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Using VLC 0.8.6h Janus (Intel) on Mac OS X 10.4.11, when I manually edit the vlcrc file by putting in the line freetype-color=0xFFFF99 then VLC correctly displays the subtitles in pale yellow (my preferred color). But whenever I go to Preferences / Video / Subtitles/OSD / Text renderer, the Text def...

I must admit that I completely agree: the ability to display subtitles in the letterbox area should become a priority. I work for a software company and I know that it should be possible to write code that expands the "active" video area to any format. If there is a crop filter, there shou...