SRT subtitle color support?

[pastorn 2]

Hi there,

 

I am posting this in the Samsung and the Android TV forums. For those of you that have problems with too bright HDR subs, have you tried the following edit to your SRT files?

 

<font color=#808080>Line</font>

 

This worked on the LG Smart TV app up until the latest release of the app where the support disappeared.    It appears that neither the support for it or the removal of the support was intentional by the developers but I hope they are able to restore this in the future. Meanwhile, I am curious to hear if it still works on the Samsung release? Or if it has never worked?

 

It can sound a bit nerdy to have to edit your SRT files to get a good viewing experience but it has the upside that you can do it for HDR subs alone and leave SDR subs untouched. A setting in the app would most likely affect all subtitles. And it takes like 10s with a proper subtitle editor (select all lines, change color).

 

Best regards

Martin

[Luke 37063]

We were previously rendering SRT subtitles using our own custom rendering, and it might have accidentally supported this, however in the latest release we switched back to having the LG video player render them.

 

So now it's a question of whether it supports this or not, and it looks like it probably does not. And no, we can't switch back to the custom rendering because that has it's own problems, it is really only a last resort when the built-in LG rendering doesn't work. And it turns out the custom rendering is only needed for WebOS 1.X and 2.X.

[kabal 0]

We were previously rendering SRT subtitles using our own custom rendering, and it might have accidentally supported this, however in the latest release we switched back to having the LG video player render them.

 

So now it's a question of whether it supports this or not, and it looks like it probably does not. And no, we can't switch back to the custom rendering because that has it's own problems, it is really only a last resort when the built-in LG rendering doesn't work. And it turns out the custom rendering is only needed for WebOS 1.X and 2.X.

 

I used to change subtitles colour with Subtitle Workshop for HDR movies and now it's not working. Without this watching HDR content with white subtitles is eyeburning experience. 

Why you didn't provide colour changing opition yet? People asking for this for years and still nothing and now even manual change is impossible:(.

[Luke 37063]

We're going as fast as we can to make everyone as happy as possible. Thanks guys.