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Can't display subtitles on some movies - OPPO 981HD
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uderman
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Post Posted: May 22, 2009 15:30 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hey there,

I am having problens with some divx movies: their subtitles are not displayed on my OPPO 981HD standalone dvd player. The interesting part is that this only happens to some divx movies.

For example, some simpsons episodes. I have checked this particular file with AVIcodec, and find out it really is a Xvid Mpeg-4 movie, and the audio is MPEG Layer 3 CBR. The subtitles also seens to be ok, on srt format.

Anyone have any idea what is going on? As I said, it only happens to some videos, on most of then I can display the subs. On my dvd player, it reconizes that there is a subtitle there (I have the option of displaying the subtitle), but when I select it, nothing is showed.

Please try to help me, tell me if you need more information!

Regards,

Uderman

INFRATOM
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Post Posted: May 22, 2009 17:03 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
The sub titles on those could be outside of the border ( outside dvd spec ) so dvd cuts it out. On computer it may show.

jman98
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Post Posted: May 22, 2009 17:15 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
It could be what INFRATOM suggests. Also, I have seen some DVD players refuse to play SRT files if there strange control characters in the file or the file was not created on a Windows system. I edited an SRT file on a Unix server once and my DVD player refused to play it until I opened it and saved it under Windows. Windows and Unix use different end of line character sequences and I assume that was the problem.

uderman
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Post Posted: May 22, 2009 17:24 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Well, this video is in 4x3 format, so I maybe the problem is that. But the subtitles don't show at all, they don't get "cuted" on the border of the video. Is there any solution for this?

I know I can re-encode the video with the subs on it, but if there is a simpler solution I would prefer it.

Thank you!

uderman
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Post Posted: May 23, 2009 16:32 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Ok, I am re-encoding the videos with a subtitle filter, but if anyone have a simples solution please let me know. It takes too long to re-encode tons of episodes ieek.gif

Krispy Kritter
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Post Posted: May 26, 2009 10:25 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
What is the format of the movies that don't work. As noted above, if the subtitle files are in srt format and they aren't working, then there is likely something wrong with the files.
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jman98
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Post Posted: May 27, 2009 07:19 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
uderman wrote:
Well, this video is in 4x3 format, so I maybe the problem is that. But the subtitles don't show at all, they don't get "cuted" on the border of the video. Is there any solution for this?

I know I can re-encode the video with the subs on it, but if there is a simpler solution I would prefer it.

Thank you!


4x3 video is NOT the problem. INFRATOM and I both told you 2 possible causes, but you don't seem interested in listening to us, so I'm not going to post any more in this thread. Good luck.

fedocable
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Post Posted: Jul 02, 2009 12:36 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hello. I had just the same problem, and it took me quite a while to find out how to solve it -Oppo support was absolutely useless here. Itīs a firmware thing: the last two official firmware updates completely mess up the displaying of divx subtitles. The solution, then, is to go back to the previous firmware, which works fantastic:
http://www.oppodigital.com/dv981hd/down ... 8-0910.iso
Let me know if this worked for you. Cheers!

fedocable
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Post Posted: Jul 02, 2009 12:39 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hello. I had just the same problem, and it took me quite a while to find out how to solve it -Oppo support was absolutely useless here. Itīs a firmware thing: the last two official firmware updates completely mess up the displaying of divx subtitles. The solution, then, is to go back to the previous firmware, which works fantastic:
http://www.oppodigital.com/dv981hd/down ... 8-0910.iso
Let me know if this worked for you. Cheers!

Krispy Kritter
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Post Posted: Jul 03, 2009 12:01 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Surprising, they are generally very helpful. Did you let Oppo know how you solved the problem? Maybe that will allow them to find and correct the problem quicker.
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fedocable
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Post Posted: Jul 10, 2009 11:02 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Krispy Kritter wrote:
Surprising, they are generally very helpful. Did you let Oppo know how you solved the problem? Maybe that will allow them to find and correct the problem quicker.


I did had a long exchange of emails with the Oppo support, but they didnīt seem to recognize nor the problem nor the solution. For instance, they didnīt know that you can switch between different subtitles (in different languages) while watching a divx movie. They even said that itīs impossible! It is a pitty, since 980 and 981 are both great dvd-players -980 has a worse problem with divx subtitles: it usually "cuts off" the last words of a long subtitle, instead of creating a new line. Strange enough. Anyway, it looks as if they are not supporting the dv-981hd anymore, so... I wonder if new Oppo blu-ray finally manages properly divx subtitles...

pablogiorgin
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Post Posted: Nov 17, 2009 12:14 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hi!
i have the 980 and always "cuts off" cut on srt subtitles.


does anyone manage to solve this downgrading the firmware or so?

Oppo said to me that they wasn't working on that. Ergo: They don't care!

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