Any chance to display subtitles without DirectVobSub ?

[TripleH]

Hi,

I'm about to buy a geforce 8500gt in order to get fine H264 playback on my system with its H264 hardware decoding.

As far as I understand, it will only decode H264 while there is no other program/filter between the video decoder and the renderer. So, if DirectVobSub is on the H264 hardware decoding doesn't work.

Is it possible to play H264/Blu-ray/HD-DVD movie with external subtitles without using DirectVobSub ?

Thanks.

[KoD]

Right now there is no subtitle filter that will do what you require.

For playing Blu-Ray/HD-DVD discs or discs ripped to HD with intact directory and file structure, you have a solution: use a commercial player like WinDVD and PowerDVD (the latter one when it will get support, present version I think doesn't). Use the trial versions of the players first to be sure !

An important note: I've seen contradictory reports regarding hardware acceleration of h264/vc-1 video on G84 nvidia chips (the chips inside the 8600 and 8500 cards) when playing something else than a HD-DVD/Blu-Ray disc. Some say hardware acceleration is not used in such cases, some say it does. Have a look at this article from Beyond 3D (http://www.beyond3d.com/content/reviews/11/9). Anyway, it's most likely a software player or a driver issue that will be solved or has already been solved.

[TripleH]

Is there a way to mux a srt subtitle file into a TS file ?

[KoD]

I don't know.

Maybe you should start a new thread about this in the "Alternative a/v containers" section of the forum. There are people working on ts muxers/demuxers right now and they would probably know more.

[The_Keymaker]

8500GT and 8600GT/GTS will do h.264 and VC-1 acceleration ONLY in Vista currently. The XP drivers for these cards do not currently support acceleration with these formats.