Sony blu-ray player & Sharp Aquos questions

[EwaY83]

Hi, so I have a Sony blu-ray player (BDP-S370) and a Sharp Aquos LCD television (LC 46LE540U). I hooked up a LaCie external hard drive to them.

If I play a movie (.MP4 1080 widescreen file) directly from the TV USB port, the file goes full screen for some reason. And, if I push the CC button, it activates the subtitle file (.srt file in the same folder) and it's working well.

If I play the same movie from the blu-ray player USB port, the files stays widescreen (which is better), but I can't activate the subtitles.

Any ideas why the file goes full screen on the TV? (TV lets me go normal full screen, stretched and zoomed only), and how to correct that, cause I already know I can't play .srt files on the blu-ray player, and I don't want to convert the file or embed any subtitles in it.

P.S. Did not know where to put it on the forum.

Thanks!

[fritzi93]

Onboard TV media players can be picky. You could try putting your video in MKV container with selectable .srt sub muxed in. I can confirm that will play correctly on my Sharp 70LE640U from external hard drive. Hitting the CC button on remote displays the sub stream.

[johns0]

If you don't want to embed the subtitle then you won't be able to see any subs on the sony blu-ray player thru usb,it only takes a few minutes to merge a srt with mkvmerge.

If the movie goes full screen on your tv through its usb then you need to go to the tv screen settings and see if there is a wide mode you can turn off.

[fritzi93]

It seems the 46LE540U is a 2012 model, as is my 70LE640U.

When playing from USB, the only View Options are Auto and Original. (HDMI and Component inputs offer Stretch, Dot by Dot, S. Stretch, and Zoom). Toggling between Auto and Original makes no difference with my files, but perhaps the OP should try toggling between the two.

I never crop my MKVs, but I made one to see if that could replicate the OP's problem. Nope. I can't think at the moment of anything that would cause the problem besides the file itself.

[johns0]

The op says the file plays properly without subtitles on his blu-ray so its a tv issue,not file.

[fritzi93]

Okay, I phrased that wrongly. As I said in my first reply, onboard media players are picky. I don't think it's a display settings problem as such.

Anyway, if playing via the standalone player is satisfactory, it's easy enough to mux in the subs.