Showing subtitles for anything other than recorded TV in Windows 7 Media Center can be a tricky business. One method is to force Media Center to play your video through FFDShow, which has built in support for subtitles, but accomplishing that has been less than easy for a large number of users and seems to get more difficult with [...]
One of the greatest features of newer video container formats such as MKV is their ability to contain multiple audio and subtitle streams as well as chapter markers. These are the type of features that begin to bridge the gap between traditional DVD and Blu-Ray media playback and non-traditional digitally distributed or locally stored media. Unfortunately, Microsoft has neglected [...]
So you forgot to include subtitles while ripping your movie collection, what do you do now? Luckily, the solution isn’t to go back through the entire process and do it over again. You will need to break those DVDs back out of storage, however. Today we’ll use a program called SubRip to analyze the subtitles of each movie and [...]
Many Media Center enthusiasts choose to use FFDShow Video codecs to playback their videos in Windows Media Center. Often one setting that gets easily overlooked however is the subtitles setting. Enabling subtitles doesn’t mean that every time you pop in a movie you’re going to be forced to read the dialog for every single scene. What it does mean [...]
Have a multipart video you’d like to merge into a single MKV file? MKVToolnix has just the tool for you! Using this handy little app you can pack those multipart AVIs, MP4s, even MKVs and more into a single MKV video file. Just choose the part and let it do it’s thing. MKVToolnix’s MKVMerge GUI takes what could be [...]
