Subtitles in Apple Tv 2

This worked thanks.

Hi, myself own Apple TV and Roku also..... since apple tv don't have "CC" and my suggestion that ROKU does have CC with Netflix and thanks

Hi,

I have Apple TV 2 and trying switching in and off closed captionm but no result.

When pressing the middle button I only get the Chapter menu, no selection of languages.

If I try same file with VLC player and can select subtitles without problem.

I used Handbrake

Hi,

I have a hearing disablity and need subtitles and, as we move away from disks to streaming movies, I'm getting hamsrting by the lack of subtitles in online content at places like the iTunes Store (thanks Apple!) It seems from the earlier posts in this thread that some folks are adding cpations to downloaded content. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to do this? Where the you get the subtitles from? Can I do it on movies rented from the iTunes sotre? Do I have to buy the movie?

And where can I effectively I register my dissatisfaction with Apple's seeming disregard for the hearing impaired with regard to iTunes store content?

Thanks in advance,

Steve = : ^ )

Hi Erroll in Sydney

I'm also from Sydney and sympathise with you. I have a few relatives who are hearing impaired.

The problem with Apple TV that my hearing impaired daughter has is that movies she buys through the Apple Store in iTunes do not enable subtitles on Apple TV. Sure, you can see them in iTunes if you click the right buttons and preferences to enable them, but not in Apple TV, despite holding down the central button on the remote to bring up preferences.

I tried to add new subtitles that I downloaded to an Apple-bought movie, but no luck.

The only way to do it is to get the movie from some other source, download subtitles, then mux (blend) the 2 files together with Subler or Handbrake on your Mac. You can try Handbrake on a Windows PC, but I had no luck getting the subtitles to 'stick' through to the Apple TV. The Mac created mp4 files with subtitles worked fine on Apple TV.

Good luck

Jimmy T-Bone

Jimmy,

I am disappointed there aren't more movies with captions in the iTunes store, but the ones that are there, *do* display the captions on my Apple TV. You have to go to Settings>Audio & Video>Closed Captions and change it to 'On'. Then any material that is captioned will display the captions. You can check which movies are captioned at the iTunes store by selecting a movie and looking for the 'cc' logo.

Hope this helps,

Steve = : ^ )

You mean Settings>Audio & Video>Closed Captions in Apple TV? I thought I'd tried that, and it didn't seem to work, but I'll have another go. I find with the movie that I've muxed with subtitles, I turn on cc or subtitles in iTunes, then turn them on again in Apple TV, and everything is hunky dory.

Thanks, Erroll.

I'd like to learn about adding captions to movies. Where do you get the movies from? Where do you get the captions files from? Is tehre a tutorial somewhere on muxing?

Thanks in advance,

Steve = : ^ )

I'm happy to discuss, Steve. Call me 0414509581.

Thanks Jimmy, but my hearing's not good, so the phone is difficult. Would you mind sending me an email at:

steveball2 AT me DOT com ?

Steve = : ^ )

Erroll, because I am hearing impaired, I need subtitles-closed captions for my movies. I am currently creating digital copies of my DVD movies and I have become very aware of movies that do NOT appear to have English subtitles. I say "appear" because you are unable to select English in Audio Setup of that particular movie. BUT my project is definitely going forward despite my being a novice in this area!

First I rip the movie OR whole disk using MDRP (MAC DVD RIPPER PRO) or RIPIT (here whole disk only, since they cannot as yet do the movie with subtitles.) (For those that do have subtitles, I use DVD REMASTER PRO to get soft subtitles.)

I load the ripped movie in HANDBRAKE, & chose mP4 (which produces a movie ending .m4v). In the subtitles tab I discovered two things: 1) an option to Add External .srt file, and 2) when I open the "NONE" bar, it shows me a selections - one of which is CLOSED CAPTIONS (TEXT) (CC), usually the last one. I convert using this selection, and I GET MY subtitles! In this way I've been able to add soft subtitles to an otherwise "no english subtitles" movie. 99% of them are All Caps. ( found one that was upper & lower…praise be..)

However I'm not happy with my subtitles being all caps. It's easier for me to read subitles in upper & lower case…so I continued my search. I found iSUBTITLE which can import subtitles to add to my movie. This led me to http://www.podnapisi.net/ppodnapisi. (There are others to choose from). Here the problem is picking the right file (keep it to .srt) for my movie. HOWEVER, what I have discovered is these files are sloppily done, and in some instances don't even match the spoken word! So I gave up importing subtitle files.

I recently installed an app called iCAPTION. This is a GREAT app. So here's what I'm doing now: I load my ALL CAPS subtitle movie in this app and then I '"create an English subtitle" .srt file. I play the movie until I see the caption word. I hit START; type the words; and continue until the caption ends - then I hit END. I continue playing the movie (literally frame by frame) until the next caption words appear. I hit ADD. and repeat for each subtitle. Now this is very slow moving and tedious. But this is what I want, so I'm willing to do it. I've do far done 3 movies & am in the middle of my 4th.

When I'm done, I open HANDBRAKE & load my .m4v movie (it will take these as well as .dvd media files). In the subtitle tab, I select "Add external .srt file", & I load it, and redo my m4v movie. Looks great. No loss (that I can see) of video or audio quality. Usually I have to "tweek" my .srt file, so when I watch the movie in Quick time, I have my .srt file open as well. And make changes. And in Handbrake redo the movie. etc. until I'm satisfied.

Wow, you're patient, Sharon! Thanks for all the graphic detail, but I'm not sure I could spend that much time to get a good result.

Thanks again,

Steve = : ^ )

Sharon and Erroll

If you can get your hands on a Mac of any kind, you'll find that Handbrake and Subler make life a lot easier for adding subtitles to your movie files. Subler likes to handle mp4 files, Handbrake can handle just about anything. My latest Windows 7 PC version of Handbrake just won't make the subtitles stick, even though I click Subtitles/Import srt file/Default. Macs - no problem.

In Windows or Mac, you can add subtitles in VLC (not permanent) each time you play the movie, by waiting for the movie to play, click on Video (in the top menu)/Subtitles/Add Track and then browse for your srt file that you've cleverly downloaded from some subtitle website. It won't play on Apple TV unless you use some tricky 'streaming VLC' technique which I find to troublesome.

If you need it to play on Apple TV, use the method in the first paragraph and add to iTunes library.

If you are talking about RENTING movies from itunes or Netflix: I've asked representatives from both companies. They say that very few movies have closed captions available. One reason is that the closed captions are copyrighted separately from the movie rental, so that they, the streaming service, doesn't have the rights to show the subtitles (progress, right?).

If people above are talking about CONVERTING their existing DVD's that they own, and which already have subtitles, onto computer hard-drives, using commercially available "ripping" software to extract the subtitles from the DVD's, and then showing the movies with subtitles on their television screen or computer monitor, it would be helpful if they could be clear that this is specifically what they are talking about. The expertise involved sounds formidable and admirable.

I was talking about renting from the iTunes Store. Almost every DVD in the local rental store has closed captions. I don't see how renting from the iTunes store is any different.

Interestingly, since I first posted to this thread, a significantly greater progportion of movies in the iTunes Store has CC, notably the more recent additions. I just checked the first 10 movies in the iTunes Store's 'New & Notewrothy' list, and 8 have CC.

A significantly smaller proportion of TV shows has CC, but that, too, is increasing.

Steve = : ^ )