Transparent subtitles about castnow HOT 7 CLOSED

Thanks :)
I once played around with transparent backgrounds. The problem is that the font is hard to read in scenes where the colors in the video are similar to the color of the subtitles.

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But maybe some predefined color-schemas would be nice

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Subtitles are normally displayed in white, with a black border, and sometimes a shadow. I am not sure what options are offered by Chromecast's subtitle engine though... If there are no extra options, white text on a black background is perfect.

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There are some styling options. We have documented them here:

https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2-client/wiki/How-to-use-subtitles-with-the-DefaultMediaReceiver-app#subtitle-styling

If someone is willing to investigate in 2 or 3 nice color-schemas I'm gladly willing to integrate them.

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Thanks for the link. I will play with the options.

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Great news .. Hope this can land in 0.5 .. This is shaping up rapidly to be my favorite chromecast client (getvideostream.com now is)

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The following style works pretty well:

textTrackStyle: {
  backgroundColor: '#00000000',
  edgeColor: '#000000FF',
  edgeType: 'OUTLINE',
  fontFamily: 'Sans',
  fontStyle: 'BOLD'
}

I had to patch node_modules/chromecast-player/api.js though.

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