Missing subtitles

[RonJohn]

I am having a consistent problem with foreign movies that I have downloaded. When I open them on my PC with VLC player, everything is fine. When I put them on a thumbdrive and try to play them through my Playstation 3, the subtitles are gone, I have tried to open them with the subtitle option, but I always get the message that no subtitles are available. I have tried to stream them directly to my PS3 and I do get the subtitles that way, but after about 10 minutes or so, the video starts to stutter and pause. Any suggestions?

[General Winters]

Most .avi files and the like either use hardcoded subtitles, or the player reads the subtitles from an external file such as a .srt file.

.mkv files can contain multiple internal streams, audio, video and I think subtitles, but playing or accessing them depends on the players abilities.

What type of files are you playing, and if they came with a subtitle file are you copying that over to the thumbdrive as well?

[RonJohn]

They are .avi files. The PS3 doesn't play .mkv files and I have had mixed luck with .mp4's. They are hardcoded subtitles. If the files contain a .srt file, I always burn the the movie to a disc with the subtitle file added. That's basically why I can't figure out why the subtitles won't appear on the PS3.