Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

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Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 09 Mar 2018 19:09

After updating to VLC Version 3.0.1 for Apple TV on both my apple tv's 4 and 5 there is no subtitle after selecting one.
When plain a movie using the open subtitle function in VLC player you can select a subtile file, but it doesn't show.
This is already a problem for some time now when will this issue be solved? :cry:
thanks in advanced!

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 12 Mar 2018 18:59

Nobody? :roll:

Or am I the only one with this problem?

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby fkuehne » 13 Mar 2018 11:23

This will be fixed in 3.0.2 this week.
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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 14 Mar 2018 13:46

@ Felix Paul Kuehne

Thank you for your reply! :D

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby ChrisKe » 17 Mar 2018 02:55

Thanks Felix. I’m not seeing 3.02 on the AppleTV App Store yet. Any idea when it will be there?

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 18 Mar 2018 18:10

@ Felix Paul Kuehne

Any progress on the 3.0.2 version? Don't see the update yet?
Thanks in advanced.

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 20 Mar 2018 19:35

@ Felix Paul kuehne

I see that other Version already have 3.0.3.
What does it take so long for the Apple tv?

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 23 Mar 2018 14:33

Please someone fix this problem :(

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 25 Mar 2018 11:43

For whom also has the same problem, if found out a way to solve it.
At least a way that didn't work in a previous version of VLC for Apple TV.

Just place the .srt file in the same directory as your video file and rename it as the name of the video file.
Then when you start VLC on your Apple TV you will automatically see "Track 1" beneath the subtitels.

and now it works :D

Nevertheless a would really want to ask the VLC developer team to solve te problem with the open subtiles not showing when selecting them.

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby rider » 27 Mar 2018 22:56

VLC can't download an read subs from opensubtitels
someone has this problem?

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby fkuehne » 31 Mar 2018 16:20

This issue should be resolved in the current update. Can you confirm?
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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby ChrisKe » 01 Apr 2018 01:03

Hi Felix,

I'm running VLC 3.02 and have an srt file with the same name as the video file in the folder but am still not seeing subtitles. The AppleTV device is running TVOS 11.3.

When I go into the Track Selection menu, I see a link to download from opensubtitles.org but no Track 1 in the subtitles section. Note that the old Elmedia player on the same TVOS devices work perfectly with both the video and the subtitle files - it automatically loads and plays the sub and so that's the way I'm working for the moment.

Happy to do any tests or screenshots or whatever to show you what I'm seeing.

ChrisKe

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby angelicus » 02 Apr 2018 17:50

This issue should be resolved in the current update. Can you confirm?
Yes It Works! thank you very much!

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby Shinxis » 24 Apr 2018 23:14

In the settings, the "Automatically play next item" must be turned ON, otherwise the subtitle file is not loaded.
(Version 3.0.2. on AppleTV 4k, .srt subtitles)

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby katsumunek » 03 Jul 2018 05:51

In the settings, the "Automatically play next item" must be turned ON, otherwise the subtitle file is not loaded.
(Version 3.0.2. on AppleTV 4k, .srt subtitles)
Thank you sooooo much!

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby frakman1 » 27 Jan 2020 02:52

I am on AppleTV 4th Gen tvOS 11.4 with VLC 3.0.6(309) and I have this same issue.

I have the .srt file in the same folder as the .mp4 file.
I have "Automatically Play Next Item" enabled in Settings

Is anyone else seeing this?

When I navigate into the SMB drive with those files, I only see the .mp4 file but not the .srt file in the browser.

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Re: Subtitles not shown on AppleTV 4 and 5

Postby Gromcan » 23 Feb 2022 23:03

In the settings, the "Automatically play next item" must be turned ON, otherwise the subtitle file is not loaded.
(Version 3.0.2. on AppleTV 4k, .srt subtitles)
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This setting should be renamed. I though it has a different meaning.


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