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#Subtitles garbled on smplayer install#
#Subtitles garbled on smplayer tv#
#Subtitles garbled on smplayer download#
#Subtitles garbled on smplayer windows#

page up / down: Seek backward/forward 10 minutes.

up / down arrow: Seek backward/forward 1 minute.

left / right arrow: Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.

Z / X: Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second.

+ / -: Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second.

period key: Pause and advance one frame.

SMPlayer uses the same keybindings as MPlayer. The solution was to re-enable subtitles (Subtitles – Subtitle visibility) on the application menu. (Gedit is good for re-encoding text files.) Re-encoding the subtitles file as ISO-8859-15 resolved the issue. One set of subtitles silently failed to load investigating I noticed they were encoded as UTF-16. In General – Audio, I set “High speed playback without altering pitch” to No. In General – General, I set audio to ALSA. On Mandriva 2008.1, SMPlayer failed to work out of the box. Open a terminal and see if the problem persists with mplayer /path/to/file (for a local file) or mplayer dvd:// (for a commercial DVD). Since SMPlayer is a frontend to MPlayer, the first thing I do when debugging a problem is confirm that the problem does not originate with MPlayer.

Playlist – Save copy of playlist on exit: Disable.

Interface – Seeking – Behavior of time slider: Seek to position while dragging.

For me, on some installations it does, but on other installations it breaks playback of commercial DVDs.

Drives – Enable DVD menus: Begin with menus disabled, then experiment to see if this feature works for you.

Drives – Drive selection: Per your hardware (on Linux, this is often /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd).

This method seems that it’s not working properly now, so we switched to the other method (xmlrpc) and now, from svn r5330, smplayer can find subtitles again.

Play the video in SMPlayer and select the vtt subtitle from the menu Subtitles -> Primary track. There are two methods to get the list of available subtitles from, smplayer was using the simplest one. Store the vtt file in the same folder of the video.

General – Preferred audio and subtitles – Subtitles: Your preferred language. An user reported that smplayer couldn’t find subtitles from anymore.

General – Preferred audio and subtitles – Audio: I leave this blank, because I prefer to hear the original audio and use subtitles.

General – Video – Output driver: Per your hardware.

General – General: Pause when minimized: Disable.

Open the preferences (Options – Preferences) and configure as desired.

#Subtitles garbled on smplayer download#

If your distro’s package manager doesn’t have SMPlayer, see the project site’s download page above. You should usually use your distribution’s package manager. Instead, close the installer and launch SMPlayer normally from the menu. Version 0.8.6 will launch SMPlayer as the same administrative user that ran the installer, not as your regular non-privileged user.

#Subtitles garbled on smplayer windows#

Once installed, the Windows installer will offer to launch SMPlayer. Once installed, I set the hidden attribute on the %systemdrive%\Users\USER\.smplayer\ directory. Multiple packages are available for most people, the webdl package is most appropriate.

#Subtitles garbled on smplayer install#

These notes refer to SMPlayer 18.2.2 for Linux, and were last revised 29 February 2020.ĭownload SMPlayer from the project site and install it in the usual manner. Although it uses QT, it is not a KDE application and does not drag in KDE dependencies. Cross-platform, it is available for Linux and Windows. SMPlayer is a QT front-end for MPlayer and my favorite video player. This entry was posted in chromecast, smplayer by rvm. Note: you can actually select a subtitle in srt or any other format in SMPlayer, but the SMPlayer Chromecast Control will try to use a subtitle file with the same name but with the vtt extension.

#Subtitles garbled on smplayer tv#

The subtitles should be displayed on the TV screen. Now connect to Chromecast and start playback as usual.

Select the option Play on Chromecast from the Play menu.

Play the video in SMPlayer and select the vtt subtitle from the menu Subtitles -> Primary track.

Store the vtt file in the same folder of the video.

Or just use any other tool you may find on the Internet. You can convert subtitles in srt format to the vtt format here. First you need to convert the subtitles to vtt.It is there in mplayer/mpv (and by proxy in SMPlayer) since years (AFAIR assigned to keys G and Y by default), so if anyone has any doubts about its usefulness, one can try this feature in there. The subtitles must be in the same folder of the video. To sum this up: instead of syncing via special tools (overwhelming) or constantly pressing +/-, a few keypresses would usually fix the subtitles.However currently there are some limitations: Now SMPlayer 17.3 has just added the possibility to display subtitles on Chromecast (still an experimental feature). SMPlayer 17.1 added support for Chromecast.