This is one feature I’d love to see.
These days we mostly use 16:9 format screens, but a lot of content, in particular movies, are of wider format than that, so they are displayed with black bars. And subtitles–which we all like–are displayed over the video.
But it would very nice to have an option to display all content wider than the screen on top of the screen with a wider black bar on bottom with all the subtitles pushed into the black bar below. That would both render the video more cleanly and make the subtitles easier to read over a black background.
I understand that some subtitle formats are have fixed screen locations and probably should remain that way. But with text-based subtitles not tied to any location, this would seem like a pure win and not too hard or demanding on the hardware.
I’d love to see Plex (probably the clients?) have such an option.
