Subtitle Support in Xbox One Media Player App

It's odd to release a media player without subtitles support in 2014 as this make the player borderline unusable for many users. Hopefully they will come around quickly and add this to next update.

Add your vote here:

xbox.uservoice.com/.../6345301-support-subtitles-in-xbox-one-media-player

Hey CruderBore,

On the Support Forums we, the community, cannot provide any information on future plans.

Your best bet to get this looked into is submit it as feedback over here: http://xbox.uservoice.com/

Let me know if I can be of any more assistance!

This is an old thread, very glad MS proved me wrong on this one. The media capabilities used to be a complete mess, now I havn't had a media file crash in over 4 months.

The native support for MKV is fantastic, it plays most formats within this container (forget about subtitles that aren't hardcoded though), even better than some .avi files - I use PLEX as a remote media server, although the media player app can also run
MKVs off a USB drive or from your networked media player library.

Not sure about DVD/BR support, in my experience the media player app is best utilised running over a network.

Plex Media server has a Mac version, and works great for me (Even though I am using the windows version of the program. This sets up a simple DNLA server without needing Windows Media Player. Plus it will create a nice and handy view for your digital movies
including; Movie Poster, Actors, Directors, Rating, etc.

You don't need to use the Plex App on the Xbox one either, just use the Media Player app. The only caveat, is you can't use subtitles, doesn't matter if it's a separate .SRT file, or an .MKV file with subtitles encased in it.

https://plex.tv/downloads

Hello!

Thanks for reaching out to us here on the forums with this situation. I understand you're having trouble playing subtitles from a MKV file that you have loaded from external storage to your Xbox Console is that correct? The compatibility of the file would
need to be checked from its source. The Xbox One Media Player App may require a different File type for the subtitles to be detected. If you could try different formats you might be able to find the correct one to display from the App.