I recently pirated the Superman 2025 movie as a .mkv which loads captions perfectly fine on GNOME Video Player but my friend couldn't get captions working using VLC on Mac.

Which easy to use media players can I recommend to my friends on Windows and Mac to ensure mkv captions work out of the box for them?

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 41 points 4 days ago

VLC isn't lacking support for this. Are you sure your friend knows how to turn on subtitles?

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 25 points 5 days ago

MPV is pretty much a gold standard for video players, it's a bit more keyboard focused, but basic functionality is fully accessible through the GUI.

But I don't think VLC should struggle with embedded subtitles. Maybe you can feed your video file to ffprobe and share the output for a bit of troubleshooting?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

I had some issues with mkv files on VLC a few weeks back (same files worked fine in Haruna), but they seem to be working ok for me now.