MacBros' Place

 Well, getting wasted and trying to make something work didn’t go so well.

I ended up wasting an entire evening/night trying to get my Playstation 3 to display subtitles when playing a movie. I was using a movie file that came with some subtitle files.

For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what was going wrong. Everything is set properly and there is really no reason why the subtitles aren’t showing up. I played one section of a movie where this guy speaks German and the subs wouldn’t show up. I played it over and over so many times I think I was starting to understand what he was saying. But then again that could be the beer effect.

The Lion was getting pissed off. I think I named every cuss word known to man. “Why isn’t this Fu@king piece of Sh*t good for nothing Mutha Fuc#ing Thing not working!!??”

When I found out why it wasn’t working, it was one of them, ‘Slap in the forehead’ moments.

DOUGH!

I should have tested out another movie. Just to make sure it wasn’t the subtitle files that were corrupt. Yup, that would have saved me hours and hours of time.

As it turns out. The subtitle files were FUBAR!

So I downloaded some working sub files and it’s all working nicely.

So I suppose I let others know how to get subtitles to play on your PS3.

1. Get a free copy of AVIAddXSubs. This will create a DIVX file of the movie and encode the subtitles into the files also. It doesn’t recode the video, and it takes about a minute or two to create it.
2. Now the latest firmware update on the PS3 was supposed to let you play DIVX files, but for some reason my PS3 was saying the file was Unsupported. I found out that TVersity will overcome that hurdle. So I downloaded it. A nice program too. It has several TV shows you can watch too.
3. When the PS3 starts playing the movie, you just press the Triangle button to display the menu and select the Subtitle option. Select the language and you’re done! If the subtitle files you used were functioning that is.

The AVIAddXSubs program will use .sub, .idx, and .srt subtitle file types, and you can set the preferences of the way you want the subtitles to display also. It’s actually a useful utility if you stream your movies from your computer to your PS3 but also want to have the subtitles to display. It takes just a minute or two to create the DIVX files containing the subtitles too and doesn’t convert the video and doesn’t have any video quality loss.

The TVersity program is also a useful utility. not only will it allow you to stream movies from your hard drive, but it also allows you to play YouTube, RSS Feeds from other video sites, it also has a few channels you can watch like CNN, G4, and so on. It’s almost like having a separate television provider.

Well anyway, this angry lion is cooling off now. A bit of a headache from the beers, but all is fine again. It’s safe to come out from hiding behind the bushes now.