Posts: 10
Joined: Apr 2018
Reputation:
0
yoyoma
Junior Member
Posts: 10
I like to use a small font and cyan color for my subtitles. This works well for for external subtitles that I download. However if I play an MKV file that includes subtitles in the container, they are always the original white color and larger font than I like. There is no way I can change them. Or is there? Is this a bug? Or are we stuck using whatever font and color the subtitle is in the container? Couldn't find the answer through searching. Thank you
Posts: 14,213
Joined: Nov 2009
Reputation:
707
Klojum
Lost connection
Posts: 14,213
Internal subtitles can be of a different type just like external subtitles.
Some subtitles do have 'makeup', and will be displayed with such. It's not a bug.
The simplest way right now to avoid that is to either download the .SRT equivalent, or convert the internal subtitle into a .SRT variant.
Posts: 10
Joined: Apr 2018
Reputation:
0
yoyoma
Junior Member
Posts: 10
Ok so you are saying if I'm using handbrake to encode I should import the SRT instead of using the original. Understood. Adds an extra step but I guess it can be done.
Posts: 10
Joined: Apr 2018
Reputation:
0
yoyoma
Junior Member
Posts: 10
Actually that doesn't work. All MKVs play in white large subtitles no matter what even if encoded with downloaded SRT. Th only way is too download the SRT within Kodi. Kind of defeats the purpose of encoding in MKV format. Maybe this is something the developers could look into fixing. I would call it a bug.
Posts: 14,213
Joined: Nov 2009
Reputation:
707
Klojum
Lost connection
Posts: 14,213
There are tools to extract files/streams from an MKV file, including subtitle files.
After the conversion to SRT, you can re-mux them into the MKV file.
See MKVToolnix and MKVExtract.
Posts: 10
Joined: Apr 2018
Reputation:
0
yoyoma
Junior Member
Posts: 10
Did that. But once they are back in the MKV, subtitles are back to being white and big again.
Posts: 14,213
Joined: Nov 2009
Reputation:
707
Klojum
Lost connection
Posts: 14,213
If the subtitle's color and size are still there, then either the old subtitle stream is still there or the white and big subtitles have been permanently burnt into the video stream.
Posts: 10,533
Joined: Oct 2011
Reputation:
640
jjd-uk
Team-Kodi Member
Posts: 10,533
So is SRT format subs that are now inside the MKV?
Run MediaInfo on the file to confirm exactly what it contains.
Posts: 356
Joined: May 2013
Reputation:
23
2018-04-19, 12:54
(This post was last modified: 2018-04-19, 12:57 by host505.)
In case the subtitles are in .ass/.ssa format, there's a setting on Player/Language/Override ass/ssa subtitle fonts, which I guess if enabled it will override the color/font that the .ass/.ssa subtitle might have with whatever is set on Kodi.
Posts: 10
Joined: Apr 2018
Reputation:
0
yoyoma
Junior Member
Posts: 10
In conclusion, what it comes down to is Kodi is unable to change fonts, font size or color of subtitles that are embedded (not burned into the video) in MKV files. This should be noted somewhere. Either in documentation or in the language/subtitles setting.
Posts: 10
Joined: Apr 2018
Reputation:
0
yoyoma
Junior Member
Posts: 10
Yes. It doesn't change anything.
