Need help with *.txt subtitles

[Klutz]

Hello guys, It's my first post on this forum but have been a frequent visitor over the last few months...Anyways thanks to the sticky i finally figured out how to change audio language and turn the subtitles on/off when playing *.ogm files, but i still have a major problem.

I got my hands on the "spirited away" movie but I can't figure out how to make *.txt subtitle files to work. I have installed vobsub and VSfilter, but that's not what i need here, is it? vobsub doesnt support this file format and vsfilter is only for "softsubs" right? I have tried placing the *.txt files in the same directory as the movie files, and playing the movie with both media player 9 and Zoom player, but no luck so far....any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Skywalka]

I might be wrong but you could try specifying the txt file directly in your player ("Load subtitles") - some players support this.

VobSub also has a properties when you right click the green arrow in the systray - it lets you specify the subtitle file too in one of the tabs.

If this doesn't help wait for wahaha to answer, he stops by every day and this way I'll learn something new too ^_^

[wahaha]

I got my hands on the "spirited away" movie but I can't figure out how to make *.txt subtitle files to work. I have installed vobsub and VSfilter, but that's not what i need here, is it?

Well, it probably is.

The file-extension is only there to tell the programs that they should "do whatever they're there for" with that file, which is why, for example, ogm-files play fine even when having the extension ".avi", since they're then still opened with a program that plays videos.

Thus, assuming that your .txt-files are actually normal files with subtitles, it's enough to change their name to, for example, "exact name of video file.srt", to make vobsub try to load and display them.

If they don't show up despite of having them renamed, please post the first couple of lines (~5-10) from the file, so that we can see whether it's a possibly valid subtitle-format or not.

@Skywalka: Today's lesson: Get your extensions straight *evil laugh here*

[Guest]

Yay it works! It's bullet proof too, even the winamp player eats it

Thanks alot wahaha!

I guess I learned something new too Skywalka

[Klutz]

Argh, I thought I told the damn thing to log in automatically, anyways the guy above is me hehe...thx again

[Skywalka]

Happens to me all the time

Yeah I guess simply changing the file extension is an easier way to tell the filter to load stuff Told you wahaha knows it all. Wisecracking little ****** that he is *grins* ^^;;;