Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: vlc
VLC ignores my font selection for rendering subtitles. It will briefly
display the filename in my selected font at the start of playback, but
for the text of subtitles (from, for example, an externally loaded srt
file or from embedded srt subtitles) always uses the same font. I'm not
entirely sure but it appears to be Verdana or Bitstream Vera Sans.
I thought that perhaps I was just having a miserably bad day
distinguishing fonts, so I tried a serif font -- again, the file name
was displayed in my selected font and VLC immediately reverted to
displaying the actual subtitles in the mystery sans serif font.
As far as I know, there is no facility for specifying a font in SRT
format, and at any rate, I've read over the entire file and there don't
appear to be any references to other fonts, so I am pretty sure that VLC
is simply ignoring the setting.
Here is the relevant section of my vlcrc:
[freetype] # Freetype2 font renderer
# string (Font)
freetype-font=/usr/local/share/fonts/Droid/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
# integer (Font size in pixels)
freetype-fontsize=24
# integer (Opacity)
#freetype-opacity=255
# integer (Text default color)
#freetype-color=16777215
# integer (Relative font size)
#freetype-rel-fontsize=16
# integer (Font Effect)
freetype-effect=3
# boolean (Use YUVP renderer)
#freetype-yuvp=0
The file I have described exists and is readable:
$ ls -l /usr/local/share/fonts/Droid/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 148484 2009-04-19 21:59
/usr/local/share/fonts/Droid/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
(again, at the start of playback, VLC displays the video filename in
Droid Sans Bold, so it's not that VLC can't open the file for reading)
I have tried nuking ~/.config/vlc and recreating my settings again; the
result is the same.
These are the versions of packages on my system:
ii libvlc2 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1
multimedia player and streamer library
ii libvlccore0 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1
base library for VLC and its modules
ii vlc 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1
multimedia player and streamer
ii vlc-data 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1
Common data for VLC
ii vlc-nox 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1
multimedia player and streamer (without X su
I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on amd64.
** Affects: vlc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: font subtitle
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vlc ignores subtitle font setting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380077
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