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

Feature requests for VLC.
mike18xx
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 47
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 05:09

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

Postby mike18xx » 23 Dec 2012 21:28

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.
Last edited by mike18xx on 23 Dec 2012 21:39, edited 2 times in total.

mike18xx
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 47
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 05:09

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

Postby mike18xx » 23 Dec 2012 21:33

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
New Cone
New Cone
Posts: 8
Joined: 31 Dec 2012 05:06
VLC version: 2.04
Operating System: Linux

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

Postby amethyst_igor » 01 Jan 2013 08:39

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:

Image

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.
My desktop runs 64-bit Linux Mint Maya Xfce, my htpc runs Linux Mint Nadia Xfce, my answering machine runs Windows 7, and my laptop runs 64-bit Linux Mint Maya Mate.
Image

Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Site Administrator
Site Administrator
Posts: 37523
Joined: 22 Jul 2005 15:29
VLC version: 4.0.0-git
Operating System: Linux, Windows, Mac
Location: Cone, France
Contact:

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

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 03 Jan 2013 02:12

You can already do that with a VLC extension.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/ - http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/category/Videolan
VLC media player developer, VideoLAN President and Sites administrator
If you want an answer to your question, just be specific and precise. Don't use Private Messages.


Return to “VLC media player Feature Requests”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 13 guests