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hello, it would be nice to have a better Font Effect Setting for Subtitles in the freetype2 font renderer. Outline is to thin, Fat Outline to thick and Background to ugly.
I don't know exactly how that's called but if I use MPC Homecinema there's a small shadow below half-right of the text in addition to Outline which makes it very readable.

Here's a comparsion to explain what I mean:



such a feature would be highly apreciated in a newer version.

MPC-HC uses a bold font by default, nothing else.

well, that's simply not true.
of course you have to select a different renderer to display subtitles in the first place (VMR7/9 renderless) and if you do these are the standard options for subtitles:



notice smth like Border width, Shadow depth ...

well, that's simply not true.

Yes it is true.
Click on the font name Arial and you'll see that bold is selected by default and it's been like that since the 'old' Gabest/Guliverkli MPC.
And your outline is black anyway so you just can't see it in the screnshots you have posted.

..., nothing else.

that part isn't true. the font is bold by default in MPC HC but this was never about the font but about everything arround it. Outline (Border, Shadow & Transparency)

I've updated the comparison pic. it has white background now so it should be apparent what i mean.

so what would be nice would be an option to set the border width of Subtitles and to add Shadows & Transparency with a similar option.

Issue might be in FreeType 2 that cannot output something like that or that VLC doesn't have enough adjustments for Freetype options.