How to choose subtitles via OSD (1 Viewer)

[Zappza]

Hi!
I want to be able to choose if I want to enable subtitles, and if which subtitles to use by using the OSD in MediaPortal.
As of today I have enabled the Subtitles filter in ffdshow. This makes the subtitles show, but this is not ideal, as I can't choose which subtitles to use, and I can't disable them either.

Almost all of my subtitles are located in a dedicated folder ( \\server\videos\subtitles\ ) while the movies are located in ( \\server\videos\movies\ ). How can I make this work? I get the OSD if I play an .mkv file or any other container that has subtitles embedded.

The subtitles are a mix of both .srt and .idx/.sub files. Mostly .srt.

Thanks a lot for all help!

 

[Furetto]

Not sure this answers your question, but the way I did this was to have all subtitles in the same directory as the movie file, with the exact same filename.

On the quest to discover how to display them, I found UserGuides/codecs and containers - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation and downloaded vobsub (now apparently renamed to vsfilter, will need to check it ou).

Then either use the appropriate keyboard shortcut 'L' ( see KeyboardShortcuts My Videos - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation ) or a button on your remote to cycle through subtitles.

 

[Zappza]

Yeah, I know it works if i have all subtitles in the same folder, but I don't want this as my movies are sorted in folders (a-z) and if each movie has its own file there, it soon gets messy in Windows Explorer with 400+ movies.

 

[alexchini]

Hi!
I want to be able to choose if I want to enable subtitles, and if which subtitles to use by using the OSD in MediaPortal.
As of today I have enabled the Subtitles filter in ffdshow. This makes the subtitles show, but this is not ideal, as I can't choose which subtitles to use, and I can't disable them either.

Almost all of my subtitles are located in a dedicated folder ( \\server\videos\subtitles\ ) while the movies are located in ( \\server\videos\movies\ ). How can I make this work? I get the OSD if I play an .mkv file or any other container that has subtitles embedded.

The subtitles are a mix of both .srt and .idx/.sub files. Mostly .srt.

Thanks a lot for all help!

I had same problem but i didn't found the answer around this forum probably i did not search well anyway i post here my solution:

1) Install DirectVobsub codec (2.38 is the last version u can find it also in the SAF installation here in the forum)

2) put all ur subtitles files in the same folder of ur video files (anyway the codec can be configured to check files in several folders) and name them with this form logic:

myvideo.english.srt
myvideo.italian.srt
myvideo.french.srt


where myvideo is the name of ur video file of course
U can add as many subtitles u like with the same format.

3) now u can select with the info menu osd of the video plugin ur subtitles.
In the menu selection under subtitles u will find english,italian and french.
U can switch between them also clicking on the yellow key of the remote (not sure if it work with all remotes) or with the L key of the keyboard.