.SRT Subtitles question to Sony

[Bravia55HX]

Hi,

yes its that subject again your keen to avoid!

firstly why is it that Serviio has stated that .srt subtitles is supported (by Serviio) yet Sony are the only ones that dont have the appropiate profile to display it?,

secondly since i have not used Serviio (yet) i can play my media via DLNA using Windows Media Player, now heres the thing, if i play on my computer media player will play subtitles using DirectVobSub no problem, however if i stream using my BDP-S570 although Windows Media Player shows up in XMB when playing through this the subtitles are not there!,

how can we get the appropiate profile for our Sony Hardware to display .SRT

surely something like DirectVobSub which is only 2.10mb big or something similar can be installed via firmware update to solve all this?

we await your thoughts.

[nick5roo]

AVIAddXSubs.exe special for sony, free to download

[Bravia55HX]

Anything further from the Sony coffers on this?

[joelsnet]

Hi  nick5roo , Can you tell us more how to use this AVIAddXSubs.exe  ?

The only way is to merge avi & srt in single file (embeded) - duplicate all my MOVIES  ? ! ?

Is there another way ?

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[Bravia55HX]

Hi,

i downloaded this and pinned it to the task bar for easy access, open it and follow instuctions, in the file you used there will be another divx file in between your main movie and .srt file, i just dragged and dropped this file to a flash drive and it played perfectly on the tv.

and that was just a dummy run.

[joelsnet]

Thanks Bravia55HX923 ,  but again  -  the outcome is to duplicate all my MOVIES  ? ! ? 

I realize that buying a  SONY  was a big mistake  ! ! !

I checked out  LG  SAMSUNG  and even PANASONIC  works fine  ! ! !

They can show all files (AVI MKV etc...) with HEBREW srt-file subtitles  -  no problem . . .

SONY dont have even the HEBREW FONT so even file-names are not shown  ! ! !

SHAME ON SONY  ! ! !

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[seyhan3g]

Не ми изкарва български субтитри . Някакви символи ми изкарва.

[MovieWorker]

I agree, shame on SONY for not supporting .srt subtitles.

[sletonqu]

The only hope may come from Serviio/HomeStream and especially FFmpeg.

When it will implement the coding of subtitles files in the video, it will be good.

I'm not sure Sony can update firmwares to support srt files...

[Catmambo]

Just been talking about this today actually, we are looking at what we can develop for Homestream. We have just fixed the .jpg 4:4:4 Chroma Subsampling issue, so now you'll be able to stream full quality edited photos to the TV, so this is very much an active development.

No promises, but certainly I'd like to do something here.

thanks