<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Thank you for your help, but I am feeling really stupid. I can't get anything to work.<br><br></div>Since i don't know what font to use that have the Swedish characters I thought I should first get my semi transparent background.<br><br></div>Found an exampel from another theme that first did this:<br><shape name="grey_background" from="provider"><br> <type>box</type><br> <fill color="#000000" alpha="128" /><br></shape><br><br></div>Using mythfrontend -v vbi:debug I found out this:<br></div>The file used is Location: /home/stefan/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/osd_subtitle.xml<br></div>And the subtitle type used is:<br>GetFont(family=teletext, prefix=teletext, orig pixelSize=20, new pixelSize=20 zoom=100) = face=Liberation Sans pixelsize=20 color=#ffffff italics=0 weight=50 underline=0 shadow=0 shadowoffset=(0,0) shadowcolor=#000000 shadowalpha=255 outline=0 outlinecolor=#000000 outlinesize=0 outlinealpha=255<br><br><br></div>I managed to change the font, even though the Swedish characters don't show, but it was more of a test to see that something happened. But back to my semi transparent background. I now have this in my osd_subtitle.xml file:<br><shape name="teletext" from="grey_background" /><br><fontdef name="teletext" face="Liberation Sans" from="provider"><br></fontdef><br><br></div>As I understand it, I should now have the "grey" background. But it is still all black. So I must do something wrong, but what?<br><br></div>And i restart the frontend after every change to the file.<br><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Jim Stichnoth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stichnot@gmail.com" target="_blank">stichnot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Stefan D <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raptorjr08@gmail.com" target="_blank">raptorjr08@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I haven't checked yet, but is there a debug setting that shows me what kind of subtitle that is used? So i know which one to change?<br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div>Run "mythfrontend -v vbi:debug" and look for lines of log output like this:</div><div><br></div><div>GetFont(family=708, prefix=708_3, orig pixelSize=48, new pixelSize=48 zoom=100) = face=Droid Sans Mono pixelsize=48 color=#ffffff italics=0 weight=50 underline=0 shadow=0 shadowoffset=(2,2) shadowcolor=#000000 shadowalpha=255 outline=0 outlinecolor=#000000 outlinesize=0 outlinealpha=255</div><div><br></div><div>The key info in this example is that it is driven by the 708_3 entry, and that it chose the Droid Sans Mono font.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jim</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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