[mythtv-users] Internal video player - avi/mkv files + external srt subtitles

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 28 February 2010 12:56, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:
> You have to switch them on by pressing T after the video starts. Alternatively you could enable the option to always show closed captioning but then you'd get that for all your TV shows.
>
> Subtitles come up in the same font as CC and some people have been finding the text pretty small. The dimensions are hardcoded so you may have to apply a change as described here:

Last time I tried to play an AVI file with some .SRT subtitles, I
thought the video was corrupted.

All I got was a black screen.

Mplayer played it fine with the subtitles.

I then deleted the .srt file and mythtv played it with no problem...

Never had good result with .srt and mythtv :(