Front Row Subtitles

[LuKreme]

On 18-Feb-2008, at 05:23, Jared Earle wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 12:17 PM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> On 18-Feb-2008, at 02:41, Jared Earle wrote:
>>> Are you running Perian?
>>
>> I don't believe so.  I have installed various codecs, but I don't
>> think I used perian's versions.  However, it was quite a long while
>> ago that I installed the codecs.  The codecs installed are:
>
> If you're using MKVs, you really should be using Perian. Admittedly,
> most of the use I have for it is converting MKVs to MP4s without
> re-encoding,

What are you using to strip the mkv wrapper and does it preserver  
subtitle tracks? Or are you making .srt files? Or (egads) just  
stripping the subs?

> but it works nicely. If you can get the MKV subs working
> in Quicktime Player with Perian, then you know it's merely a Front Row
> deficiency.
>
> ps. MKVs suck. Just thought I'd mention it. ;)

Well, yes I am familiar with the religious wars, but the mostly come  
down to "some people making mkvs are real asshats" and since that is  
not the fault of the mkv... but almost any HD content you find now  
seems to be in mkv.  I don't especially care since VLC manages it all  
fine, but in this case I wanted to use Front Row and show the subtitles.

The advantage to an mkv container over a avi is multiple tracks and  
multiple subtitles where avi can't even support a single subtitle  
track.  So, lots of anime mkvs (dual language, multi-language subs).

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