The way to do this is not have all your video files and subtitles in the same folder. I have all my movie files in their own folders with their subtitles. TV shows seasons are in their own folder, with each episode having it's own SRT file. Sounds like you need to better organize the files on your computer.

PowerDVD used to only read the file if it was named exactly the same at the video file, but I found that to be too strict. I like the way it is done now. So you either have to reorganize your files, or turn subtitles on or off when you don't need.

Dave

Thanks, Dave, for your input. I'm afraid I can't agree with you that PDVD 19 has got it right at all. To me it makes perfect sense to have subtitle files with precisely the same name as the video file (there is an obvious 1-to-1 correspondence) and for the video player to recognize this correspondence and select the subtitle file at play time automatically. It seems obvious to me, also, that should there be no corresponding subtitle file then the video player ignores all subtitle files it finds. I think earlier versions of PDVD (16, 17?) used to do this.

Your response suggests that there is no way of doing what I asked - automatic selection of subtitle file and ignoring all subtitle files where there is no match. I'm considering either finding another video player that uses straightforward logic in handling subtitle files, or using a video editor that allows me to embed the subtitle file within the video for playing in PDVD. It seems to me that all PDVD needs to do is ignore all subtitle files where there is no match.

Another problem I have found is that sometimes the subtitle facility in PDVD selects "SubtitleHandler - [English]" and displays all dialog as subtitles. This is a considerable nuisance as one needs to turn off subtitles for this video, necessitating turning them on again for the next video that has a subtitle file.

Paul.

Well, it's been a week since my last post and no one from Cyberlink, or any other contributor, has made comment on my, I believe, quite reasonable expectation for PDVD 19 to use (and not use) subtitle files. At the moment, MediaMonkey looks a whole lot more logical in its use of subtitle files, is free, and it has a library system (albeit, not as well organized as PDVD). Unless PDVD gets a more usable method of working with subtitle files, I'll refrain from further updates. Frankly, PDVD 19's handling of subtitle files is in a mess!

Quote Well, it's been a week since my last post and no one from Cyberlink, or any other contributor, has made comment on my, I believe, quite reasonable expectation for PDVD 19...

Hello,

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