Just got the WD TV LIve Hub up and running. Streaming meadia from a NAS device. Audio and video are fine. In fact, I can change the audio via the ‘audio’ button with no problem. But, when I press the ‘subtitle’ button, it’s as if the button doesn’t work. Nothing is happening. I played around with the settings to automatically put subtitles on when playing…no change. I made sure to play movies both by clicking play while on the VIDEO_TS folder and I also tried selecting one of the individual files within VIDEO_TS. Neither way would allow me to select subtitles. I tried many different movies and still no luck.
FYI…if this wasn’t apparent, these are standard DVD files…VOB files.
Thanks for any suggestions.
You say you’re using a NAS, so I’m assuming you’re using “Network Shares” to access it, not “Media Servers.”
DVD Subtitles should work just fine on the Hub. Almost all of my content is DVD-based, so I’m confident saying Subs work just fine.
Let’s rule a couple of things out (and sorry if they sound stupid, but things like this happened!)
1- You’re NOT using Media Server (DLNA or UPnP)
2- Your DVD Rips actually HAVE subtitles
3- Make sure you give it time to actually display the subtitles. It can take a few seconds or so during active dialog.
4- You’re not interrupting the subtitles by interacting with the progress bar or menus.
Also try activating them THROUGH the menu; during Playback, hit the OPTIONS menu and select subtitles from there.
My NAS does have DLNA streaming capabilities and that is what I selected for viewing the movies from the Live Hub.
So are you saying that DLNA will not support/stream the subtitles? I am at work right now, so I cannot test this.
Thanks for your help.
That’s right. DLNA won’t stream EXTERNAL subtitles (Subtitles that are in a different file), but it WILL support them if they are muxed into the video file as a separate track (MKV is the best example of that.)
I’m also guessing that your DVDs don’t have menu support via the streaming, right?
While watching NetFlix, I can not get the subtitles to turn on and work. What am I doing wrong?
