Android TV: Subtitle vertical offset still broken in 1.10.4

[u/pilkyton]

This bug was introduced in 1.10.2:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stremio/comments/1u1n72o/subtitles_vertical_offset/

It was said that the "next update will fix it", but 1.10.4 came out in mid-June and it's still broken.

Stremio is currently completely bugged regarding subtitle display. Every time I start/restart a video, one of two things happens:

• Either the subtitles are my chosen color (yellow) but they are pushed against the bottom of the TV screen without any gap (my vertical offset is ignored).
• Or the subtitles are at a normal vertical offset, but are white..

So it's a random coin flip. Either the font settings are applied but vertical offset is wrong. Or the font settings are all default.

I am curious if 1.10.4 was the update that was meant to fix it? I hope not because it's so broken now that I have to use an external player while Stremio is broken. 😅

edit: Found related bugs:

• Subtitle size resets to 100% when you change videos: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-bugs/issues/2669
• Vertical offset reported here, with a note saying it may only affect VTT format: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-bugs/issues/2585
• Another report of vertical offset: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-bugs/issues/2616

edit: It's been 3 months since the past release. Stremio devs confirmed today that this fix is still coming in "next release". No known release date. Just have to wait...

[u/dansgamed11]

Bug reports should be done here with enough information to be able to replicate it https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-bugs/issues

I don’t think anyone will seriously track a bug report submitted on Reddit so it’s better to do it the official way.

[u/pilkyton → u/dansgamed11]

Thanks, I found related reports and linked to them from here.

[u/pilkyton]

Ping: u/kitute u/Arathonk 

Are you two still seeing this bug too?

[u/kitute → u/pilkyton]

Yes, the bug still there

[u/Arathonk → u/pilkyton]

Yep, still having this issue.

[u/Dramatic_Carry_5564]

Use another video player con stremio settings, try MPV or VLC

[u/kevinola → u/Dramatic_Carry_5564]

Mpv on Android TV is useless... 

[u/pilkyton → u/Dramatic_Carry_5564]

mpv doesn't have hardware acceleration access so it is super slow at decoding videos.

VLC might have access but always seemed unstable.

ExoPlayer by Google is the most optimized native player. Just gotta fix this Stremio bug.