Subtitle Autodetect not working

[jmhg92]

I have been trying to make VLC autodetect subtitles that are placed inside a "Subs" folder on the video's current directory, but it never works.

I have edited the autodetect path to ".\subtitles, .\subs, .\Subs, .\Subtitles, subs, Subs" and made the fuzziness "1" to detect all the .srt files, but checking the logs it shows:

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main debug: looking for a subtitle file in D:\VIDS\FULL\2012\ main debug: looking for a subtitle file in D:\VIDS\FULL\2012\.\subs main debug: looking for a subtitle file in D:\VIDS\FULL\2012\.\Subs

And when checking the subtitles it hasn't loaded anything.

I am using VLC 3.0.8 on a Windows 10 x64 machine.
VLC is not the default media player and I open the video with the right-click menu option of "Open with VLC".

[unidan]

Hi, how your file is named and how your subtitle file is named ?

[jmhg92]

Hi, how your file is named and how your subtitle file is named ?

When I set the subtitles file name exactly like the video name it works. But why doesn't it work when using different names and a "Subtitle autodetection fuzziness" level of 1 which states "any subtitle file"?

[pudl]

Like jmhg92 said...

Autodetection fuzziness 1 (any subtitle file) only seems to work for the current working directory. It doesn't work for paths specified in autodetection paths. Fuzziness' 2,3, and 4 work for autodetection paths.

Any ideas?

[Hitchhiker]

Like jmhg92 said...

Autodetection fuzziness 1 (any subtitle file) only seems to work for the current working directory. It doesn't work for paths specified in autodetection paths. Fuzziness' 2,3, and 4 work for autodetection paths.

Any ideas?

Can you be a little more specific about what it is you want to do? For example, are you creating a movie to which you want to add subs, or do you want to add subs to an existing movie which has been recorded in a foreign language which you don't understand, or are you hard of hearing and just want to have subs available because you can't understand what actors are saying properly, or some other scenario?

[Alexandros]

I have the same problem. I want VLC to detect automatically any subtitles, that are in the ./subs folder, without the name being the same. I put autodetect fuzziness to "1", but it doesn't seem to search inside the "subtitle autodetection paths". It only works if a subtitle, with any name, is on the same path with the movie. And I have to add subtitle manually, every time I open a move. All the other autodetect fuzziness options 2,3,4 work in the "subtitle autodetection paths". Can you look into it? Thank you.

[Hitchhiker]

Read the post by Merc408 in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/5 ... matically/

[Alexandros]

Ok, I saw the post, but it still is not what I would wish for VlC to do...
When I download a movie it usually comes like this in the Movies Directory Path:

[SUBS]
↳English.srt

Movie Name .mkv
Movie Name.jpg

What I want to do is, when I have the "Autodetect subtitle files" on, the "Subtitle autodetection path" set to .\subs and the "autodetection fuzziness" to 1, to just automatically find, all the files that are in the .\subs folder, whatever their name is and let me chose the one I want in the "Sub Track" option in the VLC SUBTITLE MENU. Now when I put the "autodetection fuzziness" to 2 or 3 and I rename the .srt file in the .\subs folder, same as the movies name, without moving it, it finds it automatically....Why can it be done when "autodetection fuzziness" is set to 1? That's what I would wish for VLC to change in a future update, if possible.

[Hitchhiker]

What I want to do is, when I have the "Autodetect subtitle files" on, the "Subtitle autodetection path" set to .\subs and the "autodetection fuzziness" to 1, to just automatically find, all the files that are in the .\subs folder, whatever their name is and let me chose the one I want in the "Sub Track" option in the VLC SUBTITLE MENU. Now when I put the "autodetection fuzziness" to 2 or 3 and I rename the .srt file in the .\subs folder, same as the movies name, without moving it, it finds it automatically....Why can it be done when "autodetection fuzziness" is set to 1? That's what I would wish for VLC to change in a future update, if possible.

These kind of requests would be better posted to the Feature Requests forum at: https://forum.videolan.org/viewforum.php?f=7

[Alexandros]

Ok, I will do that, Thank you very much.