Fuzzy fat unreadable subtitles

[bmaz121]

I tried all I could find searching and nothing will change the font on certain DVDs. I seems like the subtitle options has no effect on these movies. Even in the All options subtitle menu does nothing to change the font. What is wrong with this program. Why can't I change the font on subtitles? I am hard of hearing and need subtitles. The current font has fuzzy letters so fat that all the letters are touching each other no holes in the letter B for instance. This is a windows 10 machine with very fast Internet, and playing the DVD on the PC. This program is missing the Current font in the All/Video/subtitle options. What is Auto detection fuzzyness option for? I have it set to 0. It was 3. Why can't I send a screen shot with this topic?
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[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The subtitles in DVDs are bitmaps, so that they look exactly the same on all DVD players. They cannot be changed.

Your problem may be a display driver issue though.

[bmaz121]

Just wondering. then why have all those options in the program?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Because VLC plays more formats than just DVDs.

[Somps]

This isn't just with DVDs. I have an MP4 with added subtitle and its exactly the same. I've tried other movies with different file types and the subtitles are unreadable. I've come across several people having the same issue but seems that nobody knows the fix.

[bmaz121]

It seems the font used in the subtitle is fixed. The only way to fix that on files like MP4 is to find a subtitle file for that movie and replace the existing one. I wouldn't know how to do that , maybe in some video editor, so that's it. Same for DVD's, you would have to edit the subtitle file and reburn the DVD, which is to much trouble for me.

[InTheWings]

You don't even report your version...

There was palette issue in DVD SPU in menus which has been solved.

[bmaz121]

Doesn't matter what version of player or which player they all do the same thing. Haven't seen it lately. I have auto update so whatever is the latest VLC.

[ericpeterson]

Just installed VLC 3.0.6 and and find that the English sub-titles are fuzzy blobs - barely readable. VLC is running on Windows 10.
One movie with this problem is "Ocean's 8" - the regular DVD and not the BluRay version.
I see this issue has been reported on in the past but I have not found any suggested fix that resolves my issue.
On a side note, I also installed PotPlayer and the subtitles display OK with that program.
Anyone have any updates as to how to get the subtitles working in VLC?