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I've found that both SRT and SSA subtitle lines which are wider than the screen don't wrap properly. They just overlap themselves when they hit the edge.

Any plans to fix this? Or do I just have a setting set wrong? The SSA files usually have smart wrapping turned on in their script info section.

OS X 10.3.4 VLC .80 test1

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this would be easy to fix

if (rendered-sub-width > screen-width) {
breakline();
}

You can work around this by adjusting the text rendering size. If you go to the Preferences/Modules/text renderer/freetype, you can change the Font Size in Pixels. I've found that 25 pixels is a pretty ideal size for 4x3 video. YMMV.

Guest: Thanks for your good ideas. I don't think I'd ever think of that. Next time take a peek at freetype.c before you say anything is easy

I've checked almost every post regarding the text wrapping issue but just can't seem to find the real answer.
I did try changing the pixel font size which did help a little but certain lines are just too long and still overlapping.
Why is it that there is only one line?! Sometimes I would use MPlayer (I do prefer VLC )and it would display more than just one line for the same file. I am not criticizing your product, it is my ignorance that really bothers me.

Please help.

OS X
VLC 0.7.2
OGM files

it's a long standing issue, it's just that the text rendering code in vlc is really quite ugly, and noone has got the inspiration to try fixing it.

ok, I guess we gonna have to wait for the next realease of vlc then. pls pls have this fixed. Keep up the great job!

and thx for the prompt answer

Adjusting the text rendering size seems to help the problem somewhat, so now it is not as pronounced. Still, I hope this will be addressed in the next release, because VLC is the only player I use.

I saw the line of code above that was suggested by Guest, is there a way to implement that into the binary?