.srt won't work on my Phillips BDP3200/12

[madsboe]

Hi Guys

I've been so lucky to get a Phillips BDP3200/12 Blu-Ray Player for christmas. It works fine in every aspect but one. When playing my .avi videoes from a USB device, the .srt subtitles won't display!

I ran the .avi files on the PC and it displayed the subs fine, so as far as I can determine, the problem lies with the Blu-Ray Player !

Does anyone have the same problem, and does anyone know how to fix this very annoying issue.

I've updatet the software, but that didn't solve the problem .

Please help me someone.

[johns0]

Are the srt imbedded in the avi?If so it won't show on a phillips,you have to have the srt separate along side the movie file,some blu-ray players have to have the srt imbedded in the video to display.

[madsboe]

The .avi and the .srt files are two separate files. They have the same name exept the filetype, and they are located in the same folder. According to you the Phillips player only displays subs in seperate files, so unfortunately my problem is still relevant.

[Baldrick]

You could try AVIAddXSubs . The video and audio wont be reconverted.

[johns0]

Open the srt with subtitle edit and save,the srt might not be in the right setting.

[Ai Haibara]

Are the srt imbedded in the avi?If so it won't show on a phillips,you have to have the srt separate along side the movie file,some blu-ray players have to have the srt imbedded in the video to display.

My older Phillips players have no problem with the AVIs I created with muxed-in .srt streams. They did (or at least my original 642 did) tend to be rather picky about the .srt being in correct format, though (Western/ANSI encoding only, I think, for starters). Of course, that could always be different now, with the Blu-Ray players (like the OP's).

madsboe: Have you tried Baldrick's recommendation of AVIAddXSubs? The AVI/.divx (if your player doesn't recognize .divx-extension files (though it probably should), just rename it to .avi) files it creates probably will work better with the player than the original .srt files.

[gaelsano]

Open the file in a text editor. Click on Save As and set text encoding to ANSI or ISO (Western). Then try to play. Try again with UTF-8 text encoding. Then try to play. Windows (not OS X/Unix/GNU) defaults to saving as anything except Unicode for some reason. That may be causing issues. See if it makes a difference.

[MidnightManiac]

The BDP3200/12 is known to have issues with .srt subtitle playback.

For some strange reason they will gradually run oos for up to a couple of seconds.

Just heard from the Philips support team that they are looking into it, and trying to fix it though.