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Adding/Customizing Fonts - kilogeno - 2024-01-18
How do i add a different font for subtitles? i want a white font with a black border for better readability, like the VLC default font
RE: Adding/Customizing Fonts - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-01-18
This will largely depend on what type of subtitles you're dealing with.
If your files have image-based subs (like vobsub or PGS), you can't change their fonts since they're images being played at set times. They're not set up in a text format. You'll have to OCR them and save them in another sub format to do so.
If your subs are ASS/SSA subs, you'll have to edit each sub file to change the fonts for each style type. Depending on the sub source for these, a single sub file could have one style or multiple styles that you'll have to edit the fonts for. You'll then have to make sure you either embed the font files into each video container or add them as a fallback font in Jellyfin's dashboard, as each client might not have access to that specific font. If the client you're playing the video on doesn't have that specific font, the client will replace it with one of its default fonts (or break the subs in some cases and show unintelligible gibberish on screen).
If your subs are in a format like SRT subs, I believe Jellyfin can change the look of these (at least on Jellyfin's webGUI-based browsers). Go to your client settings, then subtitles, and in there you'll find some settings to change the way they look.
RE: Adding/Customizing Fonts - kilogeno - 2024-01-18
Got it. so mainly just looking to add a new default font. the current jellyfin defaults are hard to read/distinguish from the moving images behind