How do I mount subtitles onto movies for PHILIPS DVP 642?

[sangyool]

How would I go about burning subtitle files on to a CDR with a AVI file?

I have tried to burn them just onto the main directory, but the subtitle file does not show up as a subtitle file on the dvd player.

Thanks for the read.

[Baldrick]

what type of subs? srt? sub/idx?
have you tried named the subs the same name as the video, like video.avi and video.srt

read
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=242233&highlight=642+subtitles

[catdaddio6]

put your .srrt file and movie in the same folder,,use the menu and pick the srt file first then pick the movie

[canadateck]

I had to upgrade my firmware for .srt subs to work,so if they dont work maybe you need to upgrade the firmware.

[acid63]

I do have a Philips DVP 642/17 player and I was struggling to make it show the subtitles. I have read several forums and several threads which were related to subtitle problem. I have tried vobsup (xxx.sub.cc.raw/idx/sub), subrip (.srt), and subtitle workshop to create .srt files. None of them has worked. Here is the comprehensive summary of suggested solutions that I have found and compiled. I have found one solution as the combination of two methods.

1) Upgrading firmware. I have successfully upgraded my firm to the latest version (from 0531 to 1109. This upgrade did not solve my problem. I did get the little green like box around .srt file as a text. I couldn’t choose it as divx subtitle. I always get the hand on the upper left corner. Similarly, .sub files from subrip appeared as, mpeg2 file and remote did not work to select them as subtitles.
2) Another method suggested was the following: First highlight the subtitle file and do not press OK. Instead, press subtitle button on the remote. It should say “divx sub title selected” on the screen, then select the movie file and play it. I tried it (firmware version 1109) and it did not work.
3) Rename the subtitle file to contain less than 12 characters and then the player will recognize it. I did not try this alone. I tried a combination with solution #4 below.
4) Another solution was to put all items, movie and subtitles, in a folder and burn it to CD.

I tried solutions #2 and #4 as combined. I created a folder and named it as the movie name. I have put the subtitle file in that folder. The subtitle file was named exactly as the movie file. I have created another subtitle file and named it as subtitle.srt. I put the CD into the player and played the movie. No subtitle appeared when I pressed the subtitle button on the remote. I got the stop hand. I stopped the movie and went to menu. Opened the folder that I have created and I have applied trick #2. I was able to select the each individual subtitle and I got the message “Divx sub title selected” in each case. Each subtitle file showed up when I am in the play mode. On the other hand, when I applied the trick to get a gray background by pressing menu and when movie plays, then hitting the system menu trick twice did not work. I got the hand again. On the other hand, first selecting the subtitle file as described and then playing the movie by pressing menu button and pressing the system menu twice on the remote after the first frame did the trick. Renaming the file with less than 12 characters or naming it exactly the same way with the movie file did not matter much. Both files worked. In my second attempt, I created a folder and gave it an arbitrary name. I put the subtitle file and the movie file into this folder. Subtitle file was named exactly as the movie file. Applying #2 tricks was successful. I got the subtitles. I use Nero burning software. Subtitle files are .srt files created with subrip and saved as ASCI-II (text file) after editing with MS Word. Later, I opened them with subtitle workshop and did the file splitting and time adjustment. I saved them as subrip .srt files. I do not think that it would make any difference whether you create .srt files either with subrip or subtitle workshop. Latter is convenient and easy to use.
Third experiment was to test idx/sub subtitles. I burnt a CD from the movie and the subtitle files (cc.sub.raw/idx/sub). Subtitle files were named exactly as the movie files. Player recognized only one file as mpeg 2 and I did not get any luck. I have created another CD from the same subtitle files and the movie. This time I have put them into a folder and burnt the CD. Subtitles did not work. The subtitle file was again recognized as mpeg 2. I did find some information how to convert subrip files to .srt. Below is the two ways explained. In my opinion, the player is not recognizing .idx file which is necessary to time stamp and play the OCR image sub file.


1) In subrip select Open VOB, Open IFO and select the .idx. Complete the optical recognition and save the file as .srt.
2) Look in the directory where VobSub is installed for an .exe file which is called "Subresync." Double-click that to run the program, and you can use Subresync to convert your sub-idx files to srt format.

I have converted the subtitles to .srt by applying the method 1. I created a folder and I have named it as I wish. I named the subtitle file as I wish. I put the movie and the subtitle file into this folder and burn it to CD with Nero. It worked.

Anyway, it was a challenge for me to get this player to show subtitles. I have seen several people suffering from the same problem. I hope this review will help. I also thank all of the people who shared their experiences and solutions via different forums and threads. I have solved my problem combining methods 2 and 4. Although, I did not test these in the old firmware, I believe it will not make any difference. Here is the summary of the methods that worked for me with Philips DVP 642/17 firmware version 1109.

1) Create a folder. Name is not important.
2) Put your movie and subtitle file (.srt) into this folder.
3) Burn the folder to CD. I used Nero with default settings.
4) Put the CD into the player.
5) When disk loads, select the folder and open it. If movie starts immediately, stop it and go to root menu. Find folder and open it.
6) Select the subtitle file. Do not hit OK. Instead press subtitle button on the remote.
7) Make sure you will see “DIVX sub title selected”.
8) Then select movie and then hit OK or PLAY.
9) You can choose three different subtitle settings by pressing subtitle button and also you can turn subtitles off by pressing several times till subtitle off option appears on the display.
10) If you want to apply change the background to gray setting, then, after item 7 do the following. Select the movie and press menu (not the system menu). Wait till wait and reading file messages disappear and then press system menu button twice after the appearance of the first frame.

[rayray]

Did you burn in ISO mode? only burn in ISO mode, the subtitles can't be read if it is burned in other modes.

[cosma]

u must pickup subtitle with key "subtitle" not OK or play! that is the solution

[acid63]

Default Nero setting burns in ISO mode.

[giannid]

Yes I think it could be a problem of burning it. Make sure to use data mode. If you use nero express, just select make a data CD.

Or else you didn't have a proper .srt file. You can get .srt and .sub files off the internet. This web site has a ton of subtitle files.
http://subtitles.images.o2.cz/

In my opinion, .srt files are better because they go by time whereas .sub files go by frames. So your timing could be way off if your .sub is meant for PAL and your video is NTSC.

If you download a subtitle file you want to make sure it is in sync with your video before burning it. This is when you have to make sure they have the exact same names (e.g. BENJI.avi, BENJI.srt) and that they are in the same folder.

If they are out of sync, you can try to use subrip or subtitle workshop to resync the subtitle file. If the subtitle is in sync with the video file then you can burn them to a CD. On the data CD to be played on your DVP642, they don't have to be named the same like on your computer. It can have more than 8 characters too, however you will only see around 10 of them.

To play it, just highlight the subtitle file you want, click on "subtitle" key on remote, and then select the corresponding video file and hit play or OK.

[samson]

Does anyone lose subtitles after fast forward? My srt seems to disappear if FF it. I dont remember the speed of the FF but it wont come back. Is there a way to get it back?

[matthewmalay]

Use the display button and input the time you want to jump to instead of fowarding or rewinding, I too had that problem when forwarding/rewinding, the subs would usually come back after playing around with the subtitle button but using the display button I've had no problems