Appearantly, the Samsung LCD does not like mkv containers which contain subtitles as seperated track. But it can read .srt files, so let’s try to extract them 🙂
$ mkvmerge -i movie.x264.mkv File 'movie.x264.mkv': container: Matroska Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) Track ID 2: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) Track ID 4: audio (A_AC3)
$ mkvextract tracks movie.x264.mkv 2:sub1.srt 3:sub2.srt
And then name the .srt the same as .mkv
$ mv sub1.srt movie.x264.srt
It works 🙂