[vlc-devel] [RFC] vout: subtitles outside the video area in direct3d9

[Salah-Eddin Shaban]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Salah-Eddin Shaban <salah at videolan.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>
> Hi,
>
>> I don't think this is the correct way to do it.
>> I believe it should work like video-title-position option and have a
>> link to sub-margin.
>>
>> Finally, the video output should report to the core whether it is
>> capable of doing it or not and then it should be linked with the
>> placement.
>>
>
> Yes, that's what the flag is for
>
> info.scale_spu_to_display = true;
>
> Placement options should still work. They will now be relative to the
> whole display instead of being restricted to video borders.
>
> I will test to make sure.

I have just tested, and the placement options (video-title-position
and sub-margin) work as expected.

The range of sub-margin is the entire height of the display (including
the video).

If the flag name should be changed please tell me what you would like it to be.