Weird looking subtitles

[tmpor]

The subtitles on an .mkv I have look like this:



My VLC player preferences are default and other videos with subtitles display them readably (normally). Here's a normal looking video with subs for comparison.



Is this a problem with the video file itself? Should I demux the file and and try to remux new subtitles?

[Baldrick]

Can you disable them? So they aren't burned in.

If youy can disable them it t's probably ass/ssa subtitles with some crappy font or you need to download that font. Or it could be image subtitles.

[jman98]

I'm guessing it's some kind of antialiasing gone wild in the font.

Yes, you should demux them and remux new subs as the easiest way to fix this. I suppose if you can post back what format they're in, maybe somebody will have an idea about whether you can fix it or not. I almost never deal with anything but SRT so I can't help with non-SRT subs and I'm sure these are not SRT subs.

[tmpor]

@Baldrick: They can be disabled. I'm going to try demuxing whatever subs are in it with MKVEXtractGUI and MKVE Wizard and remuxing with an srt I find online.

EDIT: Here's what mkvmerge is showing me. I don't know too much about these formats, but here it is.


EDIT2: And it worked. Thank you for the help. All that's left now is to fine tune the timing on the new srt. Thanks!