Hikaru IchijoSL
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Is there a program that will let me determine what font is being used. Thanks.
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The font is usually (and I say "usually" meaning part of the fonts on the device itself by default) chosen by the media player you're using to play the video file. For example, here's what the subtitle options dialogue looks like for me with MPC-HC (note that I use plain old Arial for most everything but I can change it to whatever I want meaning it'll allow me to choose any font I have installed on my Windows 7 machine):
Having said that and showing my own options, it IS possible that a video file will have embedded fonts that are called upon by the subtitle stream itself - if you use a utility called mkvtoolnix you might be able to extract the embedded fonts to get some idea of what those custom embedded ones might be if there are some inside a particular video file. mkvtoolnix might have "mkv" in the name of the utility but it can look inside MKV, MP4, and MPV containers as well, might even be able to look into OGG and AVI but I can't say that for 100% certainty.
Having said that and showing my own options, it IS possible that a video file will have embedded fonts that are called upon by the subtitle stream itself - if you use a utility called mkvtoolnix you might be able to extract the embedded fonts to get some idea of what those custom embedded ones might be if there are some inside a particular video file. mkvtoolnix might have "mkv" in the name of the utility but it can look inside MKV, MP4, and MPV containers as well, might even be able to look into OGG and AVI but I can't say that for 100% certainty.