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> My favorite argument: "That area is reserved for subtitles."

I guess you're joking here, but I really wish subtitle presentated was more formally systematized. And, your idea actually seems like a good one, it's just too bad video players don't behave like that. E.g., I'd love if VLC player shifted the visible screen as up as it can, and reserve the one big bar at the bottom to showing subtitles.

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I was only half joking.

I'm not sure if VLC has the same feature, but KMPlayer (freeware but closed-source) has all sorts of options to tweak the way subtitles are displayed, and even allows you to edit the subtitles on the fly. I suppose these features are largely due to the fact that subtitles are absolutely essential in Korea (where KMPlayer come from).

Those features are from MPlayer, KMPlayer just puts them on a GUI.

Also, I don't get the idea that subtitles are favoured in any way by MPlayer. Did you see the amount of options you have for handling sound?

I meant the Korean KMPlayer [1], not KDE's KMPlayer [2]. The former does not use MPlayer.

[1] http://www.kmpmedia.net/

[2] http://kmplayer.kde.org/

VLC most likely has some filters (look for one called "expand" maybe) that will do this.

This is one of the reasons I ended up using the Mac app Movist (which was once open source, but later redone to be on the Mac App Store for $5). I actually mainly use this because of better shortcuts and because of its subtitle handling.

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