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IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK.
Jun. 22nd, 2015 01:07 amThe damn subtitles exist in the .mkv why is it so fucking difficult to get from there to a .mp4 that has the fucking subtitles in? I just want to watch PGSM on my Kindle Fire, is that really so much to ask?
I did figure out how to extract the subtitles from the .mkv, thank you Google, so I should have a subtitled .mp4 momentarily, but I'm going to have to copy all fifty-three .mkv files to a folder with a less lengthy address and also rename the files to have less lengthy names, because the extraction tool is command line and I had to try several times to make it extract the subtitles because I kept typoing.
Oh hey, Avidemux is finished...oh fuck. It did not work how it was supposed to work. But at least I have the .mp4 with video and audio and the .srt with subtitles and can now put them both on the Kindle and see if VLC for Fire makes them play nice together?
...which would work better if the Kindle played nice with the computer!
...oh, okay, it's the USB hub the Kindle doesn't play nice with. Plugging directly into a port on the computer seems to work.
THIS ISN'T WORKING. There does not seem to be any way to get the Kindle to acknowledge that the .srt is on it. Or the .ssa that Avidemux insisted on making, either. Which means I am back to attempting to persuade Avidemux to hardcode the subtitles which is what it said it was doing in the first fucking place but you'd think I'd at least get softcoded subtitles out of using the add-subtitles filter. Softcoded subtitles I could probably make work with VLC for Fire!
Fuck it. I have been at this for two hours and hardly any of that was sit-and-wait-for-processing time. And it is one am. I am going to bed.
Wait, hang on. Does VLC for Fire play .mkv?
Yes it does! Subtitles and all! I am not limited to .mp4 on Kindle Fire anymore! JOY RAPTURE CELEBRATION!
I'm still going to bed, though. Those were a frustrating couple hours for what is now no apparent reason.
I did figure out how to extract the subtitles from the .mkv, thank you Google, so I should have a subtitled .mp4 momentarily, but I'm going to have to copy all fifty-three .mkv files to a folder with a less lengthy address and also rename the files to have less lengthy names, because the extraction tool is command line and I had to try several times to make it extract the subtitles because I kept typoing.
Oh hey, Avidemux is finished...oh fuck. It did not work how it was supposed to work. But at least I have the .mp4 with video and audio and the .srt with subtitles and can now put them both on the Kindle and see if VLC for Fire makes them play nice together?
...which would work better if the Kindle played nice with the computer!
...oh, okay, it's the USB hub the Kindle doesn't play nice with. Plugging directly into a port on the computer seems to work.
THIS ISN'T WORKING. There does not seem to be any way to get the Kindle to acknowledge that the .srt is on it. Or the .ssa that Avidemux insisted on making, either. Which means I am back to attempting to persuade Avidemux to hardcode the subtitles which is what it said it was doing in the first fucking place but you'd think I'd at least get softcoded subtitles out of using the add-subtitles filter. Softcoded subtitles I could probably make work with VLC for Fire!
Fuck it. I have been at this for two hours and hardly any of that was sit-and-wait-for-processing time. And it is one am. I am going to bed.
Wait, hang on. Does VLC for Fire play .mkv?
Yes it does! Subtitles and all! I am not limited to .mp4 on Kindle Fire anymore! JOY RAPTURE CELEBRATION!
I'm still going to bed, though. Those were a frustrating couple hours for what is now no apparent reason.