WD TV LIVE persistent subtitle issues

[Techflaws]

Of course it's not correct cause subs are supposed to be readable. As listed above this is one of the bugs of the LIVE and it's very annyoing. To verify this please extract a sub from one of those 5% and playback with the sub as external file to see if it makes a difference.

[caveman38]

Thanks Techflaws I shall give it a try.

Edit: I have used MKV Extract and sucessfully removed the subs and just placed them in the same folder. The result is that they are now OK.

Although you guys already know, it is advisable to remove the subs from the MKV otherwise both good and trabsparent subs will appear as options on the WD Live.

I haven't been able to work out how to completely remove the subs from the MKV package using MKV Extract although I can extract them, the original still remains in the package. I therefor have to redo the MKV without the subs so I only have the one I want.

[Techflaws]

Given the time it takes muxing 40 GB MKVs as opposed to switching between internal and external subs I would always keep the subs inside the files so that one day you get a new player that handles them properly or WD fixes the firmware (don't hold your breath) you'll still have all in one file.

[Deputy_Dawg]

I strongly second this with respect to more subtitle options.  Definitely the need for colored fonts in the subtitle.  It is very annoying to view a black and white movie with white fonts.  Should at least have the option to display the subtitle in yellow, similar to Divx player. 

[Techflaws]

The problem is not the white font but the fact that the black outline is missing. If the LIVE would depict the sub properly you would be able to read this white sub even on a black and white movie.

[lucid]

I have the WD TV live with latest firmware 1.02.22_V and my subtitles are white with a black border around them, in the settings I can choose either a thick or thin border around the subs. As far as I'm aware this was fine prior to the latest update also. i mainly use SRT files or ones embedded into MKV container files. I wonder if someone can suggest an encoding software that can burn in subtitles into the picture. I have used AVI demux which seems to support this with SRT files but then crashes. I tried handbrake and that doesn't seem to do it either though i have the already embedded sub selected and burn ticked.

[tomacco]

For some reason my subtitles are off-centered (shifted about 2-2,5cm to the left) and I was wondering if this could be changed somehow.

[Techflaws]

Never experienced this problem, what kind of subs are these? AFAIK you can only change vertical position using the up/down keys on the remote.

@lucid

To save the process of re-encoding (with its inevitable quality loss) use AviAddXSubs to make Vobsubs out of your SRTs and keep them external for proper playback.

[lucid]

"@lucid To save the process of re-encoding (with its inevitable quality loss) use AviAddXSubs to make Vobsubs out of your SRTs and keep them external for proper playback." Thank you techflaws for your reply but i was wondering if you could recommend a software to do exactly that ;-) ie re encode the file (which is an xvid avi) to burn in the srt sub file into the image (as opposed merging it within the container.) This is for a foreign language and i want to burn in the English sub file permanently into the image. Non of the sw i have tried so far has worked. Thanks again.

[Techflaws]

Handbrake should work though I never tried. I have done it successfully with AutoGK (straight from DVD though).