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srt files

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silkties

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Hi
I have a film mp4 file with its accompanying SRT subtitle file on my PC.
I want to play these, using a memory stick, on my Fox T2. I can play the film but not the SRT file.
Can anyone help

regards

| Fri 30 Apr 2021 14:36:02 #1 |
comqpq

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One possibility - some sources (e.g. Chrisvideotubedownloader) produce SRT files with the language code in the subtitle file name
e.g. XYZ.mp4 and XYZ.en.srt
These have different base names so the Humax doesn't recognise them as belonging to each other, so rename the file.
Also, sometimes the srt file is UTF encoded, so they need stripping to plain ANSI text.
I produced a basic batch file to do this to all .en.srt files it finds in the directory - no checks, no sophistication:
rem convert all .en.srt files to ANSI and rename as just .srt rem misnames with & in filename
rem convert for %%f in (*.en.srt) do iconv -c -f utf-8 -t windows-1252 "%%f" >"%%f.ansi" rem hide originals ren *.en.srt *.utfsrt rem rename extensions of just these files call :stripexts en.srt.ansi call :stripexts en.srt ren *.en *.srt rem delete original srts del *.utfsrt goto:eof :stripexts for %%f in (*.%1) do call :stripext "%%f" goto:eof
:stripext set g=%~n1 ren %1 "%g%" goto:eof

| Thu 28 Dec 2023 16:49:12 #2 |

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