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albert_e
Posts: 30
Registered: ‎04-15-2012
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Subtitles + YouTube

Hi,

 

I am watching a TV Series that is completely available on youTube

 

however, I would like to see it with subtitles and these youtube videos dont have any

 

subtitles are separately available online in SRT format

 

currently is use JustSubPlayer on my winXP laptop to overlay these subtitles onscreen in real-time as youtube video plays in the background ,...and I manually sync the video and subs, both at the beginning of the video and evrytime i have to pause

 

i was wondering if WDTV can help me watch these videos on my Tv instead, along with subs

 

any ideas?

 

 

one idea i have is to "download" all these youtube videos (using the DownloadHelper plugin of Firefox) and put them on the hard disk attached to my WDTV live SMP

 

and then place the SRT files with the same filenames in the same folder

 

Not sure if WDTV supports SRT or other subtitle formats as a separate file

 

any idea?

 

thanks in advance!

 

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albert_e
Posts: 30
Registered: ‎04-15-2012
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Re: Subtitles + YouTube

downloaded MP4 from YouTube

 

copied this to the USB HDD attached to the WDTV device

 

put the SRT files with same filenames as the videos in the same folder

 

and the native "Videos" player on WDTV plays them perfectly along with subs

 

problem solved for now

 

do let me know if you have any ideas for this that does not invlve manually downloading each file and copying them to the HDD

 

in other words, can I force it to show a local SRT file as overlay on top of a youtube video?

 

 

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Wizer
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Registered: ‎04-04-2011
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Re: Subtitles + YouTube

WD Does support the subtitles as a separate file

 

The Youtube subtitles are not the players problem though.. This will depend if the subtitles are available on the video you are playing or not.

 

The workaround you use seems to be the right choice

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