Okay so I tried the smallest of these (HK Thin @ almost exactly 5MB) plus a lot of smaller otfs I found elsewhere , one at a time, and while playing they all show nothing - I checked the logs just in case and I'm seeing a lot of [ERR] [30] - "MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Subtitles.SubtitleEditParser: 57 errors encountered while parsing '"srt"' subtitle using the SubRip format parser" , with errors like: "Line # - Error reading time code"
does that mean at this point it's not showing because the srt needs fixing?
Update: so apparently I've been using internal srt all this time π but I tried it with external and this time it still didn't work, but no errors in log. Will keep trying other fonts just in case