Cannot see subtitles from Media server (Win7) although .srt exist

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At my PC, Windows 7, I have added a Movies directory with MKV files to the Videos Library.

I can see and playback fine all MKV files, BUT I cannot see their respective subtitles, although they exist at my Hard drive (with the MKV files, same filename with .srt extention, etc., I know about this).

Please note that I can play the same MKV files at my PC with subtitles, or if I copy the MKV files, together with their .srt,  to a USB hard drive and connect it to WDTV Live. So, I mean that there is no problem with the .srt files and they play fine otherwise. I have problem only to see subtitles when viewing the MKVs through the Media Server.

So, the question is: Is there any way to make my WDTV Live to see my .srt subtitles files at the same location where it is reading the MKV files to play them from the Media Server directory (MKVs directory) ???

Hope my question here is clear.

Looking forward to your answer. Thank you.

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No, EXTERNAL subtitles (files that are separate from the MKV) are not supported by Media Server.

You have a couple of choices.

Use Network Shares instead of Media Servers, or use MKVMerge to combine the SRT subtitles INSIDE the MKV file.

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Hi.

Thanks for your answer. But with network shares, although I can see subtitles, after a while the video starts freezing all the time and as a result you cannot watch the movie.

I am trying to see how the MKVMerge works. Hope that this is straight forward how to just insert the subtitles into the MKV video file. Do you have any idea how long this would take (how many hours)? Hope not too many, because I have so many MKVs with separate .srt subtitlles!!

Waiting for your reply.

Thanks, best regards,

Kostas.

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Depends on the size of the file, but generally a few minutes for a few hundred megabytes…

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MKVmerge GUI shouldn’t take very long to mux a subtitle into an MKV.  Couple of minutes per file I think, depending on filesize of course.

I created an MKV from a 733MB AVI and an SRT in just under 1 minute (CPU is Core2Duo running at 2GHz).  That’s tested with MKVmerge 4.0.0 on a Mac.

You can create a Queue / Batch and leave it running.