Video players and subtitles files

[Wynona Stacy Lockwood]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 01:35 Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Do any of the video players that are available for Ubuntu, support
> subtitles files with the .en.dfxp extension?
>
> I have tried downloading and playing a video file with the above
> extension, using the yt-dlp switch --write-subs and the subtitles file
> appears to have downloaded okay.
>
> However, in trying to view the video using the following video players,
> I cannot get the subtitles to be displayed.
>
> Celluloid
> mpv
> SMPlayer
> vlc
> Media Player
>
> Those video players appear to not support the above subtitles file
> extension.
>
> When I download fro youtube, using yt-dlp --write-auto-subs, the file
> extension is .en.vtt, which, when using the above video players, is
> automatically loaded and displayed in the playing of the video, except
> for the Media Player, which does not apply the subtitles file.
>
> So, I am wondering whether one of the video players that is available
> for Ubuntu, supports subtitles files with the .en.dfxp extension?
>

I could be mistaken, but I thought ffmpeg had an option for encoding
subtitles. Please Google to confirm, but I seem to remember being able to
add them that way.

-- 
Wynona Stacy Lockwood
stacy at guppylog.com

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