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Dear Developers,

First of all, thanks a lot for all the work on VLC. I have used it with great pleasure for years.

I tried out the new RC and I noticed that with an .avi video and .str subtitle, the subtitles never showed up .

FYI, the film shows as having 3 streams
Type Video
Codec MS MPEG-4 Video v3 (DIV3)
Resolution 512x320
Framerate 25
Format Planar 4:2:0 YUV

Type Audio
Codec MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3 (mpga)
Channels Stereo
Samplerate 48000 Hz
Bitrate 128 kb/s

Type Subtitle
Codec text subtitles with various tags (subt)

I hope you can find what is wrong. I am running OS X 10.6.8 (SL) on a unibody MacBook.

Best wishes,
Oscar

Please share the logs...

It seems to be a problem in the quartztext code:

08-02-12 16:59:16 [0x0-0x5b25b2].org.videolan.vlc[78945] [0x10024aac0] main xml reader error: XML reader not found
08-02-12 16:59:16 [0x0-0x5b25b2].org.videolan.vlc[78945] [0x100203000] main libvlc: Start vlc met standaardinterface. Gebruik 'cvlc' om vlc zonder interface te gebruiken.
08-02-12 16:59:20 [0x0-0x5b25b2].org.videolan.vlc[78945] [0x100a126f0] main subpicture error: Failed to create sub filter 'quartztext'
08-02-12 16:59:20 [0x0-0x5b25b2].org.videolan.vlc[78945] [0x100a126f0] main subpicture error: Failed while trying to append 'quartztext' to filter chain
08-02-12 16:59:20 [0x0-0x5b25b2].org.videolan.vlc[78945] [0x100a126f0] main subpicture error: Failed to create sub source 'quartztext'
08-02-12 16:59:20 [0x0-0x5b25b2].org.videolan.vlc[78945] [0x100a126f0] main subpicture error: Failed while trying to append 'quartztext' to filter chain
08-02-12 17:00:02 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] ([0x0-0x5b25b2].org.videolan.vlc[78945]) Exited: Terminated

There are some subtitle-related bugs in the tracker, but the three collections for 2.0.x do not seem to have this one.

Best wishes,
Oscar

You should use freetype, I think...

Why use Freetype especially when I am on a Mac?

Never mind that. I found the subtitle font renderer settings and when I set it to Freetype2 the subtitles show just fine.

No idea why the CoreText font renderer doesn't work, though...