• From: Athens, Greece
  • Registered: 2009-10-22
  • Posts: 600

Topic: VLC fails to autoload subtitles (solution)

Since I moved to #! 10, VLC couldn't autoload the subtitles anymore despite that the video and subtitle's name where the same. I was looking all over google to find this problem and solution without success.

Yesterday out of nowhere it autoloaded 2 subs for 2 different files. From there, it wasn't to difficult to understand the problem. VLC seemed that couldn't handle filenames with spaces. It could load the subs if both files where "House.MD.S02.E15.avi/srt" but didn't if it was "House MD S02E15.avi/srt" (notice the fullstops instead of spaces on the one that loads).

I did a search again with this and came up with this bug on ubuntu from 2008!

The simple solution is to edit the vlc.desktop under /usr/share/applications and change

Exec=vlc %U

with

Exec=vlc %F
  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
  • Posts: 8,647

Re: VLC fails to autoload subtitles (solution)

Has this been reported to the Debian devs? They should change the .desktop file included in their vlc package.

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  • From: Athens, Greece
  • Registered: 2009-10-22
  • Posts: 600

Re: VLC fails to autoload subtitles (solution)

I just did a search on debian  and nothing came up...can you report this anonymous?

  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: VLC fails to autoload subtitles (solution)

Ok I reported the bug (I think). Hopefully it goes through.

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  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: VLC fails to autoload subtitles (solution)

I just got feedback on the bug. Try changing VLC's desktop file so it reads:

Exec=vlc '%U'
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  • From: Athens, Greece
  • Registered: 2009-10-22
  • Posts: 600

Re: VLC fails to autoload subtitles (solution)

well vlc '%U' isn't working... I'm keeping the vlc %F...