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Posted: **01 Dec 2015 12:54**

Hi there,
Sorry if this has already been addressed.. i'm slightly over-reaching my technical ability and i may have mis-searched.. (though i have been looking).

I have a tv-headEnd server broadcasting a stream which i embed in a webpage with subtitles enabled. I came up with / discovered the following html which has worked fine up until 2.2.1 (it works in 2.2.0 at the very least) and i can't work out what im doing wrong.

The html is quite simple and looks like this:

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<html>
  <head>
    <title>VLC WebPlayer Start Subtitles and Mute Video on page load</title>
      <script type="text/javascript">
       
      function subtitles() {
      var vlc = document.getElementById("vlc");
      vlc.subtitle.track='505';
      vlc.video.deinterlace.enable("blend")
      }

      function start(){
          timeout = setTimeout(subtitles,1000);
      }
      </script>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#000000" onload=start()>
    <object classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921" codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab" width="100%" height="100%" id="vlc" events="True">
      <param name="Src" value="http://username:password@hostname:9981/playlist/channelid/33" />
      <param name="ShowDisplay" value="False" />
      <param name="AutoLoop" value="False" />
      <param name="Controls" value="False" />
      <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
    </object>
  </body>
</html>

Can anyone advise if it's simply my bad code which no longer works, or if this might be a bug in the latest (the the current nightly of 2.2.2) version, or possibly even a deprecated function? I'm thinking it's going to be my code.. but.. i'm stuck!

The timeout line was added because the plugin was prone to loading a black screen without it and that seemed to cause a refresh of the display and made it work.

Thanks in advance of any help and sorry if i'm in the wrong place or duplicating an existing post!!

Posted: **01 Dec 2015 12:57**

actually forgot to describe my issue! LOL

So, the subtitles aren't appearing. But, if i downgrade VLC from 2.2.1 to 2.2.0 they work fine.
The F12 debugger in internet explorer gives me an "Invalid procedure call or argument" on the

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vlc.subtitle.track='505';

line.

Thanks!

Posted: **01 Dec 2015 16:56**

The plugin no longer uses the original subtitle PID. It uses an array index.

Example:

0 = Subtitle disabled
1 = First available subtitle
2 = Second available subtitle
...

This should work:

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vlc.subtitle.track = 1;

Posted: **02 Dec 2015 10:20**

Ahh, you genius. Thank-you so much!

That was exactly my problem. I owe you a virtual beer @da2424

Posted: **02 Dec 2015 12:21**

No problem

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