[mythtv-users] MythVideo 'playcommand' to turn subtitles on?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Nicholas Fasano <nfasano at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> There was a bug refered to on list a short time ago related to the
>> naming of the srt file. Something to do with . in the name, IIRC you
>> only want one . in the srt filename, and thats the . immediately
>> before srt
>>
>> so the.shining.srt will not work, but the_shining.srt will.
>>
>> But check the archives.
>
> Yes, I'm well aware of that bug since I read this list regularly.  Like I said, my files are named appropriately and it still definitely doesn't work.  Can anyone verify that srt subtitles actually work on their .22 system so I can tell whether this is a bug or something messed up with my system?  I'm highly favoring the former, since it happens on both my combined FE/BE and remote FE and I read/search the lists before I post.
>
> Actually, I've just done some further testing and it seems that when I play any mkv file in MythVideo, keyboard input is suppressed for some reason.  Even all the other keys besides "T" fail to function.  "M" doesn't bring up the menu and even "Esc" doesn't exit out of the movie.  This leads me to believe that this is a bug with keyboard input when playing matroska's in MythVideo.  The strange thing is that the remote buttons DO still work, but I just haven't bound a remote button to the "T" key yet (since the key itself doesn't seem to work).  If I'm correct, if I bind a remote button to "T" in MythVideo, it should overcome this strange bug and work properly.  I'll post my findings later this evening.
>

Off the wall suggestion: you don't have an entry prescribing a
different player for .mkv files do you? ie its not playing with
mplayer, or xine or something?