Allow text subtitles in the black bar below video on Android TV

[Geordie 14]

I’ve switched to Emby fully now and loving how fast it is!

One thing I miss from my old client is allowing text subtitles to move into the black bar below the video (when video aspect ratio forces black bars above & below).

By default, exoplayer’s SubtitleView restricts text over the video frame only!

Many video players override this to allow fully customisable subtitles position on the entire screen instead of just the video!

There’s already a request to implement this upstream in exoplayer:

https://github.com/androidx/media/issues/2977

There are also links to how it was implemented in other clients.

Thanks for reading! Looking forward to this. 

 

[ebr 16584]

 

[Geordie 14]

Sorry I missed that. I hope my post helps move this forward. Many people will appreciate the option.

To be more specific, this is the patch (few lines of code) required to allow exoplayer to render subtitles outside the video frame! No need for a custom renderer or anything fancy.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/pull/4816

 

Feel free to close or delete this!

Thanks