Substitles -- LOT of work still needs to be done!

[mike18xx]

Starters, kudos on the drop-down listings -- sorely needed, and therefore thank you.

On to very delayed business: see the [u][b][url=viewtopic.php?f=7&t=43034&p=290677#p277368]following thread[/url][/b][/u] for background.

1) Still no ability to force a language preference. I.e., if a TV series arc contains both Japanese and English subs, and the Japanese ones were marked "default" in muxing by the creator, I must laboriously run through the menus to manually select English for each and every episode each and every time I watch it. Obviously this becomes tedious.

2) "Smaller Small Normal Large Larger" is a very obsolescent set of choices for Tools/Preferences/Subtitles. For instance, it will not help you at all in the following situation:

[img]http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/4604 ... ingboy.jpg[/img]

Context: Win7, core2, no codecs other than VLC-contained, version 2.04 Twoflower.

Manually changing size/color in prefs had no effect on this soft subtitle, which, according to MKVmergeGUI, is an SSA file muxed into MPEG4/ISO/AVC video.

I've been told that the stuff above plays fine on MPC+CCCP, but I despise having to install multiple sets of junk to play, which is why I prefer VLC in the first place.

-- The ability to EASILY manually force a default font/size/color combo of my choice would override all of this monkey-business. (I like Bookman/Italic/cream yellow/size14 on my 13" laptop.)

Ideally, this preference should be....

a. user-specific by default
b. include the ability to save multiple sets of preferences
c. be exportable/importable to/from a file.
d. bonus awesomeness: checkbox for subtitle size autoscaling as the display is zoomed. ("Ding! Ding! We have a winner...")

Lastly, there are inches of unused space on the "button bar" of the main video display -- please put a button there which leads directly to subtitles.

[mike18xx]

OT: the IMG and URL BBcodes appear to not be working on the forums today...? (They're all listed as "on", but they're not working on either of my browsers.)

[amethyst_igor]

Starters, kudos on the drop-down listings -- sorely needed, and therefore thank you.

On to very delayed business: see the following thread for background.

1) Still no ability to force a language preference. I.e., if a TV series arc contains both Japanese and English subs, and the Japanese ones were marked "default" in muxing by the creator, I must laboriously run through the menus to manually select English for each and every episode each and every time I watch it. Obviously this becomes tedious.

2) "Smaller Small Normal Large Larger" is a very obsolescent set of choices for Tools/Preferences/Subtitles. For instance, it will not help you at all in the following situation:



Context: Win7, core2, no codecs other than VLC-contained, version 2.04 Twoflower.

Manually changing size/color in prefs had no effect on this soft subtitle, which, according to MKVmergeGUI, is an SSA file muxed into MPEG4/ISO/AVC video.

I've been told that the stuff above plays fine on MPC+CCCP, but I despise having to install multiple sets of junk to play, which is why I prefer VLC in the first place.

-- The ability to EASILY manually force a default font/size/color combo of my choice would override all of this monkey-business. (I like Bookman/Italic/cream yellow/size14 on my 13" laptop.)

Ideally, this preference should be....

a. user-specific by default
b. include the ability to save multiple sets of preferences
c. be exportable/importable to/from a file.
d. bonus awesomeness: checkbox for subtitle size autoscaling as the display is zoomed. ("Ding! Ding! We have a winner...")

Lastly, there are inches of unused space on the "button bar" of the main video display -- please put a button there which leads directly to subtitles.

One of the few aspects where SMPlayer is better than VLC is subtitles. SMPlayer has a feature where it will find subtitles, download them, and install them for a given movie. It checks some open source web site on the fly. That is pretty neat. It would be tremendous if VLC added that feature. I think it would really raise eyebrows among reviewers--and steal SMPlayer's thunder.

Of course SMPlayer was trying to cash in on adware last time I checked in with them so they're not necessarily a model in other respects.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You can already do that with a VLC extension.