Subtitle placement too low in Chrome/Firefox

[Moods 0]

So I dunno when it started, but its recent, subtitles are placed too low, pretty much at the very bottom of the screen in both Chrome and Firefox, in Emby Theater, on Chromecast and on my Smart TV this is not an issue.

 

So I am not sure what happend on the browser version.

 

Anyone experienced this? I cant seem to find anywhere to adjust subtitle positioning.

 

I have attached a PNG file to show my issue.

Edited July 31, 2019 by Moods

[Moods 0]

No support around that could give me a helping hand ?

[Moods 0]

Really, no help at all  Guess its back to Plex for the time being.

Edited August 3, 2019 by Moods

[Luke 39685]

Hi @@Moods yes I agree we need to improve the positioning. Thanks for the feedback.

[MisterCyp 0]

Hi all,

 

I still have the same issue with version 4.3.1.0 on Firefox: :/

 

[Luke 39685]

Firefox doesn't offer a way to control subtitle position, but chrome does and we are utilizing that to position them.

[Nisalon 0]

On 12/28/2019 at 4:13 AM, Luke said:

Firefox doesn't offer a way to control subtitle position, but chrome does and we are utilizing that to position them.

 

Actually there is a way to do it @Luke (and I would love to have this done as I'm a Firefox user and using Emby in Firefox mainly). If you run that when the video starts, subtitles will be at the desired vertical position. It works well in all the cases I tested (including multiple subtitles with timestamps overlapping)

let subtitlePosition = 80; // The number corresponding to the position. 0 for top, 100 for bottom. Should be probably linked to a setting

let videoElmt = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];

for(let i=0;i<videoElmt.textTracks[0].cues.length;i++){
	videoElmt.textTracks[0].cues[i].snapToLines = false;
	videoElmt.textTracks[0].cues[i].line = subtitlePosition;
}

You can find more info there https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#cues

Thanks

Edited October 30, 2020 by Nisalon

[Luke 39685]

On 10/29/2020 at 10:29 PM, Nisalon said:

 

Actually there is a way to do it @Luke (and I would love to have this done as I'm a Firefox user and using Emby in Firefox mainly). If you run that when the video starts, subtitles will be at the desired vertical position. It works well in all the cases I tested (including multiple subtitles with timestamps overlapping)

let subtitlePosition = 80; // The number corresponding to the position. 0 for top, 100 for bottom. Should be probably linked to a setting

let videoElmt = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];

for(let i=0;i<videoElmt.textTracks[0].cues.length;i++){
	videoElmt.textTracks[0].cues[i].snapToLines = false;
	videoElmt.textTracks[0].cues[i].line = subtitlePosition;
}

You can find more info there https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#cues

Thanks

hi @Nisalon yes that is possible, although that would end up overriding data that is already in the subtitles, whereas the current techniques do not do that. But yes that is doable. Thanks.

[Nisalon 0]

In that case, can it be implemented (maybe a setting, which by default has the current behavior, and when changed, does this) ?

Thanks

[Luke 39685]

On 11/5/2020 at 3:44 PM, Nisalon said:

In that case, can it be implemented (maybe a setting, which by default has the current behavior, and when changed, does this) ?

Thanks

Yes it's possible for the future, thanks for the feedback.