[The_Franz]

i finally got around to trying out the subtitles in xbmc and they were rather difficult to read when against a brighter background.  i looked at mplayer and it has a command line argument (-ffactor) that resamples the alphamap of the subtitle fonts to change the size of the black borders.  the function is already there, so would it be possible for you to add a control to thicken or reduce the borders around the subtitles?  if they were just a little thicker, they would be much easier to read in some circumstances.