2014-10-13, 12:34
The following is my personal view on how subtitles should be handled in Kodi from an end-user's perspective.
Subtitles has nothing to do with audio (not talking about sync here, remember the perspective..) and should not be under audio settings in the OSD.
Imaging explaining a novice Kodi user that in order to change his built-in subtitles he or she cannot go via the subtitles OSD, but has to go to audio settings
My suggestion is to put subtitle related settings in one menu, start by picking all subtitle related elements from the OSD audio settings and put it in the OSD subtitle menu. In the subtitle menu there are two additional buttons "download" + "change offset". Download opens up what we have now under the OSD subtitle menu and shows your subtitle plugins and "change offset" opens up the change offset view.
Another improvement: after setting the offset users want to continue watching their movie in 99% of the cases, therefore on clicking 'OK' to confirm the new offset, close the menu automatically.
Subtitles has nothing to do with audio (not talking about sync here, remember the perspective..) and should not be under audio settings in the OSD.
Imaging explaining a novice Kodi user that in order to change his built-in subtitles he or she cannot go via the subtitles OSD, but has to go to audio settings
My suggestion is to put subtitle related settings in one menu, start by picking all subtitle related elements from the OSD audio settings and put it in the OSD subtitle menu. In the subtitle menu there are two additional buttons "download" + "change offset". Download opens up what we have now under the OSD subtitle menu and shows your subtitle plugins and "change offset" opens up the change offset view.
Another improvement: after setting the offset users want to continue watching their movie in 99% of the cases, therefore on clicking 'OK' to confirm the new offset, close the menu automatically.