[mythtv-users] Placement of subtitles / CC text on screen

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Thomas Mørch <tmorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> What tag in the osd.xml file, defines where on the screen the subtitles /
> closed caption text should be placed?
>
> Or is it defined somewhere else? I have been looking at different themes,
> metalurgy f.ex. places the subtitles mid left on the screen, and the font is
> nicely placed inside the black box.

For EIA-608 and EIA-708 closed captions, position information is part
of the data, and mythtv honors it.  DVD captions are just bitmap
overlays.  What kind of captions/subtitles are you asking about?

Jim