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:
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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.