Subtitle merge to movie

[Bledingham]

Hi guys, I spent $10 (which isn't a lot of $$) for the app on my MacBook Pro purely because I have several movies that I've burnt from dvd that are missing subtitles. I'm able to drag my movie over and it does find the subtitles and downloads them for me in my media folder - a black box appears with "exec" written in the black box and it saves as the name of the movie with ".eng.srt" after it. My question is how do I get the subtitles to actually appear in the movie that I already have downloaded. I can't for the life of me figure this out and there are no directions. I tried matching and renaming and none of that has worked. I would think there's some sort of merge function. Please help.

[skullzy]

Usually with an SRT it requires you to have it as the same name as the movie "The movie 2014.avi" - "The movie 2014.srt".. but if the media player your using doesn't support subtitles, then it won't work.. Quick Time in this case would be completely useless..

To find out if the problem is your media player, you could try using VLC for mac, it's perhaps one of the best media players there is.. comes with built in codecs so you don't have to worry about downloading third party software in order to play a file.

Hope this helps

[Bledingham]

thank you. I actually am using Quicktime, and then convert to iTunes. So you're saying that won't work? Do you know if there is another medial player that does work that will convert to iTunes?

[skullzy]

thank you. I actually am using Quicktime, and then convert to iTunes. So you're saying that won't work? Do you know if there is another medial player that does work that will convert to iTunes?

Your welcome.

As I mentioned prior, VLC will work with SRT files, it will also let you convert (and add SRT files to it), another way would be to use software called Handbrake although this isn't a media player, this was designed for converting video files.

So here is a tutorial on using VLC to convert to a file format + add subtitle, I'm not certain on the specific file format/converter type you would need to use in order to convert it for itunes. And here is a tutorial on adding subtitles using handbrake With handbrake you would pick the universal profile which will apparently work in itunes..

Hopefully this helps