Place subtitles *under* the video - possible?

[mangoo]

Is it possible to place subtitles *under* the video? Right now, VLC shows subtitles at the bottom of the video.

I would like it to place the subtitles on the black part of the screen below the video (of course, if the video is in a format where you have some black screen above/below the video).

In mplayer, one could easily achieve it with:

mplayer -vo sdl video.avi


Is there something similar in VLC?

[MadlyMad]

Hi

Go to Prefs\Advanced\Video\Subtitles-OSD\ => put a negative number to "force subtitle position", then save prefs.
Unfortunately you'll have to close and relaunch VLC to see the effects but it should work.

[Arite]

VLC cannot render subtitles outside of the video region, in order to do that there would need to be a complete rework of the video output module, IIRC.

I did do a realtime test by transcoding to another format with video padding (black bars) on the top and bottom, enabling the subtitles to be "below" the video:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=41695#p130174

Arite.