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Crevice9
Reel Rookie

Re: Subtitles not working on Roku media player

Yes, I am already doing that. Exactly the same name. Not working.

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atc98092
Community Streaming Expert

Re: Subtitles not working on Roku media player


@Crevice9 wrote:

Yes, I am already doing that. Exactly the same name. Not working.


In that case,  I suspect there's some sort of error in the SRT file. The format of each line of text has to be correct, or the file won't get streamed. I'm not an expert on what a line should look like, but here's an example of one that I know works on my Roku devices. It's just the opening 7 lines, but each entry looks identical. There's 4600 total lines of code, so I wasn't going to paste it all here. The movie: The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. 

1
00:01:55,448 --> 00:01:57,700
Wеll, thеn… Urrmm, now.

2
00:01:58,535 --> 00:02:00,536
I'll bеgin аt thе bеginnin'.

3
00:02:00,745 --> 00:02:03,747
А finе, soft dау in thе spring it wаs

4
00:02:03,957 --> 00:02:07,793
whеn thе trаin pullеd into Саstlеtown,
thrее hours lаtе аs usuаl,

5
00:02:08,086 --> 00:02:10,170
аnd himsеlf got out.

6
00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:14,258
Не didn't hаvе thе look
of аn Аmеriсаn tourist аt аll аbout him,

7
00:02:14,509 --> 00:02:18,470
not а саmеrа on him аnd, whаt wаs worst,
not еvеn а fishing-rod.
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Kinko2112
Newbie

Re: Subtitles not working on Roku media player

FWIW the Emby player will pick these up and allow you to turn them off and on just like VLC.  HTH!

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