Exactly the same problem with 0.8.2 here! Anyone?In my VLC 0.8.2 under "Preferences" -> "Video" -> "Subtitles / OSD" with the "advanced"-box checked on, there is an option called "force subtitle position". When hovering the mousecursor over this option, an explanation pops up, saying you can use this fuction if you want the subtitles to be displayed under the movie, instead of over it. This is exactly what I want, but whatever value (positive or negative) I enter in the "force subtitle position"-field, nothing seems to happen, not even after restarting the VLC application.
How do I get this option to work?
That really is too bad. I hope this features gets fixed in later releases of VLC and will be compatible with all types of subtitles.This does only work with text-subtitles. DVD-subs or bitmapped subs (such as VobSub) don't work.
Additionally, this feature is completely broken in later versions than 0.8.2, but it does still run in that release.
That's meant for plain text subtitles, so they can't be moved indeed. VLC 0.8.2 is the last current version with that feature, but I hope that this will return in 0.8.5.Additionally, this feature is completely broken in later versions than 0.8.2, but it does still run in that release.
I've just tried to position the text in both version 0.8.2 and 0.8.4 with no result in either of them. (I used .srt subtitles)VLC 0.8.2 is the last current version with that feature
Actually some of the Devs would like to see it too and that's why it has never been removed and probably won't be removed.This feature has been broken for a couple of years now.
A simple suggestion then:
Either fix this promptly, at least for plaintext subtitle files like the .srt format.
Or else promptly remove it from the settings menu completely.
I really want such a feature and hope that you'll fix it. Other players can do it so I hope VLC will too. Compared to all the other "magic" VLC can accomplish, this seems to my non-programmer eyes as a small thing to fix.
But if not then please stop giving false hope by leaving it in the settings menu.
... Santos wrote about something like that:I've never heard of subtitles written to a simple .txt-file.
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{1}{75}movie info: *******
{80}{168}>>>Tłumaczenie - krisstofer<<<
{400}{484}>>>Greetz for MwTeam<<<
hahaha You are just very very lazy i think...You can't put subs where there is no video.
The player does NOT create the black borders! A cropped video has no black borders they have been removed.- First the discussion about the black border. In my experience anyone who watches 16x9 or 1.86:1 movies IN FULL SCREEN MODE on a 3x4 monitor or TV has black borders. I do not know a player that does not create black borders in full screen when the aspect ratio of the display does not match the aspect ratio of the movie. Personally I like the subtitles to be displayed in this black space.
You can't place subs in a video area that's not there or at least not reliably. Which of the 9 some odd formats would you like to try?- Secondly there is some discussion about the player automatically adjusting the subtitle position. This should not be an issue. The default placement for subs can or should be in the video area, but the user should be allowed to change it. This could be done with a shortcut key or in the preferences. There is no issue for people with 16x9 screens, they just use the default position.
You are correct! Vobsub is a graphic based format and it has its own controls that over ride VLC's. In text based subs the controls work, except for Sub Station Alpha which also has it's own controls.I downloaded VLC because I couldn't get the feature working in Vobsub with media player classic.
It turns out though that almost none of the options for subtitles work in VLC. Why have options that doesn't do anything?
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