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SOLVED (more or less) - No embedded subtitles.....

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Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on September 15, 2012, 05:27:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on September 15, 2012, 03:02:09 pm ---I thought that embedded subtitles would be part of the video stream, and wouldn't need some special codec (or at least one other than the codec decoding the signal) for them to appear.

For example, in Hidalgo there are parts where the people are speaking Arabic. Long tracts, so you know it's part of the story and embedded subtitles should be displaying. I think I remember them displaying when I watched it on DVD some years ago. The currect case is files on my computer. VOB files, even, so it should play like a DVD, right?

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Right but it depends on the source of those VOB files and how the hard coded sub was actually embedded.  If the source wasn't region one there is a fair chance that the non english wasn't hard coded.  As such it would behoove you to search for a sub that is non-english parts annotated on Subscene

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Oh. Lame. Thanks, though.

Gray_Area:
I had some success. I re-got Hidalgo (I swear it was the same file set.....), and using WMP classic and the CCCP codec set, I got all the embedded subs. I tried the same movie files with WMP and no go, so it must be like Howard was indicating, hence his suggestion. The simplicity of WMP classic home cinema is appealing, also. Thanks.

Howard_Casto:
Yup... glad it worked for you.  MPC will play anything.  I actually prefer WMP's interface style but the stupid thing doesn't let you tweak codecs anymore... they did away with that around version 10, thus making the program essentially useless for anything but the most basic files. 

I've reluctantly switched completely over to mpc at this point.  It just doesn't make any sense to use wmp for the two or three shows I watch on it that are actually in english.  ;)

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