DivX player besides the ofiicial player?

[marioval]

Are there any software players besides the official player at divx.com that will play .divx files with support for the chapters and subtitles. I don't really care about the menus. I tried GOM and MPC-HC and they play the files but do not support the subs or chapters. Thanks.

[midders]

VLC Media Player

[TJohns]

VLC Media Player

Are you sure? Doesn't work for me...

Trevor

[Placio74]

Are there any software players besides the official player at divx.com that will play .divx files with support for the chapters and subtitles. ...

No.

However... can view these subtitles (XSUB) in almost any video player based on DirectShow, if 'DivX Media Playback Support' is installed (DivX Demux, DivX Subtitle Decoder, DivX Decoder filters). Subtitles can be turned through 'DivX Settings Manager' from system tray.

[midders]

Are you sure? Doesn't work for me...

I know VLC supports multiple subtitle streams either muxed in the file or as separate files, but I'm not 100% sure on the divx chapters. AVI/DIVX files support subtitles in a variety of formats; if it doesn't work with the format you have, then convert them to a different one (SSA/ASS/SRT etc.).

[jman98]

Are there any software players besides the official player at divx.com that will play .divx files with support for the chapters and subtitles.

The official player does support subtitles? I'm asking because the last time I checked it did not. In fact, that caused me to give up on it and just use VLC if I needed to play Divx on a PC. It wasn't all that long ago, maybe a year or so, that the Divx.com people were essentially saying "We have no idea when, if ever, our player will support subtitles".

[Placio74]

VLC does not (yet) support XSUB.

BTW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX#DivX_Subtitles_.28XSUB.29

These subtitles are not text-based like many other subtitles, instead they are bitmap (digital image) based like vobsub subtitles for DVD-Video are.

This does not always have to be bitmaps, but usually it is so.

The official player does support subtitles? ...

Still imperfectly and only SRT, SSA & ASS (+ muxed XSUB of course).

[porfitron]

The official player does support subtitles? I'm asking because the last time I checked it did not.

DivX Player (which is free with DivX 7) has supported subtitles for a VERY long time. It supports the mentioned Xsubs, but also supports text-based SRT files, which you can associate with the video externally if it's not already muxed into the file. MKV files with SRT subtitles (and mulitple audio tracks) are also supported.

Also, DivX certified hardware players support subtitles, too. For example, the PlayStation 3 can display SRT subs muxed into a DivX/AVI file just fine.

Furthermore, the DivX Plus Web Player supports muxed subtitles in DivX/AVI and DivX Plus HD (MKV/H.264) files.

So just to confirm, yes, DivX Player has support for subtitles, both XSUB and SRT/text-based.