Proper subtitle styling possibility?

[da3dsoul1]

Amazing player, though lacks some basic functionality of properly displaying subtitles with embedded fonts in them.

Here's an example how subtitle look on both pc and mobile version of vlc/mpv player(sub-pos set to 87):

This is correct displaying meant by the author(font,size,style,etc)

And this is how next player displays them:

So as you can see it picks default font and styling for the subtitle, the player has an option to use embedded styles, but looks like it's not 100% compatible. Any way to fully utilize self contained subtitles in an .mkv file? Like it's done in vlc, mpv, mx player.

Also I have a feature request: subtitle position implementation, is it possible to be done in nextplayer?

[DarremMolko]

It's mentioned in the readme (here https://github.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer#supported-formats). Basically Next Player is based on ExoPlayer which has limited support for SSA/ASS styling.

[anilbeesetti]

Unfortunately, this cannot be fixed easily due to the upstream ExoPlayer lacking proper support for SSA/ASS styling.
Upsteam issue link:- google/ExoPlayer#8435

[nate-moo]

@anilbeesetti What would the possibility of implementing libass for SSA/ASS styling support since it seems like that exoplayer issue and PR have stalled or maybe rebasing exoplayer against this PR? google/ExoPlayer#10169
I can take a look at possibly doing it but I am not great at kotlin and android development.