Starlionblue 80 Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 No matter what I do, I can't seem to get subtitles working with LAV splitter. I used to use Haali so this is all a bit new to me, but at this point I think I've digested half a dozen tutorials without it helping much. I have uninstalled all codecs on my system, rebooted and reinstalled LAV. I have set preferred language to "eng" and subtitles to "advanced" and *:eng" (also tried "normal"). If I press * during playback in MBT it even shows me there are two streams (subtitles or non) and allows me to select either. No subtitles in MBC either. I know LAV splitter is doing something because when playback starts the system tray icon appears. If I run the file in VLC I do get subtitles, so I know that works... Any help appreciated.
AdrianW 1054 Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 Try installing xy-VSFilter - that's what I did and I have both internal and external subs working.
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 27, 2014 Author Posted March 27, 2014 Thanks. That worked a treat! Wonder why LAV was punishing me.
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 (edited) Try installing xy-VSFilter - that's what I did and I have both internal and external subs working. I have this installed and it runs during playback in MBT and I get subtitles. I can't figure out how to turn on subtitles in media Browser Classic. Until I can figure out why MBT won't let me log in on my PC, I have to use Classic and it is a poor experience without subtitles. I need to turn the sound up so loud that it interrupts others in the house. Edited March 27, 2014 by Wayne Luke
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 27, 2014 Author Posted March 27, 2014 (edited) I have this installed and it runs during playback in MBT and I get subtitles. I can't figure out how to turn on subtitles in media Browser Classic. Until I can figure out why MBT won't let me log in on my PC, I have to use Classic and it is a poor experience without subtitles. I need to turn the sound up so loud that it interrupts others in the house. MB Classic uses Windows Media Center, which is 64-bit. You need to install the 64-bit version of xy-VSFilter. I just tried it and it works just like the 32-bit xy-VSFilter fixes subtitles for MBT (which is 32-bit). Edited March 27, 2014 by Starlionblue
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 27, 2014 Author Posted March 27, 2014 This link explains all you need :-) Thanks! That's perfect. The one thing I'll add to that guide is that you need to install both 32 and 64-bit versions of xy-VSFilter, since you need 32-bit for MBT and 64-bit with MBC. Feature request then would be to have MBT and MBC fix all that stuff on installation.
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 Still having issues actually, and the behavior is identical in MBT and MBC. Internal subs work if I set LAV Splitter to "Default" and install xy-VSFilter for both 32 and 64-bit. External subs (.srt files) do not.
Deihmos 154 Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 lav can't do external subs. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
Deihmos 154 Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) delete Edited March 28, 2014 by Deihmos
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) lav can't do external subs but VA filter should be able to. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Thx. I know it doesn't do externals. That's why I'm loading xy-VSFilter. Do you have a link for VA filter? Because it seems clear to me now that xy-VSFilter is not starting. The green arrow never shows up. Edited March 28, 2014 by Starlionblue
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) The plot thickens. I tried another movie with external subtitles, and that worked. So I tried some formats. MKV works with external subs. MPEG-4 video stream in an AVI works with one file but not with another. I tried the one that didn't work in VLC and the subs are picked up. Maybe it's just that file... Hmpf... MediaInfo data below. General Complete name : S:\Movies\Feature Films\Space Battleship Yamato\Space Battleship Yamato.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format profile : OpenDML File size : 2.19 GiB Duration : 2h 18mn Overall bit rate : 2 260 Kbps Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release Video ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5 Format settings, BVOP : 2 Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : DX50 Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5 Duration : 2h 18mn Bit rate : 1 992 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 536 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.121 Stream size : 1.93 GiB (88%) Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01) Audio ID : 1 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : 2000 Duration : 2h 18mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 256 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 254 MiB (11%) Alignment : Split accross interleaves Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame) Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms Edited March 28, 2014 by Starlionblue
Deihmos 154 Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) Starlionblue, on 27 Mar 2014 - 11:22 PM, said:Thx. I know it doesn't do externals. That's why I'm loading xy-VSFilter. Do you have a link for VA filter? Because it seems clear to me now that xy-VSFilter is not starting. The green arrow never shows up. Sorry that was auto correct. I don't use lav and xy in MBC. I just tried MBT and did not get external subs to work at all. Turns out it does not support it so I don't see the point of installing xy, Edited March 28, 2014 by Deihmos
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) All working now except the one that doesn't. I did run into an interesting one. I have The Hunt for Red October with subs only for Russian parts. In Windows Media Player (which is 32-bit), it works fine. In MB Classic (which is 64-bit), it works fine. In MB Theater I get English subtitles for English parts, but no subs for the Russian bits! It's like the whole thing is reversed. I give up. Edited March 28, 2014 by Starlionblue
AdrianW 1054 Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 For your misbehaving avi file - try muxing it into an mkv container, I'm pretty confident that will work. Get mkvtoolnix Open mkvmerge Drag in your avi Click "Start muxing"
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Posted March 28, 2014 For your misbehaving avi file - try muxing it into an mkv container, I'm pretty confident that will work. Get mkvtoolnix Open mkvmerge Drag in your avi Click "Start muxing" Thanks for that. It has now "muxed" away and "everything was fine" as per mkvtoolnix, but xy-VSFilter still doesn't fire up with the new file. VLC shows the subs for the new file. No big deal. I don't really like that movie. But this is bugging me...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 28, 2014 Posted March 28, 2014 You can use MKVMerge to throw the subtitle files into the container as well.
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