Subtitles? (1 Viewer)

[akhlaq768]

How do i set up the subtitle to be viewed for specific films...

im not sure how and where to place the subtitle files to and how will MediaPortal understand to show them

 

[RoChess]

How do i set up the subtitle to be viewed for specific films...

im not sure how and where to place the subtitle files to and how will MediaPortal understand to show them

You can use multiple ways, the easiest is to give it the *EXACT* same name as your movie, but with a supported subtitle extension (SRT, SUB, etc).

So Movie.Title.Example.2010.avi needs Movie.Title.Example.2010.srt, every space, char has to match, then MediaPortal will use that file to display the subtitles if configuration is set for them (which you adjust via context menu).

If you have multiple subtitles, then just extend those to the name, and you will be able to select them via the context menu. For example Avatar has forced subtitles (unless you know Na'vi language), but also full, so you can use the following:

Avatar [2009].avi
Avatar [2009].srt
Avatar [2009] (All English).srt
Avatar [2009] (Director's Comments).srt​

Then via context menu you can switch between the 3 subtitles, with the "Avatar [2009].srt" one being used by default.

 

[Boiler]

AW: Subtitles?

ok, i have a question regarding subtitles myself., though i'm not sure if it's even MovingPictures related. here's whats happening:

movie and subtitles are in the same folder, for instance

D:\Movies\Avatar contains
- Avatar.avi
- Avatar.srt

what happens is that the subtitles seem to auto-load once the movie plays and can't be turned off. however, via the context menu, i can activate subtitles as well. these subtitles overlay the first subtitles (meaning there are 2 subtitles running at the same time). the latter subtitles can be turned off, but as i said, the first subtitles can't.

any ideas what's going wrong?

 

[RoChess]

Re: AW: Subtitles?

any ideas what's going wrong?

The video probably has subtitles embedded into them. There is no way to turn those on/off, as they have been made a permanent part of the video.

Those are sometimes reffered to as hardsubs, where the subtitles you can turn on/off are called softsubs.

PS: It can also mean you have another subtitle processor working at the same time, for example you are using ffdshow and did not disable the subtitle processor in that one, so it always shows subtitles.

 

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AW: Subtitles?

thanks RoChess!

the video has no subtitles embedded, but your hint about ffdshow got me thinking....i don't use ffdshow to decode MPEG-2 videos so i thought the ffdshow setting wouldn't impact the playback...just to be sure i deactivated subtitles in ffdshow and what do you know? subtitiles are behaving normal now!