Subtitle stream help please

[truenorth179]

I have an MP4 file that claims to have a subtitle stream. VLC codec information looks like this:

Stream 2
Codec: txet
Language: English
Type: Subtitle

When VLC 3.0.8 attempts to display these subtitles it displays a dialog box that says;

Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "txet" (No description for this codec)

My guess is that that the codec was coded incorrectly, maybe it should be txt.

Any suggestions?

[Lotesdelere]

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com if it's too long.

Also upload a short sample of an original problematic file to Zippyshare.com (200 MB max) or to WeTransfer.com and then post the link to the file here.
http://www.zippyshare.com
https://wetransfer.com

If needed cut it with DGsplit and read here about how to do it:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=57724&p=193335#p193335
100 MB max should be enough.

[Hitchhiker]

Sounds like it. It shouldn't stop you from adding your own subtitles file though. If that's in .srt format extract the downloaded file to C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions and then launch vlc.

Then click Subtitle ---> Add subtitle file and it should open the path automatically. https://subscene.com/ has a good collection of subtitle files.