Subtitles stop auto-reopening after upgrade to 3.0.2

[depesz]

I have a laptop wit some windows (7 I believe) that I use as source for projector. It's taking video files over mounted samba share.

I am currently using 2.2.8 and all works OK (well, there are some problems with video, but they are irrelevant for me).

Due to some talk, I upgraded to 3.0.2 and it stopped auto-opening subtitles. I have to go to subtitle menu, and click "add subtitle file" and then it works. Names for subtitle files are the same as video file, but with .txt extension.

I checked, on the same videos on 2.2.8, and it works OK.

So - am I missing something? Should I change/set something so that it will auto-open the subtitles?

[Lotesdelere]

I think automatic opening of TXT files has been removed.
You should use regular subtitles files, e.g. .SRT files.

[depesz]

Well, converting the files *is* an option, though I'd prefer something easier.

Given that I can open the subtitle manually, it seems that there is still support for reading them and guessing internal format. Is it literally not possible to get it to load automatically?

[pitt66]

IMHO, wrong design decision - people do use .txt and will switch over to a different player thinking that VLC is buggy because it cannot load subtitles.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

People also use .txt for what it's meant: plain text. Matching it as subtitle format leads to a lot of false positives.

[mederi]

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 86#p482486