When I try to load subtitles, it simply downloads and gets stuck. I reported to: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/22186 And there are similar reports in internet (specially related with the upstream VLSub copy, that is a bit older than the VLC one) For now I would change default in our ebuild to use "manual" download instead of broken "save". For that, we could simply change: downloadBehaviour = 'save', to: downloadBehaviour = 'manual', in share/lua/extensions/VLSub.lua That way, at least, people won't get the broken behavior by default Thanks
Sure, just do it.
for some reason it seems to work currently with latest vlc