Softsubs on strike

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:00 am

I use VLC 0.8.4 for playing just about every video file I have. Yesterday I installed VLC 0.8.5 and updated meGUI, which I hadn't done in three months, give or take a few days. Now, the only player on my computer capable of playing back subtitles is Windows Media Player 10, which we all know sucks eggs (especially with h264 files). The others (which include VLC, reverted to 0.8.4, BSplayer, Mplayer and Media Player Classic) will not display subtitles at all (BSplayer doesn't even let me open the dropdown list for subtitle tracks).

My questions are:

1)WTH?
2)How do I fix it?

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:41 am

It's possible you somehow got your subtitle filter disabled or uninstalled. Try (re-)installing VSFilter(aka. VobSub).

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:46 pm

which one? the regular or the "Unicode" dll?

canikizu · Post by **canikizu** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:54 am

try do both of them, it doesn't take long time to do that. Don't be lazy

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:29 am

Gepetto wrote:which one? the regular or the "Unicode" dll?

If you are running WinXP or 2K, definitely get the Unicode one. It won't hurt, and on some videos, the Japanese characters will show up properly.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:36 am

canikizu wrote:try do both of them, it doesn't take long time to do that. Don't be lazy

I asked in case both worked; which one should I keep?

Sadly, neither the Unicode release nor the regular one did the trick. Also, I did the same VLC version swap in another computer, also running Windows XP and on a similar configuration, and the subtitles worked fine on the very same files. That means it's probably something with meGUI.

With that in mind, I uninstalled meGUI, but it still didn't work. I'm sure I didn't do anything else, so what could be wrong? Maybe meGUI also "updates" my codec files?

But VLC uses internal decoders, no?

I hate this -_-