Ripping subtitle .srt problem

[maicans]

I'm using LG BD350 Bluray Disc player with USB feature. I'm able to watch the MKV Movie from my usb and SRT subtitle I've downloaded from other subtitle site. But when I use SRT Subtitle that I ripped from MKV by using MKV Toolnix ( MKVextractGUI.exe / with .SRT output) The subtitle doesn't show up on screen. I fix the problem by going back to download the .SRT sub from the internet and put it back into the same folder and it was OK.

Does anyone have any idea how this problem occurred? Or I did something wrong when ripping the sub?

Thanks,

Maicans

[cal_tony]

Without knowing any of the specifics of the subtitle or how you using it, I would say that the subtitle if your using it as an external srt has to have the same name as the mkv. Since you indicated that you have the ripped sub as well as the downloaded one you can run multiple instances of Notepad and compare the two side by side. That should at least get you started with seeing if the srt has a problem.

Tony

[maicans]

I still have problem to playback .mkv move. I've changed the name of .SRT to be the same name as .mkv but I still don't see the subtitle. Again, I'm using LG BD350 Bluray Disc Player with USB hard drive. Here's what I've done to rip the subtitle;


After I extracted the file, I changed the name of .srt to be the same name as .mkv file. When I playbacked the movie, the subtitle still doesn't show up on screen. It happens to every .mkv movie accepts any .mkv movie which I playback with the downloded .srt sub. So, I think I might have done something wrong when I extract the subtitle. Do you have any idea to suggest so I can fix the problem?

Thanks.

[netmask56]

Check the subtitle first in Notepad to see if there is anything obvious then check the sub for errors in Subtitle WorkShop (control I).

[barbouncer]

I also use a the lg blu ray player but i have the BD390. I stream all my movies with my wireless.

But to your problem. I think what you are seeing is the difference between an embedded subtitle and hardcoded subtitle. I can have an mkv and see the subtitles fine on my computer using vlc player, but when I stream them to BD player they are not viewable. In an embedded subtitle, the subs are just options that can be turned on or off using a player. With the BD players that we use, it doesn't have that option and are always off.

So unfortunately ur only option is to remux your .mkv file. You do this by stripping the 3 components audio, video, and subtitles and remuxing them into one file again, except using the option to HARDCODE them into the file. I personally use Ripbot to encode my final product. I am still trying to find the best way to do the stripping. ATM I am playing with mkvtoolnix but I know you can do it with eac3to (i did it with eac3to before reformatting my pc, but cannot for the life of me find the site that showed me how to rip the subtitles.

I know its not exactly the step by step guide you wanted, but it (I believe) is the answer to your question "why doesn't it work" and give you a platform to get the answer. If I find a better more in depth guide, I'll post back

[jman98]

What language is the SRT subtitle in? You need to know that DVD and BluRay players don't support all language sets. If you bought this player outside of your part of the world, say on a vacation trip to America or Europe, and are attempting to use it in Thailand with Thai subs, that character set simply may not be supported. Players sold in the USA typically only support Latin character sets for subtitles and maybe Cyrillic if you are lucky. barbouncer may be correct about your problem, but I did want to point out that we get a lot of people on the forums who buy DVD players in other countries and then find out when they get home that the player won't play their subtitles. It happens all the time in the Middle East when people will buy players in Europe or the USA only to go home and learn that the player doesn't support Arabic characters for subtitles. Finally, this is unusual, but you should also be aware that if subtitles have been created or edited on non-Windows systems, players may refuse to play them because the end of line character is different than what Windows uses and the players all expect subtitle files to be Windows compatible.

[barbouncer]

ok here's what I'm attempting now. I'll let you know when its done muxing how it came out.

1- I used Tsmuxer to demux the audio, video, and subtitles from the .mkv file.
2- I used Suprip to redo the subtitles into a .srt file
3- Use ripbot to mux all back together while burning a permanent subtitle onto the .mkv.

[barbouncer]

btw. worked like a charm. nice subtitles hardcoded into the .mkv file so i can watch streamed on my blu-ray player

[flynike]

ok here's what I'm attempting now. I'll let you know when its done muxing how it came out.

1- I used Tsmuxer to demux the audio, video, and subtitles from the .mkv file.
2- I used Suprip to redo the subtitles into a .srt file
3- Use ripbot to mux all back together while burning a permanent subtitle onto the .mkv.

Hi. I have just registered so that I may thank you for this great information. As a complete newbie (never muxed or remuxed in my life), I was able to hardcode subs into a 1080p mkv file of Tai Chi Hero that I really wanted to watch on my LG blu ray player. Although I had no idea what I was doing, it worked out perfectly with only a little thinking time.

Speaking about time, I mistakenly tried to do this on my home theater PC, with only an atom 1.6 GHz processor. Took 2 days, with other things not working much while it was going on. I will use my quad core master machine next time.

[videobruger]

@barbouncer/flynike

I'm not sure about this but it looks to me as if you'r using an idx/sub subtitle since you are using suprip.

Just wanted to mention that if this is the case you may as well hardcode the the idx/sub with MediaCoder (or something else) and skip the OCR step (As well as the de-muxing in step 1).

[flynike]

@videobruger:

Hi. Nope, I had an srt file, and just did the first and last steps, skipping the middle one. But thanks for the tip for next time.

[videobruger]

@flynike
.. and you're wellcome