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This is already semi-possible, but not in a general way you'd want. The problem is, as is explained whenever this comes up, is that VLC only knows about the area of the screen that has the picture, and that's its "canvas", it can't paint outside it. Hence, subtitles can only be drawn in th...

Opened, #9544.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9544

Ok, I've been doing some more checking on this, it seems the "line collapsing" thing is something Handbrake might be doing when encoding the mkv file. I'm supplying an .srt file as a subtitles input. When I extract the subtitle stream from the mkv, the lines are actually collapsed, vs the ...

I've done a bit of searching around for this, and haven't found anything similar, so either I am doing something wrong, repeatedly, or other's don't mind/care. Using latest version of VLC, on Windows, with no special settings or other weird uses. This problem is not version specific, I've noticed it...