Duck and Cover

So yeah, watching a foreign movie and grabbed subtitles for it (because I only know Australian), but I'm having a prick of a time actually getting them to display. Was using VideoLAN, and downloaded some codec which was ment to help. Even tried an alternative suggested media player called Mplayer, but still no dice.

I'm assuming people here are more clued in on this then I am. So help me damn it, I want to watch City of Lost Children

Stainless wrote:So help me damn it, I want to watch City of Lost Children

sorry dude, I only know how to go to the DVD options menu and select :useless:

Good movie, though!

quick edit - maybe some of this would help?

http://wiki.videolan.org/Subtitle

http://wiki.videolan.org/SubtitlesCodec

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25314

http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch03.html

Download VLC player and use that. Works for everything.

VLC = VideoLAN. Still can't get subtitles to display, unless I'm missing something

You need the subtitle file. Else it wont work, some videos have it integrated. Others need an addition subtitle file.

Yup, files like .srt, .sub or even .txt... Check places like http://www.opensubtitles.org/en for more info, maybe? Sometimes, don't know why (bad programming?), some players require the subtitle file to be named exactly same as the movie file. Could be the case only on my soviet-built beta software, though.

You can check if the subtitles are not corrupted by opening the file on notepad. If it's readable, it should be ok. Don't try using DVD subtitle files on DivX etc. video files, doesn't work that way! If it's just about the fucked up timing or something like that, you could download yourself subtitle editing software like Subtitle Workshop for example, and try fixing them up yourself. Usually it's not worth the trouble, if you don't know what you're doing.

i had a similair problem with a herzog movie? i think i had to convert the subtitle file to a .srt using vobsub or if i mounted it or some kooky shit

Try a dictionary.

Buying DVDs - Makes shit easy for people who aren't complete bums or "against the system"

Is it a two-part movie stainless?

All I did was drag the subtitle file into the movie playing in VLC

Dreadnought wrote:Buying DVDs - Makes shit easy for people who aren't complete bums or "against the system"

qfe

Buy them from US and you get a hefty discount.

Subhuman wrote:

Dreadnought wrote:Buying DVDs - Makes shit easy for people who aren't complete bums or "against the system"

qfe

Denmark and Australia aren't exactly known for being the best places to get obscure foreign language movies that are over a decade old, on any kind of media.
This IS the easy way.

Order online, then. Or does Denmark not accept packages from foreign countries? Do you have electricity there? How many land mines are still left?

Lazy asses. It's called Amazon.

Smiley wrote:

Subhuman wrote:

Dreadnought wrote:Buying DVDs - Makes shit easy for people who aren't complete bums or "against the system"

qfe

Denmark and Australia aren't exactly known for being the best places to get obscure foreign language movies that are over a decade old, on any kind of media.
This IS the easy way.

Yeah, as the OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone said, either you order it online or you go to your local DVD retailer and ask him to order it in for you.
Unlike most other places in the world Australia doesn't rely on regional coding that much.

Got it to work, Kash was right, with it needing the same name and shit as the actual movie file.

Smiley, yes it's divided into two parts

Dread/Sub: I don't buy movies that I've never seen before, much like I don't buy a game I've never played. Unemployed = no income = don't want to it waste it some movie that could be not to my taste.

Stop picking on illegal movie downloaders... you corporate slaves. You realize how much money those pricks make off of movies? If a humble muthafucka can just download that shit, why not? Fuck those jews!

The only movie I regret illegally downloading is Robocop, because it was actually an incredible mocie and warrants at least thirty bucks for the special edition.

the above statement is neither an admission of guilt or acknowledgement by Dogmeatlives of any involvement in aforementioned thievery of digital video signals from the 80's!

Subhuman wrote:Order online, then. Or does Denmark not accept packages from foreign countries? Do you have electricity there? How many land mines are still left?

Lazy asses. It's called Amazon.

Sure we do, at a 150-300% tax increase.
And yes, we do actually have landmines here, on the very same island that I live on.

I suggest you come over and see for yourself.

Smiley wrote:

Subhuman wrote:Order online, then. Or does Denmark not accept packages from foreign countries?

Sure we do, at a 150-300% tax increase.

How is that even possible? Or does ze Government keep track of online orders/mail packages?

Buying dvd's on amazon is twice as cheap as from your local rip-off video store and movies is the only form of media worth owning physically(collector's edition crap excluded).

if you have it marked as a gift, it may pass through without tax. That's obviously illegal though, and they check a lot of packages.

Completely irrelevant though, the point was whether it was easy or not, and I prefer waiting 45 minutes for the download to finish, opposed to waiting several days for a package to arrive.

And I fail to see how it's easier to type in billing and address information, opposed to downloading a torrent and then opening the file.

In the end, it's a moral decision, I spend roughly 400€ monthly on games, movies and media/merchandise in general, supporting the things I like. I feel no obligation to go out of my way to pay for a product that isn't readily available.

BUT, now that there'll be a renting option via the PS3, I'll be more inclined to pay for movies I haven't seen.