- Feb 2, 2005
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So I'm using windows media center to play ripped blu ray mkvs on the htpc connected to my main tv. I'm using Haali splitter and ffdshow to decode the mkvs because ffdshow will allow me to convert dts and Dolbyhd to 5.1 Dolby digital, which is all that my audio reciever can handle.
My problem is that some blu ray movies have subtitle tracks for the parts of a movie that have non-English speech that are intended by the movie maker to be subtitled for English speaking audiences. Blu ray players display these subtitles automatically, but it isn't automatic when playing mkvs. Quite often I'll be watching a movie, someone in the movie will be speaking a foreign language, and I'll start to wonder if I'm supposed to be seeing a subtitle for that part. In order to check, I have to take media center out of fullscreen, enable subtitles in ffdshow, and search for the possible subtitle track in a long list on Haali media splitter's menu. Then I have to play the movie until I've determined whether its the one I want. This is annoying, but to make things worse, sometimes media center will restart the movie from the beginning, or lock up entirely when I switch from fullscreen to windowed mode or windowed to fullscreen to check the subtitle tracks.
I need a better way to access subtitle tracks. Ideally, I'd like to be able to change subtitle tracks from within windows media center if that's possible. I can't use windows 7's standard mkv codec because all it does is pass through the audio which is quite often in a format that my receiver can't handle, but ffdshow/Haali is feeling pretty clunky as well. I haven't looked into new codec packs and the like lately, so I'm hoping someone knows an easy way that I might be able to switch between subtitle tracks from within media center while the movie is still playing, or any other simpler solution that I might have missed. Thanks.
My problem is that some blu ray movies have subtitle tracks for the parts of a movie that have non-English speech that are intended by the movie maker to be subtitled for English speaking audiences. Blu ray players display these subtitles automatically, but it isn't automatic when playing mkvs. Quite often I'll be watching a movie, someone in the movie will be speaking a foreign language, and I'll start to wonder if I'm supposed to be seeing a subtitle for that part. In order to check, I have to take media center out of fullscreen, enable subtitles in ffdshow, and search for the possible subtitle track in a long list on Haali media splitter's menu. Then I have to play the movie until I've determined whether its the one I want. This is annoying, but to make things worse, sometimes media center will restart the movie from the beginning, or lock up entirely when I switch from fullscreen to windowed mode or windowed to fullscreen to check the subtitle tracks.
I need a better way to access subtitle tracks. Ideally, I'd like to be able to change subtitle tracks from within windows media center if that's possible. I can't use windows 7's standard mkv codec because all it does is pass through the audio which is quite often in a format that my receiver can't handle, but ffdshow/Haali is feeling pretty clunky as well. I haven't looked into new codec packs and the like lately, so I'm hoping someone knows an easy way that I might be able to switch between subtitle tracks from within media center while the movie is still playing, or any other simpler solution that I might have missed. Thanks.
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