So far the journey continues… my current conclusion:
- Playing AVI directly on iPad — CineXPlay, just copy both AVI & SRT… voila!
- Ripping DVD to M4V files using Handbrake, with soft subtitle… was problematic … more on this below…
Here’s the setting that I use for Handbrake. Correctly choose which subtitle language, not selecting “Burned In” (Burned in is the last resort, when everything fails… it’s proven to work).
Here’s the available “tracks” inside the m4v file (output of Subler). There’s that mp4s track which contains the subtitle.
Quicktime Player (both on Mac and on the iDevice) didn’t recognize the “mp4s” track which Handbrake created inside the m4v file.
Here’s for your reference the subtitle track that can be recognized by both Quicktime Player and iPad’s default Video Player. For this particular file, I manually embed a SRT file using Subler.
Trying another media player on Mac (VLC to be exact, version 1.1.11), the Mulan video file that Handbrake created works just fine. Subs can be correctly displayed or hidden when we choose to.
On the iPad, it is different though. Another media player, e.g. my newly found fave’s, CineXPlayer, still can’t display & detect any subtitle in that same file.
Eventually I’ll figure it out how to embed a soft subtitle when ripping DVD…. but now I think I’ll settle with “Burned In” subtitle. It’s Korean Drama, so always need a subtitle. Hard-coded it is.
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