Subtitles on Kodi

[tony1996]

Hey guys

The Q10 is my 2nd Android box. I used previously an Xtreamer 4K Prodigy. Every single thing sucked about that box but there is ONE thing I find myself missing about it : subtitles management in Kodi.

I just don't get why the menu GUI is different. It's the exact same App on both boxes. Is the Q10 forcing its own interface in Kodi? Every single screen looks exactly the same EXCEPT the video menu.
Now this wouldn't really be a problem, except that I personally find subtitles management terrible on the Q10.
Downloading a subtitle for a video you're watching is infuriating for the following reasons:
1- All available subtitles are renamed to match the EXACT video file that you're watching. This is misleading as I end up 90% of the time with wrong subtitles that I need to manually adjust.
2- The subtitle selection window is very small so all subtitles show up truncated. So even if point 1 above was resolved, it would still be tough identifying the correct subtitles.
3- For the life of me I couldn't find how to find a way to switch between Subtitles providers. I initially used both Subscene and OpenSubtitles. In the Xtreamer, I could easily switch between both using tabs. On the Q10 I couldn't find how to do that so I just disabled the OpenSubtitles add-on...
4- No display of ratings for subtitles...

In order of priority I would say point 1 is the most critical one. I really hope it's something that is readily fixable and even something I might have missed when initally setting up the Q10.

I know NiceMonkey here used to have the Xtreamer so might know best what I am describing above. Hope you can help me with this !

Thanks

[stl]

The subtitles should be same in both Kodi versions, what's probably happening is that you're using Himedia Player via wrapper to play the files instead of kodi internal player.

[HereIsTom]

Yes, I have no problem with the subtitels and the Kodi player.

https://howtomediacenter.com/en/tutorial-how-to-enable-automatic-subtitles-on-kodi/

[tmihai20]

If the movie is called Avengers.mkv, I am using Avengers.en.srt for the subtitle in English and so on. The country codes are available somewhere. You can instruct Kodi what language it should prefer and the order. I am always downloading subtitles myself. This is also working on MPC Home Cinema on Windows or any other player (VLC). You set it once, keep this naming convention and you should not have any issues. It took me a while to discover this, it is not recommended anywhere and it is too logical to not be uses. This page describes the language codes pretty well https://www.science.co.il/language/Codes.php.

Edit: I think you are downloading subtitles through Kodi. Getting subtitles through Kodi is a pain the behind, that is why I am getting the English ones from opensubtitles.org and the Romanian ones from a few local websites. There are a lot of topics on this matter around here.