Subtitles Issue > What Player Will Show Them?

[voidhawk]

I'm a newbie here, but I tried to read through the forum posts regarding subtitles, but can't find exactly what I'm looking for. The only movie I have tried is "Moon". It ripped correctly and I got all the appropriate MKV files and they play fine. The multiple audio comes through correctly in any program I use. I can not figure out how to use the subtitles though. The programs I have tried correctly show that they are available, but don't show them or give an error on trying to use it. For example ... VLC gives "No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this." (error shows when opening program and going to the menu to enable them).

Did I do something wrong in the ripping process? Or am I using a bad player? I've tried WMP, XBMC, and VLC.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

~ Voidhawk

[setarip_old]

Hi!

I presumethat, although you didn't state it, you're referring to Blu-Rays. If so, I'd suggest you read the following thread - and most carefully read the initial post to that thread, made by "mike admin", the person in-charge here:

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic ... =808#p2319

[Marc_G]

What would be most helpful for folks with middling level knowledge such as myself is an example walkthrough, step by step, for going from BD disc to playing the subtitles... preferably an example with FORCED subtitles which may have subtle differences in process (?).

This is one of those things I'd love to get working (For forced subtitles only), but I'm so far too lazy so I just play the .iso, much as I hate doing that.

Marc

[mike admin]

This area is rapidly evolving. The code to display blu-ray subtitles is already in ffmpeg and that's the code that most players use. Eventually this problem will go away.

[moviemaniac]

VLC supports PGS subtitles natively and will be able to display them without any tricks or having to rip/convert stuff. However you will have to build it against a fairly recent version of ffmpeg for it to work - the version shipped by most distributions is far too old so you'll have to compile your own.

[MilesAhead]

If you don't have any compiler set up you can try a VLC nightly build:

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/

I just tried today's win32 build. I noticed I could advance the slider of an .mkv file without it crashing. I don't have an .mkv with a pgs sub handy at the moment to try that though.

[ds2249]

If you don't have any compiler set up you can try a VLC nightly build:

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/

I just tried today's win32 build. I noticed I could advance the slider of an .mkv file without it crashing. I don't have an .mkv with a pgs sub handy at the moment to try that though.

Yesterdays nightly build is not able to display PGS subtitles. Just tried.

[voidhawk]

thanks for the updates everyone ... I guess I'll just wait until something is workable without having to do any crazy changes. I like "1 click" solutions to problems

[moviemaniac]

For those of you who want to get it to work (at least on linux compiling your own version against a fairly new ffmpeg works so it should work on windows too), here's two howtos on compiling vlc on windows: http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileCygwin