Watching movies with subtitles from Sony Xperia M4 to LG TV by USB cable?

[Telamon1]

Hi there,

I own a Sony Xperia M4 Aqua black (with android 5.0). With this smarth phone i want to stream movies from my phone (sd card, so locally on my phones hardware) to my TV. Now, if i put a USB cable in and start the standard "video player" it has a TV icon that which i push it will indeed stream from my phone to the tv via the USB cable. However, i cannot get subtitles to show on the TV (neither seperate .srt file or muxed into one .mkv file with MKVToolNix), so i guess that is not supported.

So i went and looked for videoplayer software that supports subtitles. I downloaded MX player, because reviews mostly said it was one of the best, and this one indeed shows even seperate .srt files on my device, however it has no option or icon anywhere to stream it to my television.... (google search gives me only crap about chromecasts and whatnot)

My question is... I have a PHONE, one USB CABLE... and 1 TV (which is a LG 32LV375S), how do i make this combo work?

(and please dont give me answers like buy chromecast, miracast or a friggin hdmi cable or whatnot, i`m not going to buy that, i need a fix for phone/usb/tv combination, i`d like an answer that points me to software like the standard videoplayer (with a tv icon/option) that can indeed stream like i want too but actually supports subtitles). Google doesn't help me, hence i put this question here for a human being to answer instead

Thanks for your time,
/lews

[Uliwooly]

Check this out

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-M4-Aqua/Xperia-Aqua-M4-CONNECT-TO-TV/m-p/1028916/highlight/true...

[Telamon1]

First off, thanks for responding to my question.

But It does not give me a conclusive answer. They say it will be impossible, but i just cannot believe that not one of 500 video players avaiable on the playstore does not have both a TV option and subtitle support. As i said, (and no im NOT a wizard) the standard crappy default video player has this magic TV icon that when i push it, it streams the video to the TV. How? Just by plugging the USB cable in; no chromecast, no expensive apps, no expensive cables, just a phone, a tv and a USB cable and it WORKS.... just not the subtitles.

Is there no soul on this planet that can guide me to EXACTLY such app, but also supporting subtitles? 

If i`m STILL not clear enough, i want someone to answer me like this: "Hey man, download "blabla player", just boot it up, touch the TV icon on the bottom left or whatever and hit play, full subtitle .srt support whatnot, this is what you we`re looking for".

Is there really no one out there that can give me this?

[Uliwooly]

Buy google chromecast and you should be able to have CC 

[YoGem · Accepted solution]

Telamon, the LG 32LV375S support playback, which is a little bit different from streaming, using DLNA. By reading the specification of your TV, the LG 32LV375S does support DLNA and it's Windows 7 certified, and while it's true that Windows 7 was loved and praised by almost all the world, it's also true that the Windows 7 DLNA apparently does not support subtitles.

While DLNA can be customized and compiled by different OEMs, if your TV state W7 Certified, no matter how much you'll try, I am pretty sure that the TV will not be able to show subtitles.

I know you wanted us to spare the "buy a chromecast" but actually, probably that is your only way to accomplish your goal. You may try VLC but I am not sure if that will work or not.

Cheers

[valyo_bg]

I fully agree with this and problem with subtitles is not related to M4 and Sony. Problem is with TV.

[Telamon1]

Thank you YoGem, you`re the first person to make an elaborate answer and explaining why the subs won`t work. That`s all i needed, so i guess i do need a chromecast than. 

[YoGem]

Glad to be of any help.

[valyo_bg]

After you make .mkv file with included sub's using mkvtoolnix, create an .avi with other video processing software. Then subtitles will be "burned" inside new .avi file and you will be able to see them on your TV. Only problem will be time for processing from .mkv (with subtitles) to .avi .