Note many media players can be weirdly picky about the precise formatting of your external SRT subtitle file. The latter can be very feature-rich and play a wider variety of cutting-edge video formats, but may require some technical chops and geekery to set up.
#Usb media player android
The other options available today are either junky/disappointing generic boxes, or somewhat complex "roll your own" players running off Android or Raspberry Pi. IMO, if you just want a simple load the video and push play solution for video files, nothing beats a good new or used BluRay player with media player functionality. A/V quality is excellent, and its nice to have the option of playing video files from either USB or a disc.
#Usb media player mp4
These tend to work very well but have not kept up with evolving changes to the MP4 and MKV formats (IOW, they fail to play a lot of video files released in the past six or seven years).Īfter trying several generic media players and been very disappointed by the video quality, I opted to use a BluRay disc player with USB port.
There were some excellent brand-name media players until seven or eight years ago, when their mfrs decided not to compete with the low-priced generics. Most are generic Chinese imports, it can be difficult to find reliable reviews on their audio/video quality or features (you have to test them yourself). There are many many different media players available via web dealers. Pretty much any media player should automatically read and play the sub along with the video. Copy the MP4 and SRT files to your USB stick, then change the name of the SRT to match the MP4 exactly (""). If desired you can turn it on and off with either a dedicated sub button on the remote or via a popup menu (depends on the player user interface).Īs an example, say you have a video named "4" and a subtitle file named "Adventure. ". Upon loading, the media player will sense the external sub and automatically play it with the video. You name the subtitle file exactly the same as the video file and put them in the same folder (or openly on the USB stick). Since all you apparently want to do is play one pre-selected external sub, I don't think you'll have any problems since this is a standard feature of every standalone player I've ever used. Sorry, it wasn't clear in your original post that you had not yet really tried any standalone players, so I assumed you meant you wanted to overcome their typical one-sub-at-a-time limitation (a lot of people ask about that). What are they called ? Where would I get one ? What would be a typical price ? I'm in Sydney Australia, in case that is relevant to 'where'. "most hardware media players will then recognize both subs" I searched with Google and could not find a 'Media Player', but I could find ONE in Ebay, so I am quite intrigued by 'most'. As for having 'exactly the same name', I happy to arrange that beforehand. I want a solution to MY problem, and that does not involve 'selecting on the fly' I'm quite happy to select the appropriate subtitle file before I put the video on the USB but once it is there AS A SEPARATE FILE, I want to be able to tell the 'gadget' to play it. This trick only works with MKV video files: MP4 and AVI do not support embedded, selectable subs so you would be back to the singe external sub limitation with those formats. But this is limited to just two different subs (one internal and one external) unless your MKV includes multiple additional internal subs. So if your MKV file includes an internal English sub, you can bundle an external French etc sub file with it in the same folder and most hardware media players will then recognize both subs, letting you choose between them on the the fly. Most hardware players will load both the embedded subs and one external sub file you pair with the video file. You can kinda/sorta fudge on-the-fly sub switching if the video file is an MKV with one or more internal embedded subs. Gets the job done, but obviously not very convenient if you want to spontaneously alternate between hearing impaired/normal or constant/forced only or English/French. You would need to pick which of the several sub files you want for that viewing session, rename it to match the video file, and put it in the same folder. You can choose among different subtitles ahead of viewing, but cannot choose on the fly.
They usually follow the rule that any external subtitle must be named exactly the same as the video file and be contained in the same folder with it.
#Usb media player software
This particular feature of PC software players like VLC (ability to select among multiple external subtitle files on the fly) is very very rare in standalone hardware media players (at least, I've never seen one that could do it).
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