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MickeyRat

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Registered: 2011-11-15

Posts: 145

[SOLVED]VLC not loading subtitles

This morning I did an update and a several VLC items were updated. After that I had a problem playing H264 files. Reinstalling vlc-plugin-ffmpeg  as discussed in this post worked for that problem but, there's another problem.  VLC can't load subtitles from a file and VLSUB doesn't work.  That's probably two manifestations of the same problem.  Can someone please tell me what else I need to reinstall?

Thanks

Last edited by MickeyRat (2025-07-09 18:19:29)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]VLC not loading subtitles

You didn't 'reinstall' vlc-plugin-ffmpeg, you installed it as it wasn't installed in the first place. This will be the same situation, see `pacman -Qi vlc` for the optional deps you ignored when vlc was updated. Always read what pacman tells you.

MickeyRat

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Registered: 2011-11-15

Posts: 145

Re: [SOLVED]VLC not loading subtitles

Not really a targetted solution but, installing vlc-plugins-all fixed it.

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED]VLC not loading subtitles

$ pacman -Si vlc | grep subtitle
                  vlc-plugin-ass: for SSA/ASS subtitle codec support
                  vlc-plugin-srt: for subtitle support
$ 

Installing vlc-plugin-srt was enough for me.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-07-10 09:51:04)

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mdjose

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Registered: 2025-07-15

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Re: [SOLVED]VLC not loading subtitles

I had to install vlc-plugin-ass, vlc-plugin-freetype, and vlc-plugin-matroska to get subtitles working properly. In my case, vlc-plugin-srt wasn't needed.