Subtitles again ... a different story

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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He guys  , i have my WD live PLUS system hooked on my LCD for a few months now ,  all working fine exept one thing : 

the Subtitles ! 

this is my setup :  

WD live plus with HDMI 1.3 cable to my 40 Inch SONY LCD . 

optical out to my DTS surround amp 

USB 320 GB drive 

Network to Router 

1 GB Drive in the network . 

my problem :  

i can play all kinds of video on my LCD with the WD live plus unit , using the USB drive i can use it perfect , when the movies have subtitles ore different audio stream i can choose from them in the option field … so far so good . 

now , 

if i play the same movie (same file ) on the network hard drive the following problem starts :  

i can play the film in the map :  network shares , i have a perfect file with subtitles etc etc , but the film hangs here and there ore stutters .  no good ! 

so i play the film in the Media servers option … now i have perfect video and audio but i can not choose any different audio stream ore any subtitles at all … 

HOW COME ? ? 

Jeroen 

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What you have to ask is does the media sever ‘serve’ subtitles?

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Media servers usually don’t support external subtitles because it isn’t (or wasn’t) part of the DLNA spec.

Your best bet is to use a container like MKV.  E.g. if you have film.AVI and film.SRT, use MKVmerge GUI to mux those files into a single MKV.  

A single MKV with internal subs will work fine from both Network Shares and Media Servers.