Current SE5 workarounds for dark mpv-opengl rendering and ASS overlap

[hisui3393]

I found that changing

"VideoPlayer": "mpv-opengl"

to

"VideoPlayer": "mpv"

in settings.json made the video rendering noticeably brighter on my system.

With "mpv-opengl", the image appeared too dark, while plain "mpv" looks much more correct here (Windows 11 + NVIDIA GPU).

I also still manually set subtitle line overlap to true in settings.json for ASS subtitle work, since overlapping lines are essential in my workflow.

So currently I am using:

"VideoPlayer": "mpv"
"AllowOverlap": true

as workarounds in SE5.

I still wish there were a simple checkbox for AllowOverlap in the settings UI, like SE4 had.

[niksedk]

You can change the video player in settings - and now also "Allow overlap" + a new toggle brightness shortcut :)

Beta 33 is up now: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases
Pretty huge change log: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/refs/heads/main/change-log.txt