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Subtitles Black Screen

Summary

Subtitles appear on a black screen, rather than layered over the video.

Minimal project and steps to reproduce

  1. Clone this repo: https://gitlab.com/brisingre/vlc-unity-bugs
  2. Import a recent development version of VLC Unity (I can provide the specific one I'm using if needed)
  3. Open the "130 Subtitles Black Screen" scene
  4. Press play in Unity
  5. Press Subtitles On and watch for a few seconds. You will see a black screen whenever a subtitle is on screen.
  6. Press Subtitles Off and watch the problem go away.

What is the current bug behavior?

Subtitles appear on a black screen.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Subtitles appear layered on top of video.

Does it work on other plaforms? Does it work with the official VLC apps?

Right now VLC for Unity only supports one platform. Certainly VLC works fine on Windows 7.

Environment

  • OS: Windows
  • Version 7
  • Device: PC
  • LibVLC version and architecture 4.0.0 x64
  • LibVLCSharp version Not quite sure how to check this, sorry.
  • VLC Unity plugin [Some development version! @mfkl sent it to me on discord.]
  • Scripting backend used Mono

Possible fixes

I don't have any fixes or workarounds for this.