subtitles on overlay surface in VLC

[hilario]

Hi everybody:

I dont find how to configure VLC to display subs on the overlay surface.
Everything I try they always show on video.

Is there any configuration on VLC to make subs display on overlay surface ??

[Case]

subs on the overlay surface

Do you perhaps mean the black portion below the movie, in full screen mode?
I don't think VLC can render subtitles there.

[hilario]

Yes the black portion below the movie.

Sorry to hear that

[jagabo]

Generally, no player can do that because they don't know the black border is there. They decompress to the frame size of the source video, write the subtitles onto the frame, then passes that frame to the graphics driver to display on the monitor. It's the graphics driver that is adding the black border.

[poisondeathray]

kmplayer

you can set to draw to "overlay surface" , and move the subs wherever you want e.g. "ctrl + [" will move the subs down into the black border area for letterboxed content (e.g. cropped 2.35:1 AR content when viewed on a 16:9 display)

[hilario]

kmplayer

you can set to draw to "overlay surface" , and move the subs wherever you want e.g. "ctrl + [" will move the subs down into the black border area for letterboxed content (e.g. cropped 2.35:1 AR content when viewed on a 16:9 display)

Yes I know Kmplayer can do that and potplayer too.

But I was tryimg to get same results on VLC or eventually MPC.

Thank you guys