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Hello,

I wish to take a snapshot of a .mkv video which has soft subtitles, and include the soft subtitles in the shot. So far, I haven't found any way of doing this, so any snapshot I take leaves out the soft subtitles. It happens even when they have been activated and are visible on the screen. The soft subtitles were unintentionally funny, and they are the reason I'm trying to take the snapshot in the first place (I hope to E-mail it to a friend).

My version of VLC Media Player is 0.8.6d.

Is it possible and I'm just missing it, or does my version simply lack the capability?

Thankyou.

Just taking a snapshot won't capture the subtitles since they are not a part of the video layer. You can, for example, change the output module to "OpenGL video output", and that will enable you to take screenshots with the video in it (could then crop the screenshot for example or do a "Alt+Prt Scr" for just the selected window).

To change to OpenGL:
Settings >> Preferences ... >> (Tick "Advanced options") >> Video >> Output modules

Then select "OpenGL video output", press "Save", restart VLC and play the video. Using [Alt+]Prt Scr should then capture the video too.

VLC can stream video with subtitle overlayed usinc soverlay (effectively making them hardcoded in the output), so that is another alternative, however more complicated.

Arite.

Hi,
doesn't anyone know a better solution? If you use the Open GL output the subtitle font changes in normal play and becomes really strange and in my computer the snapshots I make still don't contain subtiles. Using 3Dvix doesn't eiter, but there the font is rounded and better.
Is there no way to make snapshots with subtitle within VLC?
I hope someone can help