[scofield272]

When it fails to load, can you hit back to start the video over from the start. I'm almost expecting it will start the subtitles. In that case, I'll know exactly what aspect of the timing is having an issue.

yap , on second time the srt is displayed

Perfect, that means there is too much of a delay between start of video and loading of subtitles.

I have an intentional 1 second delay because prior versions of KODI (think it even still applied to 16.1), there was an issue with if you load the subtitle track too fast, before the video started playing back, it would not load. It wasn't adequate enough to poll the isPlaying and then calling the setSubtitle. You had to wait at least 1 second after the isPlaying returned true to make the call, to ensure it loads.

Seems this needs relooking at.

Should be easy to fix.

you the man!
i look forward to the update