[vlc] Re: No subtitles on WinXP

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 23 June 2003 21:48, John Donners wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using VLC to watch some videos in Windows XP. They are movies 
> contained in the ogm format, produced with ffmpeg for video and ogg for 
> audio. I also have two subtitle formats: microDVD and subrip. I can 
> watch the movie in VLC on Windows XP, but whatever I do, I cannot get 
> any subtitles. I use the new vlc-0.6.0. I changed the font-file, changed 
> the type of subtitles in the option menu to the right one, changed the 
> position of the subtitles, tried both subtitle files. Nothing works. As 
> I look at the message window, I don't see any message related to the 
> subtitle decoder (spudec). As I play the file in Linux with mplayer, the 
> (microDVD) subtitles work fine. However, I want to be able to play them 
> on a Windows platform. Does anybody have any idea what the problem could 
be?
> 

External subtitle files only work with AVI files for now (as said in the 
tooltip of the subtitles option in the gui). Ogg/ogm files can contain 
embeded subtitles though and this method is supported by VLC.

Regards,

--
Gildas

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