Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. When I try to watch a video with external .srt subtitles in VLC, I get strings like "98 --> 00:00:11" (which are strings part of the .stt file) instead of the proper text. The problem is the same whether I open the subtitles with the "Open (advanced)" menu option, or name both files

Re: Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-10-10 at 13:08 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > When I try to watch a video with external .srt subtitles in VLC, I > get > strings like "98 --> 00:00:11" (which are strings part of the .stt > file) > instead of the proper text. The problem is the same whether I open

Re: Subtitles don't show properly in VLC, how to fix it? (Debian 7)

2015-10-10 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I found a solution. I compared this .srt file with another .srt file that works on my version of VLC. I found that the difference is the format of the time tags. I changed it accordingly from: 00:03:47.47 --> 00:03:53 to: 00:03:47,470 --> 00:03:53,000 (which is the format used in the