Using XBMC via AppleTV, I am able to play avi's with subtitles(srt,sub) when the movie is on a Windows XP shared drive/dir (SMB). When the same exact movie is copied over to my NAS drive, I can view the movie but the subs do not play. Furthermore, I can play the movies with subs off the macs and pc's using Quicktime or VLC without any problems off the NAS drive. Does anyone have any ideas what may be preventing the subs from showing up? Thanks!
davilla Wrote:Welcome to the XBMC forums.
See -> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=43636
Hi Davilla... Thanks for the welcome and I do appreciate the link. Unfortunately, it did not resolve my issue. I don't think this is an issue with xbmc since it plays subs off a shared drive. I feel it is more a problem with my NAS drive and how it is configured. BTW, I also have other media players (DSM-520/320RD) that have the same problem with displaying the subs as well...
Does your NAS support case-sensitive file system? As a test rename your movie to something simple like this:
movie.avi
movie.srt
Krieg Wrote:Does your NAS support case-sensitive file system? As a test rename your movie to something simple like this:
movie.avi
movie.srt
Hi Krieg... I renamed a movie and the srt file to lowercase as suggested. In addition, I refreshed the NAS media directory. Both files appears in lowercase in XBMC and the movie plays fine but with no subtitles
Activate the logs and post the log in a pastebin
In the NAS:
ls -l '/public/media/movies/- Asian Movies/Cyborg Girl/'
(to check filenames and permissions)
And does this happens with all the movies?
Can you try moving the files into a directory with a more simple name? (without the '-'). I do not think this is the problem, but you never know.
Krieg Wrote:In the NAS:
ls -l '/public/media/movies/- Asian Movies/Cyborg Girl/'
(to check filenames and permissions)
And does this happens with all the movies?
Can you try moving the files into a directory with a more simple name? (without the '-'). I do not think this is the problem, but you never know.
NAS-
I moved the files to /public/media/movies/cyborg.girl-cd1
... Movie plays w/o subs.
For all the movies with subs (srt or sub) - Movies play w/o subs. If I access the files using a pc/mac rather than the ATV.. subs are displayed. If I put the same files on a winxp shared dir, xbmc (ATV) plays the movies with subtitles.
File permissions are ok and not locked.
http://pastebin.com/d6af0e725
http://pastebin.com/m2a492f70
I was able to fix my issues with subtitles playing on xbmc (ATV) from a NAS drive and I am posting what has worked for me.
I started off by re-adding my links to my NAS drive. I attached the NAS drive using UPnP as I did before. The video files played as before without subs. No change. Then I added my NAS drive as a SMB share and was able to play my movies with subs without any problems. What I noticed by attaching the NAS a SMB share was that all the files (avi + srt/sub) were displayed and when I access the movies via UPnP, only the avi files were displayed. Apparently the NAS was not receiving the multicast packets from XBMC to allow the NAS to serve the files correctly. This could be because I am using a wireless connection to feed XBMC (ATV). I will try to hardwire my connection to the NAS (ATV <-> NAS) to test and see if the packets are still being dropped or lost the same as a wireless connection.
Anyways, connecting my NAS via SMB has fixed my issues and hopefully will fix others that may have the same type of problem with subtitles not displaying at all.