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You should add support for Italic and Bold tags in subtitles. Currently, only underline is supported.

EDIT: I can get it to show italic and bold in subtitles only if I use more advanced format (such as .ssa or . a s s, rather than .srt or .sub; but then i can't set the charset so it shows windows-1250 characters properly).

This is a known bug on Windows only.

But I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and I don't see italic and bold. (?)

I solved this by installing mplayer. When I installed it, I could see italics and other srt subtitles formatting in VLC. I guess it's because of one of the mplayer's dependencies.

I have the same problem with VLC 0.9.9 and 1.0.0 on windows

AIE88: which bold and italics tags your subtitle file uses?

It's a srt file with <i></i> tags.

This might be an issue with the default font used by the Windows version of VLC. Some font's won't have official italic and bold versions, sometimes leading to these kinds of weird things. It would help if the subtitle file was online so we could take a look at it in various usage situations.

The bug occur even with a simple subtitle file:

Yes, this does work on Mac OS X. Try selecting a different font in the advanced preferences.

Under Video -> Subtitles/OSD -> Text renderer, you can find the option "font" Try selecting a font on your Windows system that should have Italics support. (I have no idea of a direct example...)

I tried. Doesn't work.

This is arguably one of the weirder bugs we have at the moment. I switched OS X to the freetype renderer as well, and then i can reproduce the problem with italics. Bold is not problem however. The weird thing is that I have certain other files that have no problem using italics. That just doesn't add up.

One more thing - when italics tag isn't closed (</i>), VLC doesn't show italics.

if something is not closed, then it's not valid.

Not in Media Player Classic & GOM, which I used on Windows.

MPC, GOM:

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02.000
<i>This should be in italic
This should be in italic

is shown this way:

This should be in italic
This should be in italic

And this:
1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02.000
<i>This should be in italic</i>
This should be in italic

This way:
This should be in italic
This should be in italic

Not in Media Player Classic & GOM, which I used on Windows.

Irrelevant. I don't (and nor should you) care what other applications do. People should learn to write proper subtitles. If people don't close their formatting run, the behaviour will be undefined.

Agreed with TheDJ.

The bug occur even with a simple subtitle file:

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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:01:00,000 <i>Test Italic</i> Test Normal

Yep, it doesn't work with SRT subtitles but it does work with SUB subtitles (on Windows).
Annoying as hell.

Irrelevant. I don't (and nor should you) care what other applications do. People should learn to write proper subtitles. If people don't close their formatting run, the behaviour will be undefined.

I agree with you, but sometimes I download the subtitles that don't have <i> closed with </i> and then I don't see the italics. Is there a way to add </i> at the end of every subtitle line?

<i>jsalkfjaslkf
ihjgpiejqil

would meen that the

jsalkfjaslkf
ihjgpiejqil

should entire be in italic.

Can you add </i> to every subtitle line that starts with <i>?

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000
<I>example
example

2
00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000
<I>example2</i>
example2

3
00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000
<I>example3
example3

Is there a program that can close all unclosed <i> tags? In this case lines 1 and 3.

Is there a program that can close all unclosed <i> tags? In this case lines 1 and 3.

I don't know where you're getting these defective SRT files, but I made up a little program to close your italics. This program runs from a command prompt in Windows.

Put the program in the folder where your SRT file is and open a Command Prompt to that folder. Type FIXSRT and you'll get a list of SRT files. Type the name of the one you want. You can leave out the .SRT extension if you want. The program is written in DOS and only handles 8.3 filenames, so the name may look odd. For example, "On the Waterfront.srt" may appear as "ONTHEW~1.SRT" Just type ONTHEW~1 for the filename.

It goes through the file and saves the result into FIXED.SRT in the same folder. If any line has an opening <i> tag it closes that at the end of the line and also puts italic tags around any following lines that appear on the same screen.

Get it here: http://www.canadatoyou.com/FIXSRT.EXE

Thank you, but, as I said before, I am using Ubuntu . Can I use this with Wine?

Sorry, I missed the connection that it was you who was talking about Ubuntu. I'm not that familiar with Wine, butI don't see why you couldn't use it with Wine. I think what I would do is to go to a Windows Command Prompt (command.exe or cmd.exe) and run it from there.

I suppose that for Linux, the ideal thing would be to make a Perl script. I assume you have Perl? I'm not so good with Perl, though. I would take me a little time to do that, even though it's a super-simple program. Let me know if it works in Wine. There's nothing tricky about it. It should either work or not.

I tried to do it with Wine, but it doesn't work. It says "Convert which file"? I can't type anything and when I press Enter nothing happens.

The bug occur even with a simple subtitle file:

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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:01:00,000 <i>Test Italic</i> Test Normal

Bump.
This bug is still here in the last version (1.0.2)

Did you try VLC 1.1 ?