Subtitle Behaviour when playing TS file with SRT containing Colour Codes

[rcwhite]

When I play a TS file with an SRT file in the same folder, using the "[videofile].default.srt" nomenclature, it plays the subtitles automatically. However if the SRT file contains display colour codes (e.g. <font color="#ffff00">) it displays the code and still shows the text in white, rather than converting the tagged text to the colour needed.

If however I take the same TS file and convert it to the Matroska MKV format, including an identical SRT file as the default, then NextPVR displays all the subtitles and colours correctly.

Is there a way to make it work properly without having to convert to MKV?

Background in case you are wondering why - I take recordings from satellite German, French or Spanish channels. I grab the subtitles, and with the help of the free "SubTitleEdit" I manipulate the subtitles so that I have, in one SRT file, the foreign language in one colour on top, and the English, in another colour, underneath, thus getting two languages on screen at the same time. My wife, who can speak these languages pretty well, enjoys the foreign version while I (linguistic ignoramus!) can still watch the programmes thanks to the English subs (sometimes poor Google translations of the foreign language, but I can get the gist, and it provides additional amusement at times). We have found the colours an essential aid to quickly focus on the right text as it flashes up.

Any thoughts, anyone? I already have a solution of sorts, but I'd like to avoid the step of converting to MKV if possible.

[sub]

Can you supply an example SRT file which uses colours?

[rcwhite]

I'll try to attach a zip of one that I know works, text all extracted from a French film that was fairly recently recorded with NextPVR from TV5 Monde.

[sub]

Give this patch a go.

[rcwhite]

Yes that works, thank you very much, sub. Will this tweak make its way into the next mainstream release or should I keep the patch.

[sub]

Yes, it's included in the next release.

[Reddwarf]

After this update my srt subtitles got a lot smaller, and thus harder to read, is there a way to make the font bigger?

[sub]

This one makes it slightly bigger.

I reduced the original size because some lines were not fitting.

[Reddwarf]

This one makes it slightly bigger.

I reduced the original size because some lines were not fitting.

Thanks that's better, but three is still plenty of room on my 1920x1080 screen, especially in Remove Letterbox mode.

[Handy.Man]

From discussion on the Handbrake forum, it looks like you can not resize font in EIA 608 subtitles without loosing position information of the subtitles lines. This may due the way subtitles are decoded by handbrake.

https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php...79#p149679