Front Row Subtitles

[Jared Earle]

On Feb 18, 2008 5:44 PM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> 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).

... but like you say, it doesn't always work. That's a big
disadvantage, especially when coupled with the fact there are an awful
lot of Windows-only MKVs. A container should pretty much force you to
be platform-neutral.

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