Subtitles won't play...

[Bloopie]

Hey,

I have played like 5 XviD movies now with my new Pioneer DV-383 and they all played fine with subtitles.

But the other day, I burned a DVD-R with 6 movies on it. 4 had the subtitles play fine on them and 2 other movies had no subtitles...
When I click the subtitles button while playing them it shows "-/-" instead of "1/1", as in, it can't find any subtitles related to this movie.
I double-checked if the srt and avi file names were matching and they are so I don't really get what the problem is. Both movies even played with subtitles when I tried them on my PC.

Any idea what's going on here?
Thanks

[unmei]

Maybe the subtitle files the standalone does not recognize are unicode.

Many unicode files have a special marking at the begin (Byte Order Mask, BOM) which you usually don't see in capable text editors but which may cause the player not recogize the file as valid .srt. In the case of UTF-16 Unicode a non capable player will also choke on the structure such as timecode itself, as opposed to UTF-8 where most of the file should be no problem, except for the BOM and the characters not in US-ASCII.

On the computer this is usually not a problem since windows 2000 and above as well as direct vobsub or vsfilter (one of which i assume you use) have no problems with unicode.

If you don't have another advanced text editor at hand, you can check the current encoding of the files by opening them in notepad and select file->save as.. The "save as" dialog should have a dropdown labeled "Encoding" at the bottom, with the current encoding selected. If this is not currently "ANSI" you can try to set it to that - you possibly lose/mess-up characters that are not available in your local codepage. So if you suspect there are such characters you should read through the file to "solve" those.