[mythtv-users] Placement of subtitles / CC text on screen

[Glenn Sommer]

2010/1/28 Thomas Mørch <tmorch at gmail.com>:
> What tag in the osd.xml file, defines where on the screen the subtitles /
> closed caption text should be placed?
>
> Or is it defined somewhere else? I have been looking at different themes,
> metalurgy f.ex. places the subtitles mid left on the screen, and the font is
> nicely placed inside the black box.
>
> If I use Gray-OSD, then the subtitles are placed at the bottom of the screen
> where it should, but the letters extend beyond the black box.
>
> I tried changing the aspect ratio in themeinfo.xml for gray-osd, as well as
> the theme x/y size to match a 16:9 screen, and then the subtitles where
> moved to the mid left of the screen, and the font was placed inside the
> black box again.
>
> I have looked through the osd.xml file, but can't seem to find exactly where
> to fiddle to move the text to the right place. any pointers?
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
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Placement of subtitles is broken in Grey-OSD.
I'm just using another OSD theme, when I want to watch recordings with
subtitles.

In your case, you might wanna try a OSD theme that works, and look at
the differences.