Video-Subtitles Track Dimmed

[dddamore]

I have reviewed all postings returned under a search for "subtitle" and don't find my issue addressed. Please forgive me if I missed the answer, and thanks in advance for directing me to a previously posted solution.

I am using VLC v. 0.8.4 on a 15" G4 PowerBook running OS 10.4.4. A few days ago subtitles worked. Now I can't load any subtitles (primarily English .srt files or .sub files for non-English langauge .avi movies). They are neither automatically recognized nor regognized when I attempt to manually select them. I've tried everything I know to do, including discarding preference files and resetting all prefereces from within the Preference menu and establishing an alternate Subtitles folder and directing the search to that file's path.

Upon attempting to load an .avi file and it's associated subtitle file via the Open File... menu the movie begins playing without subtitles and I get the following error message:

main: slave[4] doesn't like DEMUX_GET_TIME -> EOF

Again, the Video-Subtitles Track is dimmed and unusable.

A few days ago all of this worked just fine.

Any help or suggestions will be appreciated