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Hey everyone,

I'm on Mountain Lion DP4, and I am unable to change subtitle font via the preferences dialog, is anyone having the same problem or is it just me?

Any workaround?

Btw, I'm using a nightly build of VLC 2.1, 2.0.1 had the same problem on mountain lion...

Thanks in advance.

Does your issue happen only on OS X 10.8?
What type of subtitles? SubRip(srt)? SSA/ASS?
Can you provide the logs?

I'm on Mountain Lion DP4, and I am unable to change subtitle font via the preferences dialog, is anyone having the same problem or is it just me?

First of all, we don't support unpublished operating systems. We didn't in the past and we won't in the future.

Anyway, what's blocking you from changing the font? Does the font panel fail to appear? what's wrong?

Does your issue happen only on OS X 10.8?
What type of subtitles? SubRip(srt)? SSA/ASS?
Can you provide the logs?

I don't know, I didn't use VLC back then. I can provide the logs, but the things is, the subtitles do appear, i'm just unable to change the font. I'm stuck on Arial Unicode MS.

First of all, we don't support unpublished operating systems. We didn't in the past and we won't in the future.

Anyway, what's blocking you from changing the font? Does the font panel fail to appear? what's wrong?

I understand that, still, I believe unpublished OS that are available to developers are supposed to help developers fix its bugs, so that when it comes out it's all good.

The font panel appears as supposed, but no matter what font I pick from the font panel, nothing changes, not even where it says the choosen font. I tried manually changing the vlcrc file, without success...

The font panel appears as supposed, but no matter what font I pick from the font panel, nothing changes, not even where it says the choosen font. I tried manually changing the vlcrc file, without success...

I didn't read your first post well...
Also on 10.7, a similar issue, I could not change font from the font panel, sometimes happened.
At that time, I deleted all files (vlcrc, *.plist, preference folders) using AppCleaner.

I didn't read your first post well...
Also on 10.7, a similar issue, I could not change font from the font panel, sometimes happened.
At that time, I deleted all files (vlcrc, *.plist, preference folders) using AppCleaner.

Well, did that work for you? I just tried, though with CleanMyMac, and nothing changed, problem still persists.

That worked for me, probably. But I'm not sure because I don't have this issue recently.
IIRC, this issue happened about the end of last month on my own custom builds (always updating to the latest git repository).

That worked for me, probably. But I'm not sure because I don't have this issue recently.
IIRC, this issue happened about the end of last month on my own custom builds (always updating to the latest git repository).

Already tried that too... But to no help...

I will investigate that during the weekend - we scheduled an updated specifically for Mountain Lion anyway

I will investigate that during the weekend - we scheduled an updated specifically for Mountain Lion anyway

That's really nice to hear.

PS: btw, kudos on the mac version, really awesome, the only reason I'm not using only vlc as of now is this subtitle thing...

Hey, Felix, just to make your work a little easier, I found what's causing the bug. I'm a designer, so I FontExplorer X Pro to manage my fonts, and Arial Unicode MS was not active, and even if I activate it through fontexplorer nothing changes. However, I tried to close it, activate the font through Font Book and everything went fine and I am now able to change the subtitle font. Hope this helps you to fix the bug. You should set the default font for some system one, like Lucida Grande or something, that would solve the problem, I guess...

Thanks for the support, anyway.