Divx Subtitles with Media Streaming

I recently installed a Divx plug-in software and the DirectVobSub media
codec in order to watch Divx&MKV movies as well as display .srt subtitles
with my WMP11 which works very fine.

I have also enabled WMP11 to serve as the media centre for the Playstation 3
across my wired home LAN however yet I could not make WMP11 show the .srt
filename subtitles whilst streaming the Divx&MKV media on my PS3 !? ... Dont
know why but there should be a way, I guess ..

Subtitle files will normally be displayed by WMP, when they're in the
same folder as the media file, and named the same as the media file
(but with the .srt extension - though this may only work for SAMI
subtitle files)

This also works for media served from a web server, or from a proper
streaming media server on WMP - that is, a windows server 2003 / 2008
media server. The server will be sent a second request from WMP where
subtitles are enabled, as long as the path to the subtitles (SAMI
format only, AFAIK) is added to the media path to the video, like
rtsp://server.com/mediafile.wmv?SAMI=http://webserver.net/mediafile.sami

The subtitle file in that case would need to be served from a separate
web server - media servers don't generally send this file type, only
the video. So that's significantly complicated ;-)

Coming back to home media though, I've not tested the scenario of
using WMP to stream media files *and* subtitle files (It may do in a
limited sense, possibly only for SAMI files)

Even if it does, there's a fair to good change the PS3 doesn't know
anything about subtitle (SRT or SAMI) files - and even if it does, it
may not *request* that file, or necessarily display it even if it
requests it by default.

I don't have a PS3 here to try it (a friend does) so all I can suggest
is to see if there's any documentation either online or in the user
manual, which suggests the PS3 should pick up those files.

My take is it aint gonna work though for the ablove reasons PLUS the
DirectVOBSub is a display plugin for WMP - and you're not sending
WMP's screen display, but streaming the video file content instead.

There are some programs available (eg video editors) that can overlay
subtitles from a provided file, directly onto the video - making a new
video file with the subtitle text actually part of the video picture.

That could be the only way round this I can think of.

Check the Convert/Save, Stream Output panel then Subtitles tab.

[xulian]

I know this post is pretty old, but think it can be helpful to everyone know that there is other options out there to get this done: Orb can create this 'overlay' transmitting both the video and subtittles together. But it needs to be with 2.0 version, 2.54 doesn't work atm.