totem-gstreamer should detect srt files by default

Ah sorry it seems the I encoded it into AVI format with the extension MP4 by mistake. But even so, when renamed to movie.avi I still have the same problem.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in gstreamer.

I encounter this problem too. It doesn't detect the srt file automatically, and manually specifying by right clicking on the playlist item then manually selecting the subtitle does not work either.

+1 here, and it used to work in gutsy

Still present on current Intrepid.

totem-gstreamer/intrepid uptodate 2.23.91-0ubuntu1

I have got the same problem with totem-gstreamer in arch 64

i was about to fill a report concerning the fact that Totem preferences in Ubuntu 8.10 should have "automatically load subtitles" activated by default
i had to manually activate it
i don't understand that choice
Maybe this is related to this report ?

see also bug #195887 & bug #160518

You're right, enabling that option correctly displays the subtitles. This should definitely be enabled by default.

this is already fixed upstream with 2.25.X , text subtitles are already detected by default and are available trough the View->Subtitles menu. you can read more about it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499463; thanks for reporting.

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.25.3-0ubuntu1

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totem (2.25.3-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
   Interface changes: (LP: #303045)
    - Make the left-click seek directly to the destination
    - Hide colour balance sliders that aren't available (LP: #282073)
    - Make modifiers work as expected when drag'n'dropping files
    - Use "Movie Player" everywhere in the interface
    - Add an arrow to the sidebar button (LP: #260534)
    - Convert British English messages to American English
    - Show the fullscreen popups when seeking with the keyboard (LP: #48751)
    - Better behaviour when changing the type of playlist to be saved
    - Fix playlist problems when removing an file that was deleted
      from the filesystem
   Subtitle handling:
    - Add plugin to download text subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org
    - Allow selecting a text subtitle from the View menu, or by dropping
      the file onto the video widget (LP: #160518)
    - Add the subtitle and languages menus to the fullscreen popup
   Browser plugin:
    - Remove the "basic" web browser plugin, we now use the same
      API as VideoLAN for our default plugin
    - Fix relativbzre paths not resolving in some cases
    - Fix repeat=true only playing files twice
   Plugins:
    - Add Jamendo plugin
    - Add support for streaming TV from MythTV (LP: #278748)
    - Fix YouTube movie playback following website changes
    - Make the local search and YouTube search sidebars look more alike
    - Add proper mute support for remote controls
    - Fix the metadata-updated signal to be useful
   Build:
    - Remove libgnome dependency
    - Remove NVTV support
    - Use g_timeout_add_seconds() when possible
   GStreamer backend:
    - Require the rsndvdbin plugin for DVD playback
    - Add zoom support
    - Fix some files not giving us metadata with the video indexer
    - Fix the video window getting bigger than the screen (LP: #221795)
    - When streaming, the pause button stops
   Other:
    - Add ability to create a gallery image using the video thumbnailer
      (LP: #282435)
  * Update debian/watch to take unstable GNOME version
  * debian/control.in:
    - add Vcs-Bzr tag
    - remove libgnome2-dev, libgnomeui-dev and libgnome-keyring-dev as b-d
      as upstream does not depend anymore from libgnome
  * Adapt patches to new configure.in:
    - debian/patches/02_lpi.patch
    - debian/patches/65_bbc-plugin.patch
  * Re-regenate debian/patches/70_autotools.patch and debian/control

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:20:37 +0100