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VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)

Linux 6.1.3-arch1-1

I want to increase/decrease the size of the subtitle font using keys. The default setting requires the mouse wheel which with my settings is impossible to adjust with sufficiently fine increments. With the smallest adjustment I get subtitles filling the screen or too tiny to read.

I don't see the setting in the the Tools.Preferences.HotKeys dialog. The only subtitle options that I see there are for synchronisation.

uPDATE:

There is a text configuration file ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc that has the following subtitle references that suggest sizing:

#global-key-subtitle-text-scale-normal=
# Reset subtitles text scale (string)
#key-subtitle-text-scale-normal=Ctrl+0
# Scale down subtitles text (string)
#global-key-subtitle-text-scale-up=
# Scale down subtitles text (string)
key-subtitle-text-scale-up=Ctrl+Mouse Wheel Up
# Scale up subtitles text (string)
#global-key-subtitle-text-scale-down=
# Scale up subtitles text (string)
key-subtitle-text-scale-down=Ctrl+Mouse Wheel Down

I have tried changing the scale-up/down settings ( using Mouse ) to for example Ctrl+G Ctrl+K following the format for setting key-subtitle-text-scale-normal, but though I see no error, it has no effect.

Stephen Boston
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It works for me on VLC 3.0.18 on Debian 11, you only need a lowercase g and k:

$ grep key-subtitle-text ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc
#global-key-subtitle-text-scale-normal=
#key-subtitle-text-scale-normal=Ctrl+0
#global-key-subtitle-text-scale-up=
key-subtitle-text-scale-up=Ctrl+g
#global-key-subtitle-text-scale-down=
key-subtitle-text-scale-down=Ctrl+k

I changed them initially in the hotkeys dialog (search for "sub"), but editing the config works as well:

screenshot hotkeys dialog

Freddy
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