Fat subtitles

[GilDawson]

We really like VLC and use it for most of our movie watching. The mostest greatest feature is Window -> Extended Controls -> Gamma. There's nothing else that will help the "black crush" on our projector, but this control eliminates "black crush" completely.

Most movies, the Subtitles and Captions work just fine. But on some movies (Sherlock Holmes in particular, but there has been another), there are no captions and the subtitles are in a fat font that is literally impossible to read. They are also grey instead of white. Too bad, one would think, because, to quote the documentation, "DVD and SVCD subtitles are merely images, so you won't be able to change anything for them." http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... /Basic_Use

But wait, there's more. Switching to DVD Player, the subtitles come out nice and white: easy to read. (The dark scenes, well,... we have to guess what's going on, but at least we can understand the dialog.)

How can this be? Subtitles look great on DVD Player but unreadable on VLC???

I tried monkeying with Preferences -> Subtitles -> All, but nothing I changed did anything. One curiosity: the Subtitle font, "Arial Black" was named in a text box. I could select, say, "Black" with my mouse, but nothing I did on my keyboard affected it.

I'm looking forward to learning something...

--Gil

Using VLC Version 1.1.3 The Luggage (Intel 64bit) running under MacOS 10.6.4 on a Mac Mini and also on a MacBook Pro (same problem with both machines).

[GilDawson]

A few more things...

# I Quit VLC, ran the "Delete VLC Preferences" script, and relaunched VLC. No help.
# Another DVD (Where The Wild Things Are) has similar symptoms.
# A third DVD (Sordid Lives) works fine.
# Both the do-not-work movies are from Warner Brothers and are relatively new.
# I tried VLC 1.0.5 instead of 1.1.3 (Why did I save an old version?) and got similar results.