VLC is a fine player, but it's very slow with new features. How come a project this big has to rely on donations?

The extension API is terrible. One of my pet peeves are the subtitles. You cannot take screenshots without subtitles when it's on, because it's rendered on the same overlay as the video.

Please put the subtitles on an overlay... If the audio volume can be on an overlay, so can the subtitles be. VLC needs to ramp up development and UI efforts, because PotPlayer is a much better, feature laden player, although it's Windows only :(.