2020-04-02, 22:51
A minor thing, but one which irritates me: if a video is not played full screen, any subtitles are not correspondingly downsized.
For example, suppose we have a 720p/24 video, and the output resolution is set to 1080p/24; and suppose that we change the view mode from "Normal" to "Original Size". The video is now displayed in a 1280x720 window; but the subtitles are still displayed full size and in the same place - typically at the bottom of the screen, below the video window.
It seems to me that the default behaviour should be to downsize the subtitles by the same amount that the video has been downsized, and display them at the same relative position within the video window that they would normally be displayed on the screen.
If the subtitles are in .srt format, you can approximate this behaviour by choosing to display them at "bottom of video" rather than in a "fixed" position, and by reducing the font size; but A: it's clunky to have to keep changing the settings, and B: this approach doesn't work if the subtitles are in an image-based format (e.g. directly remuxed from a DVD).
The current behaviour looks particularly ugly if you choose to play a remuxed DVD video at original size (output at 1080p) and turn subtitles on - text is displayed miles below the picture and at giant size compared to the video.
For example, suppose we have a 720p/24 video, and the output resolution is set to 1080p/24; and suppose that we change the view mode from "Normal" to "Original Size". The video is now displayed in a 1280x720 window; but the subtitles are still displayed full size and in the same place - typically at the bottom of the screen, below the video window.
It seems to me that the default behaviour should be to downsize the subtitles by the same amount that the video has been downsized, and display them at the same relative position within the video window that they would normally be displayed on the screen.
If the subtitles are in .srt format, you can approximate this behaviour by choosing to display them at "bottom of video" rather than in a "fixed" position, and by reducing the font size; but A: it's clunky to have to keep changing the settings, and B: this approach doesn't work if the subtitles are in an image-based format (e.g. directly remuxed from a DVD).
The current behaviour looks particularly ugly if you choose to play a remuxed DVD video at original size (output at 1080p) and turn subtitles on - text is displayed miles below the picture and at giant size compared to the video.
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