4:3 picture

[JeCh]

Hello,
can somebody help me with this: I have a movie in 16:9 aspect ratio and I want to play it on a 4:3 monitor or TV. Not a problem. But I want to have subtitles in the black area below the picture. Some players or filters (VSFilter aka VobSub) have a possibility to add black stripes to a picture to make it 4:3 or 16:9. But I cannot find this in VLC. This is a very important future for me, as having the subtitles covering half of the picture is not a good idea if there is a big black unused space below. Did I miss this in VLC settings or the future just isn't there?
Thank you,
JeCh

[krave]

I also want know about it, who can help us?

[The DJ]

This is not currently possible in VLC, it would require quite large changes to the system to, so this won't be possible anytime soon either.

[JeCh]

Why would be adding two black stripes to a picture so difficult? As far as I know most players can do it. Wouldn't help using some code from VSFilter (VobSub) which is a subtitle directshow filter and which can do this? I'm not a programer so maybe I'm completely wrong.
Thank you,
JeCh

[The DJ]

it's not impossible, it just requires changes in VLCs core design. And noone is really interested in doing it, so it doesn't get done.