How to put subtitles to a mkv file

[donpato]

Hello

I downloaded a couple of movies in mkv format and I am trying to put spanish subitles.

I downloaded the spanish subtitles srt file from subtitles.org

I have been trying to use mkvmerge GUI whic seems a pretty straight forward, I just add the subtitles track and then Start Muxing into a new mkv file with a different name, I do not get any warnings or error messages, the program finishes doing it work.

But when I play the movie, the spanish subtitles do not appear.

Please I would kindly ask for any help

Best Regards

Patricio

[poisondeathray]

What media player are you using?

Do you have directvobsub installed? If you do, just right click the icon and it should display a list of subtitles

You might have to rename the .srt file to the same name as the movie file before including in the .mkv file

[donpato]

What media player are you using?

Do you have directvobsub installed? If you do, just right click the icon and it should display a list of subtitles

You might have to rename the .srt file to the same name as the movie file before including in the .mkv file

Poisondeathray, I tried Windows Media Player and VLC Media player, neither showed the spanish subtitles.


Followed your advice, renamed thr .srt file and installed directvobsub. With VLC Media player I finnally could see the subtitles after the right click thing.

Funny thing is that after installing directvobsub I could no longer play the mkv file with Windows Media Plater.

Thanks for your help.