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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.

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.)

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.

You can already do that with a VLC extension.