Re: iTunes & DivX (re-hash, i know)

On Wed, 16 May 2007 06:26:42 +0100,
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Crashed five times on me while watching a DVD yesterday. Poo, but
better at subtitles than DVDplayer.

Really? I read the VLC manual on subtitles and decided that it was far
too complicated for me to be willing to try to work out what the hell
the manual was talking about. I've no idea at all how to get subtitles
with VLC, but it's dead easy with DVDPlayer.

In VLC, if you're playing a DVD with subs, then it's just a matter of
picking them off the Video/Subtitles Track submenu.

Is it now? Well, I've enough trouble trying to figure out how to get
VLC to play DVDs at all

Stick a DVD in the slot, then File/Open Disk (or press cmd-d) and
choose DVD.

that I don't relish fiddling around to `just
picking them off' like that, whatever that means. I assume I have to
find and select a file?

Absolutely not. First start playing a DVD which is known to contain
subtitles.

Then go to the Video menu, and go down to the Subtitles Track submenu,
and select whichever subtitles track seems most useful. I usually go
for "English", myself, being lazy like.

If you've got seperate subtitles in a text file - .srt, .sub, whatever
- and it's the same name as the movie file (except extension),

... whatever name *that* might be. How can one tell? There's loads of
files on a typical DVD and I've never had a clue what any of 'em are
for, nor have I ever been able to find out.

Sorry, I missed a bit. I've now stopped talking about DVDs, and am now
talking about movie files - mpg, avi, mov and the like.

Yeah, right. If you know what's what, maybe that *is* possible - but
if, like me, you don't? Well, the docs are useless, aren't they?

Never touched 'em guv. I just looked through the menus.

No, I think I'll stick with software that has been developed for people
to use. DVD Player for me.

I remember why I wasn't using that now - the Chinese DVD had no audio,
according to DVD Player. According to every other player software in
the house, Mac and Windows and Linux, it certainly did.

And it turns out that VLC has much better aliasing on the subtitles
than DVD Player, too.

Cheers - Jaimie
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