I can't play it with subtitle

[AguyfromChina]

I opened a video file and loaded its subtitle but it didn't show up on the screen while it was playing. What was the problem at?

Does vlc just have a limited subtitle file formats to support?

The subtitle file I loaded contains subtitle in more than one language, so was that gonna be the problem of showing?

Please help me

[fkuehne]

Provide your subtitle-file-format, etc. pp. You might want to upload it somewhere, so we can have a look at it.

Note that you need to enable the display of subs explictly in the Video-menu.

[Guest]

Initially I tried .srt for 2 times - different subtitle files to same video. And then .idx to the video file I tried with .srt

The .idx showed but it's Japanese. I'm sure there are more than one language compressed in this file. At least it should have Chinese as I downloaded from a Chinese site and the movie's spoken language is Japanese.

Unfortunately I don't have server or hosted site so that I can't upload to you guys. I know this brings a lot of inconvenience for checking on my problem and I'm really sorry. But I will try to figure out a way you could see it as soon as possible

[fkuehne]

Unfortunately I don't have server or hosted site so that I can't upload to you guys. I know this brings a lot of inconvenience for checking on my problem and I'm really sorry. But I will try to figure out a way you could see it as soon as possible

Feel free to upload it to ftp://vthr.videolan.org/incoming/ and post the name of the file here. We'll have a look at it then.

[Guest]

yah..i'm also having this problem...anyway i;m using Fedora Core 5

[Guest]

I have the same problem.

Only some subtitles qre shown and others not.

Changing encoding does not change. Problem win 0.8.4a and 0.8.5.

I have uploaded the srt file (lost[1].216.hdtv-lol.srt)

No idea what the problem is.

[doraimom]

Hey friends.. I'm having a few problems with my subtitles.
1) Subtitles .SRT were not appearing... or written wrong. Solved that by changing the SUBTITLES TEXT ENCODING for VISCII.
2) The subtitle neds to be selected manually EVERYTIME I open VLC. I need to right click on the screen and select SUBTITLE TRACK. I wasn't able to fix this problem so far. Need help on it.
3) When I open VLC from windows MENU everything works if I select the subtitle manually. But If I open VLC by double clicking on a video file, the option SUBTITLE TRACK VANISHES, disappears completly.

I don't know how to fix problems 2) and 3). Can any of you guys help with that?