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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:17 pm Post subject: Need Help With Subtitles
I'm setting up a home network with two of the new 250GB Slims and three new Windows 7 PCs. So far, I have everything set up to flawlessly stream to both Xbox's from either of the three PC's from any room. I think I've already solved my issue with playing videos with ".mkv" containers. Now I'm having an issue with playing ".srt" subtitles for some of the movies. Can anyone give me some advice on this topic? Seems to be a common problem with the 360's reading .srt files. _________________________________________________________
Div Moderator
Joined: Jun 27, 2007 Posts: 1135 Location: Melbourne, Australia XP: 57,060
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:
Didn't think the xbox supported subtitles at all. How did you sort the mkv business?
You can hardcode the subtitles using virtualdub.
You could use PS3 Media Server to stream the film + subtitles from your pc.
Get a decent media player (i know that doesn't help).
Bought a tv recently (samsung) and it plays films straight from usb, supports mkv and subtitles too.
On my tv upstairs i use a WDTV box, cost me £30 and supports subtitles, but not mkv files. There is a more expensive one that supports hd files.
I thought the xbox 360 was a crap media player? _________________________________________________________ Opinions are like arse holes, everybody has one and your's stinks.
Dkoots Moderator
Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 1015 Location: VA XP: 83,430
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:33 am Post subject:
I found a program called XenonMKV that moves ".mkv" files into the ".avi" container without quality loss. it doesn't convert them into ".avi", it simply renames them as ".avi" in order for the Xbox to read them. I'm still working on the subtitle issue. If anyone else has any ideas, I'm more than willing to try them out and return with results.
SN: I already use Avidemux 2.5, so I can hardcode subs with that, but there has to be a solution. Where there's a will, there's a way. _________________________________________________________
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forahobby Administrator
Joined: May 22, 2003 Posts: 23948 Location: NSW, Australia XP: 3,060,914
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:00 am Post subject:
Dkoots wrote:
I found a program called XenonMKV that moves ".mkv" files into the ".avi" container wihtout quality loss. it doesn't convert them into ".avi", it simply renames them as ".avi" in order for the Xbox to read them.
very cool, got a link? I'll google.
I have been converting my MKV files into HD XVID/DIVX files to play on the 360. I wish the xbox 360 could handle mkv containers.. it just sucks. This new XenonMKV is just what im after.
Here's the method i used to convert my movies from MKV to AVI.
Joined: Jul 03, 2004 Posts: 2385 Location: Portugal XP: 368,740
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:26 pm Post subject:
I recommend Gotsent over XenonMkv.
Unfortunately those applications get lot of bugs, some mkv cant be "converted" without bugs which make them unplayable. You will know what I am saying if you start to watch videos on Xbox 360
What it makes is taking off the H264 video stream and the DTS or AC3 audio stream, convert the audio to ACC and mux it with the H264 into a mp4 container.
I havent see a better container than mkv.
As for subs, forget it, they are not supported, the only thing you can is to hardcode them but doing that on H264 takes a lot of time _________________________________________________________
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