Subtitle issues with with VLC media player for windows

[hecate]

I am just trying to make a custom subtitle for a 20 second .avi file i am playing. I created a subtitle file "MOVIE.srt" and this is what I have in the file

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:20,000
This is a test


So I open up my "MOVIE.avi" file and link the "MOVIE.srt" file to it. When I play the movie no subtitles show up on the screen. Any ideas?

my .srt file is saying display "this is a test" on the screen from second 1 through second 20 of the video right?

[Guest]

enter few empty lines to end, so that "This is a test" is not the last line.

[The DJ]

Save the file as UTF-8 and not as UTF-16

[hecate]

I changed my .srt file to this

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:17,000
This is a test

2
00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000
The End


I tried playing the movie at this point and no subtitles were visible. I then opened up my .srt file in MS Word and changed the encoding to (UTF-8) and saved it. Played the video with "Subtitles text Encoding" setting set to "System default" in the subtitle settings. This did not work either. I then changed the "Subtitles text Encoding" setting to "UTF-8" and played the movie and this did not work either.

I also noticed that even though my movie file is an .avi file the video codec used is "mpgv" and the audio is "mpga". I remember reading in the forum that subtitles do not work with mpeg encoding so i was wondering if this could be an issue

[hecate]

It ended up being the .avi file I had....I used a different one with an "utf-8" encoded .srt file and it worked fine....now to stream it over the network

[The DJ]

Ehm, if you want to stream an avi with a static text, then we have something called the marqueue filter that allows you to do just this.

search for subfilter, sfilter, soverlay (options like that)

[dionoea]

marquee