Ugly subtitles?

[DaVince21]

This has been bothering me for a while now: under the Linux version of VLC, the subtitles are always very ugly. First, it took me about 15 minutes to find a font that's not blurry and actually fits for videos with resolutions. The fonts would only look good if I use double width borders around them, too.

Right now my subtitles are decent enough, but compared to other media players things stay pixelated (on lower-res videos) and inconsistent. It seems that the text rendering adapts to the video's size, but this is actually a bad thing for the subtitle text's quality.

So my question was: is better subtitle font support in progress or not? If not, I wonder why not, and why no one complained before since it's so difficult to have it look decentish.

On a somewhat related note: some subtitles in MKVs will sometimes display multiple subtitles, but they overlap if that happens, making the text difficult to read. Will this be fixed in a future version?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

We are working on it.

[DaVince21]

Really? Awesome, that's all I needed to know, thanks! Keep up the great work!

[catdusa]

Still working on it? I have the same problem on Windows. The subtitles displays with the same resolution as the source video, but should rather be displayed in the resolution of the window or screen.

[Lotesdelere]

The subtitles displays with the same resolution as the source video, but should rather be displayed in the resolution of the window or screen.

Yes it's a major flaw of VLC since the beginning, a core misconception.
But it should be finally fixed in v1.2, at least that's what I've been told. Fingers crossed