Congratulations! Your subtitles should now display. This option will not show up if you skip step 9.ġ1. Load the Media Player and play a video, press the Options button on the controller, select CC, and turn on. On your PlayStation 4 go to settings -> Accessibility -> Closed Captions -> Check “Display Closed Captions”.ġ0. You will have to place any video files in a folder on the USB stick in order for the PS4 to recognize them.ĩ. Place this file, named the same as your video file, on to your USB stick. Go to File menu -> Export -> and export the subtitle file as an SRT to convert it.Ĩ. Run Aegisub and open up your subtitle file.ħ. If the file is not an SRT file, continue to step 6.Ħ. If this file extracts as SRT, skip to step 8.

Select the subtitle file, and click extract. Run MKVExtractGUI-2, set the input file to your MKV file.ĥ. Download MKVExtractGUI-2, extract into the directory where you installed mkvtoolnix.Ĥ. Solution 1: Produce MKV file with SRT subtitle for PS4 media player viewingĢ. The following part will show you 2 workable solutions to create video file with SRT subtitle format for PS4 media player viewing.

Therefore, what you need to make sure is that external subtitle file is in SRT format. It won’t be difficult for you to set the external subtitle file name the same as the media file and put it in the same director. – Only external SRT files work, SUB/ASS/SSA/MKS files do not work – You have to have external subtitle file named the same as the media file, in the same director Tips to play video files with subtitles on PS4:

Sony has a built-in a media player for the PlayStation 4 that not only plays a lot of file formats including the increasing popular MKV container but also play the embed subtitles in the files.

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