How to get attached subs to play in a movie?

[giddyup]

Some of my movie downloads have subs attached separately, quite often named just "English subs" or "English subs forced". If I transfer the movie and the subs (as is) to a flash drive the subs don't tend to play, even if I change the name from 'English subs" to the exact name of the movie. What am I doing wrong?

[carlyai]

Can you try another player? And make sure the audio files are really there.
This is just a guess.

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[Jai Dee]

Moved to AV Forum.

 

/Moved.

[alphason]

What kind of subtitles, most are .srt and need to make sure the file name is the same as the video name and of course that your player upports them.

 

I have a Panasonic smart tv that is very fussy about the subtitles even if they are named the same,  I find the best way is to put the video and subtiles into one .mkv file (assuming your tv/ player plays .mkv) - I use MKVmerge free and easy to use just takes a few minutes to convert and works every time.

[coops]

Most downloads don't come with external subtitles - and if they do they might be under another folder once the download is complete snd unrar'd/unzipped. Are the subtitles under a sub folder called 'english subs' etc? Any even half decent media player should cope with subtitles just fine if the actual subtitle file(s) is named the same as the movie file ( note - you can also add a language identifier to the subtitle... so for a movie called 'movie.mkv' the english srt subtitle should be named 'movie.en.srt' )

 

An actual subtitle file will end with an extension of .srt, or .idx & .sub, or .ssa - the most common are srt or the sub/idx type.

 

Mostly they'll be included in the movie container if it's .mkv or .m4v format, and can be extracted.

 

You can check by going to opensubtitles.org and downloading the subtitle for your movie - it'll usually download the subtitle file as zip file, so unzip it & rename the srt to 'yourmoviename.srt' or 'yourmoviename.en.srt' etc.

 

Make sure subtitle file & movie file are directly under the same folder - so the subtitle is NOT under a separate sub folder.

[giddyup]

Thanks for the info.