Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
Last modified 18 years ago
#2547 closed patch (fixed)
visibility enhancements for text subtitle font
| Reported by: | Owned by: | danielk | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | mythtv | Version: | 0.20 |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
The text subtitle font is very unreadable on my wide-screen 28" TV, especially against a light background. This patch improves the visiblity by using a bold font, black outline and a black vertical shadow. I think this setting is suitable for everyone as it looks good on my 19" display, and on about 85" projector screen.
The font file should be copied to 'themes' subdir in 'mythtv' dir.
Attachments (2)
Change History (5)
Changed 18 years ago by
| Attachment: | visibility_improvements_for_text_subtitle_fonts.patch added |
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Changed 18 years ago by
| Attachment: | FreeSans-Bold.ttf added |
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comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by
| Owner: | changed from Isaac Richards to danielk |
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comment:2 Changed 18 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
(In [11557]) Fixes #2547. Adds outline to EIA-608 captions when they are not on a black background and adds a bold font option for better visibility with low resolution streams.
I grabbed the bold font from VLC because I couldn't source the font in the patch.
I didn't use the rest of the patch because it would have enabled outlines even when the captions were on a background, disabled font selection for the EIA-608 captions and Teletext (where the new bold font will not work), and would have unconditionally added a shadow which didn't look good with my HDTV test streams.
comment:3 Changed 18 years ago by
The original patch was meant for showing external text-based subtitle files. I wonder does your fix affect those at all?
the font (copy in themes dir)