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[lukecro]

I've had great luck playing DivX files with MediaCenter (9.088 Beta). Often, with other programs, the DivX player would freeze up with cerain bulky files. And most of them would have serious RAM issues if I had a lot of other programs open. Amazingly, MediaCenter gives me PERFECT playback even when I've got tons of other programs open and my RAM is already low.

Now, here's my question: How do I load subtitle files to play along with the film? Some other DivX players make this very easy to do, but I just can't figure out how I told the subtitle text with MC. Or can I? And if I can't, will this be an option in the finished MC 9? Or am I the only one watching foreign films on my PC?

For instance, I have this text file that is supposed to sync with the playback of a DivX file:

Mamoru.Oshii s.Avalon.DVDivX-EPiC_EN.txt

It contains subtitle data such as this:

{17804}{17928}Solo gets more dangerous|the further you go.
{17935}{18068}Are you sure you don't want to|Join another party ?

My past experiences with this is that the subtitle text can actually be made to appear below the DivX picture during playback, although for various programs you sometimes have to convert the text file to other file-types (i.e., *.sub).

Am I over-looking someinth gin MC9?

thanks,

Luke

[ChicoSelfs]

Use a DirectShow plugin named VobSub http://vobsub.edensrising.com/vobsub.php to use simple put the DivX file in the same folder than the subtitle and with the same name and open the avi file, simple as that

Ex:

Mamoru.Oshii s.Avalon.DVDivX-EPiC_EN.avi
Mamoru.Oshii s.Avalon.DVDivX-EPiC_EN.sub

Don't know if Mamoru.Oshii s.Avalon.DVDivX-EPiC_EN.txt works

[lukecro]

Okay, so I've downloaded Vobsub, as suggested (thanks for the suggestion and link, by the way!).

Vobsub couldn't handle the txt file but I used batlamtossub v12 (a terrific free tool/player -- except that the help files are in Turkish) to convert the .txt into a .sub file which Voxsub could handle.

However, I can't figure out how to make VoxSub interact with MC9. I've got both files in the same folder and they now look like this:

Avalon - DivX - 00 - _Movies_ -.sub
Avalon - DivX - 00 - _Movies_ -.avi

Media Center ignores the sub file and the MC plug-in manager doesn't seem to recognize VoxSub as compatible -- nor Does VoxSub seem to have any way of linking up with MC9 as far as I can tell.

Now, with a progam such as SubViewer 3.063 (free, a little buggy, but pretty good . . . works best when batlamtossub v12 is used to refine/convert/correct the subtitle files first) I can view the movie synched with subtiles with ease. But that's not the point  . ..  the point is that I'd like to see MC9 handle the subtitles. Am I using VoxSub incorrectly? With it, I can load the subtilte file, I can see the sync times, I can tweak, re-combine sub files . . . but for the use I want (as a plug-in that makes MC9 handle the file) I can't make heads-or-tails of the program.

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Wait. I'm an idiot . . .  I set the "Auto load" function to on, rebooted, and now the little arrow is in my task bar and subtitles are perfect and these configurations make sense. Terrific.

VoxSub isn't auto-recognizing the sub file but it allows me to load it manually. (at which point it will place the subtitles up over the video in practically ANY program I'm using, which is cool) One small thing, though: although it presents the option of allowing the text to be displayed BELOW the image, I can't get this to work in MC9 ... the vertical and horzontal padding options seem to have no effect, so when the text is moved too far to the left or right is disappears. However, it's still a nifty program.

Thanks again! VoxSub rocks!