Movies on USB to TV

MarkB4 on 08/12/2012 - 15:50
Last edited 08/12/2012 - 16:06

Hi. I watch downloaded movies by putting them on a usb and putting that in the Samsung TV (mostly .avi files).

This way I lose the use of subtitles (mostly .srt files). They work fine if I use the computer and VLC player.

Can someone tell me how to watch the same movies on TV and get the subtitles without buying a computer to do it from?

All I want is something I can plug the USB into that plugs/USB/HDMI/PC (sockets) into the TV and I can see subtitles if I want.

Any suggestions please? I'm not up on what can be done by what. Would be appreciated.

Thanks. M

EDIT : I don't need it for live streaming. I have all I need downloaded to computer.

Comments

_Bruce_ on 08/12/2012 - 17:22

Three options:

1: Put the subtitles in a format your TV can recognise. There may be no way I does this, I don't know, you will have to research your specific TV model.

2: Get a player like WDTV. Note that whatever player you get will have it's own limitation on how subtitles work as per option 1.

3: Encode the subtitles directly into the video. This is more complicated, but will always work. You can re-encode the video so that the text is part of the video. You won't be able to turn it on and off and it won't look as good.
- MarkB4 on 08/12/2012 - 18:56
  
  Thanks for reply Bruce. Yes, I have to find the manual. Re-encoding a terabyte of movies isn't realistic. Maybe I'll just dig up an old PC and do it that way.
jelko on 08/12/2012 - 20:28

Yes, get the WDTV Live SMP. It will play avi files with separate subtile (srt. idx etc) files.
MarkB4 on 09/12/2012 - 03:58

I made changes to the .srt files and so far so good. On the computer I can turn them on or off, but on the TV They are mostly unavailable. So I changed the .srt to the exact name as the .avi files and they play automatically, though I can't turn them off.

Thanks for your input guys, much appreciated.