Sample Mkv File With Subtitles

[Aila Gilb]

Thislooks like a bad rip issue, not a Kodi bug. The sample provided did not have working subs in any other player I tested it with. I tried remuxing the file but that did not make the subs work. Oddly enough the sub and idx files were intact enough that I could get an online converter to spit out a working srt so the information is actually there. I think fixing a bad sub rip is a bit out of scope for this forum though.

I'm not kidding when I say the sub plans are simple: there are just three ingredients, only one of which I need to create from scratch each time. It has been my experience that these three ingredients help both my substitute teachers and my students experience successful days when I'm away.

The core idea beneath these sub plans is that the substitute's responsibility ought to be as small as possible, and the students' responsibility ought to be high. I do this through the use of a Google Doc, a Google Slideshow, and a simple video shot on my phone and posted to YouTube.

Perhaps your school is different, but in my school not all substitute teachers are created equal. I'm blessed to have a pretty fair warning of my absences before they happen, and this means I get a shot at the best quality substitutes in town (e.g., this year my students have had only one substitute so far, and she is wonderful and cares about the kids). But back when I was new to this school and this town, I didn't always know the quality of the substitute I would be getting, and so I learned to make my sub plans very simple.

Obviously, the link here isn't super helpful, but I leave my computer on when I know I'll be gone and I leave the slide show and the sub plans pulled up in Chrome so that the sub can find them, ready to rock.

Then, I go into the slide show for the day that I'll be gone (as I share in the School Year Starter Kit, I use a slide show for every day of the school year; it is far from comprehensive, but it does what I need it to do), and I reduce it to three slides per class:

It's important to note that warm-ups are an everyday exercise, from the first day to the last. When students walk in, they know that the bell will be our boss as to when we start, and that when the bell rings we get going on the warm-up task(s) that I have on-screen. I have to do a good deal of teaching on the criticality of every class minute early on in the school year, but it pays off in creating a culture where we get started on the educationally valuable work on-screen. The most common warm-up we do is some kind of 100-word quickwrite (e.g., the first slide in Figure 2).

This last piece might be the most important because it gets rid of confusion, brings me into the room, and lends a strong sense of continuity between when I was last in class and today. The video I embed in the slide show is very simple: I do a single take of myself speaking into my smart phone's camera and explaining the day's lesson. Here is one of the videos used in the sample slide show in Figure 2:

In short, I'm not going to be the next Hollywood teacher movie hero because I make epic, interactive videos for sub plans. Rather, videos are just the most efficient means through which I can speak directly to my students about a given lesson when I'm away.

Much like the Before Reading component of the Nine Moves for Teaching with Texts, in this video I consider what might be needed to hook the kids and, especially, how I might establish purpose for them. In the sample sub plan used throughout this post, kids were going to be spending most of the class period working in partners to create questions for quizzing themselves on course material. In the Stu Vid, then, I wanted to explain to them why this was a good use of their time and how exactly they were to do it.

I hope this post and the materials within it help. Feel free to make copies of anything and modify as you like. If you found the post helpful, share the love with someone else you know. Have a good day ?

I was curious so did a sample file with french subtitles, after a few tries I managed it. Load your movie in DVDStyler and right click on it to get to the properties. Click on the green plus sign and load your subtitles, then click OK. Repeat for each .srt file you want.

Next make a sub-title menu by choosing add menu, and tick the box subtitle in the menu's properties, then OK. Now on that menu, make as many links as you have subtitle files loaded and one for no subtitles. Name them accordingly. Now target each link to the correct subtitle option on the movie(track 1, track 2, etc) or off for the original.

Hello Peate9,

Thanks so much for the detailed instructions. Followed your instructions

carefully, but I get syntax errors.

The movie (title 1) is on "Titleset 1". Added to the movie properties two

subtitles ; one English and bellow it one Hebrew. Added a menu for the

subtitles. Added a button on the VMGM menu 1 linked to the subtitles menu.

Now on the subtitle menu added first button for the English subtitle, and

when I opened properties of this button, whatever I write there, I get

syntax errors. (The English subtitle is Track 1).

There is not any option to select 'track' so I use the second row (custom),

as you can see on attached screenshot. From here on cannot go further. What

is wrong? please.

Answers will be appreciates.

Thanks

Motim

I was curious so did a sample file with french subtitles, after a few

tries I managed it. Load your movie in DVDStyler and right click on it to

get to the properties. Click on the green plus sign and load your

subtitles, then click OK. Repeat for each .srt file you want. It will take

a while to load, be patient.

Next make a sub-title menu by choosing add menu, and tick the box subtitle

in the menu's properties, then OK. Now on that menu, make as many links as

you have subtitle files loaded and one for no subtitles. Name them

accordingly. Now target each link to the correct subtitle option on the

movie(track 1, track 2, etc) or off for the original.

Hello peate9,

Thanks again for your assistance. Finally found it and it worked. Just as

selecting the (any) subtitle, it starts to play the movie. But I made some

experiment: Copied the buttons from the subtitle-menu to the VMGM main

menu, checked if they still are linked to the subtitles (nothing changed),

deleted the subtitles-menu and let it make a test dvd. It did not play any

subtitle even selecting one. What is wrong ?

Answers will be appreciated.

Thanks

Motim

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