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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[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.

Being a fansubber, mplayers support for .ass subtitles is awesome. I can preview karaoke effects or stylisations easily. Another AWESOME feature, probably the msot sueful to me, is being able to load mplayer filters, most of which are fairly similar to what avisynth has. As an encoder, the only reason I have windows installed, admitedly in vbox, is for avisynth. Mplayer allows me to test an encode with filters much quicker than in avisynth, plus if a group puts out a shitty episode, I can always touch it up.

That said, matroska is the devil and everyone should use mp4 \o/