Using Vero4k+
In Settings > player > subtitles, I have set subtitles to a yellow colour
but subtitles always play in white.
Subtitles are embedded in mkv files that I download.
Is there some other place to adjust subtitle colour?
Are they soft subtitles? Otherwise color can not be changed.
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Do you mean that they are not “hard-coded”?
No, they are not hard-coded.
They can be turned on and disabled.
To expand a bit on what fzinken posted, there is quite a few different types of subtitles/closed caption formats. Some are image based and can’t be modified trivially or on the fly in Kodi. Non image based subs will normally take on the settings, including color, set in that settings screen. Some will have formatting set in the sub file and to get those to take on your preference you will need to select the “override subtitle styles” option in that settings screen.
If you have subs that don’t take on the color you want the quickest and easiest option it probably to install the opensubtitles.com (not .org as that requires payment) add-on and then use the download option in the subtitle settings screen during playback to grab a new subtitle file. You can also manually at any point download a subtitle from somewhere (ie opensubtitles in your PC’s web browser) and then save it next to your video file using the exact same base file name as the video. Kodi will normally load an external sub, if present, preferentially to an embedded one.
He was referring to to something like a vobsub (from a disk rip) or an embedded closed caption that is hidden between frames of the video. They are more of an image overlay as opposed to a burnt-in sub.
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