actually, mplayer is a godsend. I don't have trouble dragging folders into the playlist, but then I don't use the playlist often. The biggest way to get mplayer to do what you want, such as encode to x264 via mencoder, is to compile it yourself with whatever options you want. For subs, I find it the best player on linux systems, I'd assume it does a similar job in OSX. There's always BSplayer if you want it I think. Mplayer draws tehsubs nicely in relation to my screen size, and gives a nice overglow

[nosaj]

Maybe I'm not doing it right. I've currently got both VLC and MPlayer so that I may run either depending on my mood, but I'll probably use VLC more often.