vlc don't load correctly subtitles

[aba3k]

Binary package hint: vlc

Im' testing hardy heron, and vlc don't load the subtitles. Totem read correctly. To make they read, i need to remove all spaces, all special characters (like hyphens) and all caps from the avi/srt. ie. a subtitle called 'Glass and wine' don't open, i need to rename they for 'glassandwine'

After this vlc find and load the subtitle, but some words or phrases don't appear. Then, i need to open the file containing the subtitle (.srt in my case) and save it again with other encoding (western - iso8859-15). Then i need to open in vlc -> Preferences -> Input / Codecs -> Other codecs -> Subtitles, Subtitle text and put the same encoding (western - iso8859-15).

vlc: 0.86e

ubuntu hardy heron beta

[Robert Hrovat (robi-hipnos)]

Confirming. In Hardy Heron VLC doesn't load subtitles at all. Also right-click menu doesn give you option for turning on subtitles.

[Can Berk Güder (cbguder)]

VLC loads subtitles correctly, but only if you use "File > Quick Open File..." or "File > Open File...".

Changing line 11 in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop from

Exec=vlc %U

to

Exec=vlc %F

seems to fix the problem.

[Can Berk Güder (cbguder)]

oh, and this seems to be a duplicate of #190188

[Ruwan Jayaweera (ruwan-jayaweera)]

That did the trick Berk, thanks.

But u don't need to open it every time using the "File >" menu. Just double clicking the file also works for me.

[eidam655 (eidam655)]

well...

Can Berk Güder's tip worked for turning the Subtitle menu on, but still no subtitles being loaded.

i'll try it with the no-caps-no-hyphens file and subtitle names, but i'd still appreciate if this wouldn't be needed, as previous versions worked fine.

[eidam655 (eidam655)]

ok, confirmed that without spaces (and hyphens and so on), the subtitles work.

but please, fix this asap :) thank you

[Hew (hew)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #190188, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.