Stuck with really tiny subtitles

[Cygon]

Hi!

I'm trying to watch a fansub of the 2005 anime "Yukikaze". The subtitles are there, but they are so tiny that an entire line of text ends up becoming a muddy dot below the movie.

The settings under Preferences\Video\Subtitles/OSD\Text renderer are applied to VLC's own text display (eg. the name of the file being played right after playback starts and the volume display while using the mouse wheel), but seem to have no effect on the subtitles at all.

The file in question is a Matroska file that includes its own fonts:

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|+ Attachments | + Attached | + File name: absci.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 46108 | + File UID: 948855177 | + Attached | + File name: Babelfish.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 37528 | + File UID: 2054233258 | + Attached | + File name: DUALITY.TTF | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 49276 | + File UID: 1436654750 | + Attached | + File name: OfficinaSansStd-Book.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 34888 | + File UID: 1383948722 | + Attached | + File name: OfficinaSansStd-BookItalic.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 34908 | + File UID: 1299758743 | + Attached | + File name: OfficinaSerifStd-Bold.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 34524 | + File UID: 2259285395 | + Attached | + File name: OfficinaSerifStd-BoldItalic.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 37340 | + File UID: 2888775855 | + Attached | + File name: OfficinaSerifStd-Book.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 35996 | + File UID: 3565660847 | + Attached | + File name: OfficinaSerifStd-BookItalic.ttf | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 36180 | + File UID: 2610157230 | + Attached | + File name: SLEEP.TTF | + Mime type: application/x-truetype-font | + File data, size: 31288 | + File UID: 3666099375

The subtitle file references these fonts like this:

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[V4+ Styles] Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Encoding Style: Style1,SleepTalk,24,&H00FFFFFF,&H00151C28,&H00000000,&H82000000,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0.00,0.00,1,2.00,2.00,2,30,30,2,0 Style: Title,Duality,26,&H4BFFFFFF,&H4BFFFFFF,&H4B000000,&H4B000000,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0.00,0.00,1,4.00,2.00,2,10,10,10,0 Style: style2,SleepTalk,26,&H00FFFFFF,&H00151C28,&H00000000,&H82000000,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0.00,0.00,1,2.00,2.00,2,30,30,2,0 Style: kickassanime,Duality,20,&H5AFFFFFF,&H5A000000,&H5A000000,&H5A000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0.00,0.00,1,2.00,2.00,9,10,10,10,0 Style: song,Babelfish,26,&H46FFFFFF,&H46000000,&H46000000,&HB4000000,0,0,0,0,90,110,0.00,0.00,1,2.00,2.00,2,10,10,10,0

No idea what's what, but if the third value is the font size, the fonts should display at line heights of 20-26 pixels (which they don't).

Is there anything I could try to get the subtitles displayed?

[Cygon]

Just tested the file with Media Player Classic, subtitles display fine and use the embedded fonts.

I tried re-encoding the file with Mkvtoolnix without the custom fonts, after which VLC displays the text just fine, but the audio goes off sync by about 1 second per 10 minutes movie.