Subtitles in HiMediaplayer and Kodi stutering playback - other mediaplayer?

[Niro13]

Hi,

I have been using WDTV mediaplayers for quite some time now but as they have discontinued their mediaplayers products I have decided to move on and buy an android-based mediaplayer. After some  research, I have bought a HiMedia Q10 Pro but I am quite new to the android-based TV mediaplayers so please keep that in mind.

In general, I am very happy with the performance of Q10 Pro and its mediaplayer despite missing a "library" function and aparently having some limitation on accessing more than one .srt subtitle. I have quite a large collection of movies (some of them quite old dvd rips) with idx/sub and .srt or .sub subtitles (bilingual family so most of the movies have at least 2 subtitles) or more than one .srt / .sub file.
When having more .srt files (with name of the movie but at the end with a number or initials to differentiate ...), HiMedia does not detect any of them as I understand that it needs to be named exactely like the movie (no more than 1 .srt or .sub file) so I am not able to play those files. Muxing them in a MKV container is not an option as it takes too much time.

As I have learned, KODI as a powerful library function and has no problem with accessing multiple .srt/.sub subtitles, which is true, however, unfortunately I do experience stuttering playback (especially old rips, even after using the full auto framerate switching add-on of pcristi and looun, from which I am grateful - Thank you! - as as I have no problem anymore with the 1080p files).

Under these circumstances, I was wondering whether above subtitle limitation can (and will) be fixed in HiMediaplayer and, if not, if someone has tried to replace the DvDPlayer in Kody with another android mediaplayer, any positive experience with that?

Thank you for taking the time to read and address my request.
Niro

[looun]

you simply add the  language prefix to SRT file like:
film1.mkv
film1.en.srt
film1.es.srt
film1.de.srt
film1.it.srt
ecc..

[Niro13]

I have all my .srt and .sub subtitles named as
film-en.srt
film-fr.srt
etc.
as this was working under WDTV

If I replace the "-" with a "." they are indeed picked up by the HiMediaplayer.
Thanks a lot for helping me out with this!
I have been searching this forum and others and I've got the wrong impression that HiMediaplayer accepts only 1 external subtitle.

Thanks a ton looun!
Nicolae

[Linuxx]

unfortunately I do experience stuttering playback (especially old rips, even after using the full auto framerate switching add-on of pcristi and looun, from which I am grateful - Thank you! - as as I have no problem anymore with the 1080p files).

Under these circumstances, I was wondering whether above subtitle limitation can (and will) be fixed in HiMediaplayer and, if not, if someone has tried to replace the DvDPlayer in Kody with another android mediaplayer, any positive experience with that?

Me too if you read my thread. I had a WDTV Player with zero playback problem (except some codec). Problem is not Kodi but box tv that frame switch is based on tv HZ and not FPS. But this big characteristic is not taken into observation by Himedia. Any other video files from 720p rip and up is good.

[looun]

If I replace the "-" with a "." they are indeed picked up by the HiMediaplayer.

bouble dot  "." like 'film.en.srt' is standard for ALL player.....linux android windows   

unfortunately I do experience stuttering playback (especially old rips, even after using the full auto framerate switching add-on of pcristi and looun, from which I am grateful - Thank you! - as as I have no problem anymore with the 1080p files).

Under these circumstances, I was wondering whether above subtitle limitation can (and will) be fixed in HiMediaplayer and, if not, if someone has tried to replace the DvDPlayer in Kody with another android mediaplayer, any positive experience with that?

i not understood you have yet issues?

Remember kodi  DvDPlayer  NOT support very well MPEG-2 and interlaced  video , it's a BIG  Kodi(android)  bug but they not fix because amlogic and shield not support MPEG-2/interlaced  video hardware decoding.
There are NOT any problem with himedia video player APP.

[Niro13]

bouble dot  "." like 'film.en.srt' is standard for ALL player.....linux android windows   

i not understood you have yet issues?
Remember kodi  DvDPlayer  NOT support very well MPEG-2 and interlaced  video , it's a BIG  Kodi(android)  bug but they not fix because amlogic and shield not support MPEG-2/interlaced  video hardware decoding.
There are NOT any problem with himedia video player APP.

Yes, I am quite new to the Android (linux) world so I didn't know about the use of the dot.

My old rips (including some rips of old family video tapes) play well in HiMediaplayer, at least the ones I have tried and at least to my eyes ...... so I will be using the wrapper in Kodi. One option I certainly miss though with the wrapper (HiMedia player) is the zoom function (especially for old rips) as the full-screen function does not work for me.