Do you think it would it make any difference to the volume display if settings were changed under one of the following?Freetype is the font rendering engine used in VLC. Since OSD volume text also uses that, it explains why the volume doesn't show but pause+play show since they pause+play are image files, not text.Would you elaborate on the freetype, please?
Subtitles & OSD- Default encoding
Or
"You can then select the subtitles file by clicking the Browse button. You can also set a few options like character encoding, alignment and size."
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... /Subtitles