subtitles files linux confusing behaviour.

[Moltke]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life! I'm facing some kind of a situation with subtitle files. When I download a subtitle I usually download it in 2 languages if possible; Spanish and English. Now, whenever I try to do this the system seems to read the 2 files as the same asking me to replace one with the other, I mean, even they're not the same file (i.e subtitle.eng .srt, subtitle.spa .srt) seems like Linux doesn't know the difference between one subtitle being on a different language than the other but only reading the *.srt extension and sees them as the same one, so I have to save both files in different separate folders, otherwise I'm asked to replace the subtitle each time. I'm confused cause I've never ever faced this in Windows. I use subdownloader and vlc vlsubs addon for this as well as google. I googled for this but didn't find anything. It's not like it is a very big problem to me  but I was curious whether any of you guys have ever faced a similar situation and how you solved it if you happened to solve it. Thanks in advance for your answers.      

[trinidad]

I'm guessing you'd need separate directories. Nix file systems do not use dynamic links the way Windows does.

TC

[Moltke]

I'm guessing you'd need separate directories. Nix file systems do not use dynamic links the way Windows does.

TC

Hi [member=5916]trinidad[/member]
Yes, that's what I'm doing, I'm saving subtitles in different directories, by the way, it doesn't seem to be a problem when moving both files into the movie/video folder. Like I said it's not big deal but still, I wanted to know whether there's a way to get Linux to recognize both subtitles on 2 languages as 2 different files rather than one. I guess there's not. Thanks for taking the time to answer!  ;D

[trinidad]

I'd guess Thunar is recognizing the language extension as a system file. You would have to write an exception for files of this specific type, or create either a container or a db partition to store them as is.

TC

[justme2]

Hi Moltke,

Would renaming the files eg. subtitle_eng.srt, subtitle_spa.srt have any effect? Maybe whatever video program you are using is confused by seeing two periods (dots) and is using the first one as the seperator between filename and extension. I can't test this so its just a thought, but I have seen problems caused by two periods within a file name - usually a badly written filename reading routine.

[trinidad]

The .srt extension is a part of the video rip file; which means downloaded from the Internet it can only be processed by VLC or another type video viewer in Linux. Thunar will certainly ignore the extension in normal file manager mode and default to the language extension and thus take that for a potential system file and expect separate directories. There are probably some workable tools for this, but I expect simply adding a container or db partition would eliminate the issue i/e mount and download to one directory within them directly. I would check the VLC board as this may be an already solved issue.

TC

Here:  https://fileinfo.com/extension/srt
and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip
and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska